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In light of the draft of a leaked majority Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, I want to call your attention to the people that would be impacted most by the end of legalized abortion across the United States. 🧵:
Leah Feiger
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Leah Feiger
@LeahFeiger
director of politics and science @wired | @leahfeiger dot bsky dot social alum @vicenews @theatlantic and elsewhere | dm for signal
Joined August 2013
- Exclusive: VICE World News has obtained WhatsApp messages and voice notes sent by Andrew Tate to a woman who accused him of a 2013 rape, including a message from Tate that said ‘I love raping you.’ She said authorities declined to prosecute.
- SCOOP: America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. WILD story from @JakeLahut:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerIt's about Lizelle Herrera, a woman in Texas who was arrested last month for murder for what officials called “a self-induced abortion." Her indictment was later dismissed, but this is a scary beginning:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerRenee Chelian was 15 when she got an illegal abortion in a dirty Detroit warehouse before Roe v Wade. Now, she’s terrified others will experience something similar: via @carter_sherman:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerIt's the young people cut out of decision making for their bodies:
- NEW: Black canvassers Elon Musk’s America PAC were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were then fired after WIRED reported on their plight—without full pay or a way back home. scoop from @JakeLahut:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerIt's the people that will continue to help others get abortions -- even as they face serious legal or financial repercussions:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerIt's anyone that disagrees or is terrified by the growing overlap between anti-abortion activism and far-right extremism:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerFor people living in states that want to go to a planned parenthood, and don't want the people setting fire to their abortion clinics or health care providers to be emboldened further:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerWe won't stop reporting on this; don't turn away.
- Replying to @LeahFeigerIt's about everyone already fleeing to other states to get abortions, and those that can't afford to:
- Replying to @LeahFeigerIt's about Jasmine, who, after being turned away from a Texas clinic, went to Oklahoma for an abortion:
