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half-moon-rising.bsky.social
#Abortion #StateLaws #BodilyAutonomy
Bodily autonomy is foundational to democracy & self government.
Fighting anti abortion laws is critical to the fight against fascism.
pregnancyjust.bsky.social Pregnancy Justice @pregnancyjust.bsky.social · Apr 29
➡️ At least 24 states have anti-abortion laws with language related to “fetal rights,” giving fertilized eggs, embryos, & fetuses rights. They may not mention abortion, but they are central to bans.

More from legal director @amazonatty.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/2092...
The Terrifying Convergence of Fetal Personhood Laws and Abortion Bans A Georgia woman was charged with murder for an alleged abortion. “Fetal personhood” laws may be as much to blame as the state’s abortion ban. Melissa Gira Grant April 20, 2026 Commonly referred to as the Georgia six-week-abortion ban or “heartbeat” ban, the state’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act goes much further. The LIFE Act stipulates that an “unborn child” becomes a legal person within weeks of conception, and then elaborates that “no abortion is authorized or shall be performed” on an “unborn child,” so defined. “The ban is a fetal personhood ban,” said Karen Thomspon, legal director at Pregnancy Justice, an organization defending the rights of pregnant people against pregnancy criminalization. To grant a fetus legal rights, she said, is to say that “the state has more interest in the fetus than in the pregnant person.” The case against Moore does concern the state’s abortion ban, but it’s this element of the law—the idea that an embryo or fetus is a legal person, a fiction invented to ban abortion—that police may have had in mind as justification for their charges against her. “You don’t have to make abortion illegal,” Thompson emphasized. “You just make it so untenable, or so dangerous, or so carceral,” that it becomes an impossible risk to take. It is likely that with both the push for fetal personhood and against medication abortion, we will see more cases like this recent one in Georgia. This isn’t so much a consequence of Dobbs or of any particular abortion ban, but of multiple anti-abortion strategies long in play now converging, fueling police and prosecutors’ confidence in making these types of arrests and bringing these types of cases. There’s a “casualness” to exposing a pregnant person’s life, as Moore’s has been, Thompson said, “blasting their faces in mugshots all across the world, for things that are really at their core poor lawyering and misogyny.” At bottom, the state has an interest in controlling women, punishing them for being pregnant the wrong way, or punishing the wrong women for being pregnant. “We are going to continue to fight to make sure that people are getting the care they need,” Thompson said. “That care is just not in the courts.”
April 29, 2026 at 3:23 PM
rhopper03.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2024/12/13/t...

And it begins… #abortionrights #statelaws #txvny
Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman
This case sets up a legal battle between Texas’ near-total abortion ban and New York’s shield law that protects doctors from out-of-state prosecution.
www.texastribune.org
December 14, 2024 at 10:27 PM
potculturemagazine.com
#DumbLaws: In Oklahoma, owning a grinder with a kief screen could be seen as felony hash manufacturing. Your basic tool just became a big no-no. 🔍🚫 #PotCultureMagazine #Overregulation #Cannabis #Oklahoma #WeedLaws #CannabisCulture #Grinder #CannabisCommunity #KiefScreen #Weed #StateLaws
February 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
fleetheogre.bsky.social
#California #voterrights #midterm #trumpCrimefamily #gopcorruption #statelaws
June 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
thedomainauction.bsky.social
AbsolutelyLaw.Com
#Police #StateLaws #DashCams #LawEnforcement #Harassment #BodyCams #Videos #Congress #Senate #Harassment #AbusiveLaws #PoliceBrutality #Court #Law #DomainSales
July 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
dirkvdberg68.bsky.social
We could see this a long way coming, and not just in Florida.

That is also why the DOE is being terminated, so that Republican governors can write statelaws to allow kids to drop out of school when they are needed at the workplace.
March 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
emilykeehn.bsky.social
The #trans experience in America is wondering every 4 years if your rights are in jeopardy.

Does anyone with knowledge of how #StateLaws and #NationalLaws interact know if state protections will come before national persecution? For example NY mandates that #GenderAffirmingCare is covered by (1/2)
December 23, 2024 at 4:56 PM
gplarsen.bsky.social
He is throwing read meat into the ring, hoping for a lynchmop. Don't take.

Focus!

Statelaws! Courts! Collaboration!

...oh and Epstein 🤭
October 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
17 arrested, more than 50 dead roosters discovered in #Provo cockfighting bust

#Utah #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #Cockfighting #Crime #AnimalCruelty #Animals #AnimalWelfare #AnimalLaw #StateLaws #AnimalRescue #AnimalRights #Drones

#SHARK
tips@sharkonline.org

www.ksl.com/article/5141...
Seventeen people have been arrested in Utah County following the discovery of an illegal cockfighting operation, according to police. (Yevhen Prozhyrko, Shutterstock)
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
monriatitans.bsky.social
@legaleagle.tv & Marc Lopez | LegalEagle: "Marijuana Law Blows" | #BestFriendAdvice #LegalSystem #StateLaws #FederalLaw #PleadThe5th #Authoritarianism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJA...
Marijuana Law Blows
YouTube video by LegalEagle
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April 21, 2026 at 1:52 AM
jordfran.bsky.social
It's an important day in state privacy law as both the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act and youth privacy amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act go into effect.

⏩ Looking to stay on top of all these state laws? See FPF's effective dates chart at fpf.org/statelaws.
Key Dates for State Privacy Laws – Future of Privacy Forum
A significant new chapter for data privacy protections in the United States has commenced as more than twenty recently enacted significant state privacy laws have taken effect by July 1, 2025. To assi...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
whiskeymoosebok.bsky.social
@mikedewine.bsky.social do your damn job properly, and take actual care of your constituents for once.
#mikedewineiscorrupt #suethestate #Ohio #clusterfuck2025 #ohiostatehouse #thisisbullshit #sickofthisstate #pandemicunemploymentinsurance #theydontcareaboutus #statelaws #fuckmikedewine #900million
February 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
maejab.bsky.social
Will ‘OLIGARCHISM’ & FACISM replace our Democracy,Constitution, StateLaws,JudicialJustice & even imperfect Capitalism? The answer must start now in Congress,in the streets,w/big platforms &NOV2026🙏‼️
@ms.now @maddow.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
themestimes.bsky.social
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order designed to prevent states from enacting their own AI regulations, warning that states could face consequences for passing laws deemed too strict.

#AIRegulations #TrumpExecutiveOrder #TechInnovation #StateLaws #CivilRights
December 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
monriatitans.bsky.social
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social | More Perfect Union: "Dentists Expose Why Dental Insurance Is A Scam" | #JordanZakarin #HealthCare #DentalSupportOrganization #PrivateEquity #AspenDentalManagement #DeltaDental #DiscountCoupon #StateLaws #PartialFixes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwN-...
Dentists Expose Why Dental Insurance Is A Scam
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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April 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
triagecancer.org
New Medicaid work requirements are coming, and they may affect eligibility, exemptions, and coverage for some people enrolled through Medicaid Expansion. We've also launched a new Chart of State Medicaid Work Requirements. Learn more: TriageCancer.org/blog & TriageCancer.org/Statelaws
June 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
chironseye.bsky.social
Since Biden just signed the #NDAA into law, for all my fellow #Transgender & #queer folks here in #NewYork, here is a page listing #Statelaws for #Stateprotections that will prove to be useful in multiple areas of life.
Keep fighting.

www.localsyr.com/news/state-n...
New laws in New York for 2025
From shampoo bottles to holograms to nipple tattoos, check a selection of out what’s new and taking effect right away in 2025.
www.localsyr.com
December 26, 2024 at 4:58 AM
nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy
As for the part of the #law that lets people sue #federal agents for violations of the #illinois #Constitution, the 2 professors wrote, “that provision won’t stand” under the #supremacyclause.

Still, Vikram Amar said, such #statelaws can serve a larger purpose.

“In the spirit of #federalism […]
Original post on masto.ai
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February 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
americurious.bsky.social
americurious.com/why-do-us-al...
#AlcoholLaws #DryCounty #USTravel #RoadTripUSA #21stAmendment #ProhibitionHistory #StateLaws #LiquorLawsUSA #AmericanHistory #TravelTips #KnowBeforeYouGo #RelocationTips #CuriousAmerica #Americurious #StateLine #TravelFacts #DidYouKnow #USARoadTrip #TravelSmart
Why Do US Alcohol Laws Vary So Wildly By State? The 1933 Answer, Explained - AmeriCurious
US alcohol laws vary by state because the 21st Amendment, ratified December 5, 1933, repealed national Prohibition and handed almost all regulatory power over
americurious.com
August 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM
tactlesslytruthful.bsky.social
Again
Please meditate, pray, Incant, whatever for Oklahomans.
Ask that this bill is NOT Passed!
It WILL put EVERY LAST PERSON IN JAIL‼️
AUTOMATICALLY‼️
(Don't Think They Won't Use It Retroactively!)

#Rights #HumanRights #WomensRights #MensRights #StateLaws

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Replying to @Dawn Dugle - Romance Author 2/5/25. addressing your questions about #SB539 (I said the wrong number in the video.) #BookTok #spicybooktok
TikTok video by Dawn Dugle - Romance Author
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February 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
dkn60.bsky.social
ASPCA
Paid for by ASPCA
The HouseofReps just passed a FarmBill includes language to invalidate existing stateandlocal farm animalwelfare laws. This would erasecurrent statelaws banning extreme confinement of farmanimals/prevent states from enacting any inthe future/putting billionsof animals at risk
September 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
jolororo.bsky.social
#StateLaws DO NOT APPLY…

#ICEDetentionCenters
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.
www.wired.com
August 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
potculturemagazine.com
Tomorrow at 10 AM CST. Kentucky can recognize terminal illness, issue the card, and still leave bedside access up to the facility. #PotCultureMagazine #MedicalCannabis #Kentucky #Cannabis #CannabisCommunity #News #CannabisCulture #LegalWeed #Policy #StateLaws
Teaser image for “Kentucky’s Hospital Cannabis Problem” showing a hospital room with a medical cannabis card, prescription bottle, patient wristband, and a sign banning cannabis on hospital property, including medical cannabis. The image frames the conflict between Kentucky medical cannabis access and hospital policy, with Pot Culture Magazine logo, PotCultureMagazine.com, and ©2026/ArtDept visible.
July 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
repeatablerobot.bsky.social
New state laws are reshaping a heated debate over medical care for minors. This video covers the push to restrict certain gender affirming treatments for kids and the legal fights around it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TL_... #Politics #StateLaws #CivicsExplained #Policy
Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
The Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation Executive Order (EO 14187), signed by President Donald J. Trump on January 28, 2025. This government policy aims to stop medical…
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July 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM