Nonilex , to random
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files suit challenging 's ban on funding for

The ACLU of MI has filed a challenge to the state's ban on , arguing the violates the to that MI voters enshrined in the state constitution in Nov 2022.


https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/27/aclu-files-suit-challenging-michigans-ban-on-medicaid-funded-abortions/74232218007/

Nonilex OP ,
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The filing on behalf of in the Court of Claims comes 2 days after a judge in the SAME COURT blocked enforcement of other state on abortion in an order that found the state's 24-hr waiting period, requirements & a ban on performed by advance practice clinicians violated the state's voter-approved .

Nonilex OP ,
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The -led Legislature had attempted last yr to repeal the ban on funded by , the state's program for residents. But a no vote from one Democratic House member from Detroit foiled the effort in the lower chamber, where hold a slim 56-54 majority.

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Bonsitu Kitaba, deputy dir for the of , argued MI's ban on coverage for creates a "two-tiered system" between those who can afford for terminating a pregnancy & those who cannot. The deprivation, Kitaba said, infringes on the fundamental right to & is since Medicaid covers but not abortion.

pvonhellermannn , to random
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This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

pvonhellermannn OP ,
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🧵 7/n Now something different - this really is a rag bag, really just adding things as they come along, occur to me, no careful crafting! Just things that enable you to trace and understand how money flows to the rich, how accumulation works. So here, a piece, with this fantastic map, of second homes in the UK, in in particular. Key arena of widening

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/06/were-on-a-cliff-edge-cornish-village-where-52-of-houses-are-not-first-homes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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