Abortion in Texas: the court decides, the state decides, she doesn't decide
I thought, when I was thinking about this post last night, that I would be writing some relatively good news. And “relative” is all it is – it’s not exactly good news, is it, when a court intervenes to give a woman permission to have reproductive healthcare because a state’s abortion ban is now so extreme that even the fact the foetus has a fatal anomaly…
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5 months ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Sian Norris
Could we have a writer writing about radical goodness once in a while? Not to ignore the doom, but to find a passable alternative to escape to?? Just for a few minutes? Thank you for considering this.
With regards to Thor Benson and his piece "How Trump might go after the Press" you might be interested to know that while he occupied the WH in January 2018 his administration made a request to the producers of the movie "The Post" which focused on the now historic efforts of the press in the early 70s to print the classified information it had come into possession of from the late Daniel Ellsberg. The request stated that the WH wanted to show it at both the WH and Camp David.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/05/trump-white-house-to-screen-spielberg-pro-media-drama-the-post