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Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

If you missed this one, shame on you for six weeks!

Mike Lange

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1 year ago

I support that a state should be able to design their path, right? We shouldn’t have national abortion bans. I disagree with six weeks vehemently, of course, that’s a horrible position to be. And it’s upsetting a lot of folks, because a lot of Republicans are realizing it’s going to hurt our message and hurt our ability to win states.

Chris Sununu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no Republican candidate that will get the support of the pro-life movement, evangelicals, Catholics and secular people who support the pro-life cause who rejects such a limit (of 15 weeks).

Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So here is our plan: In the coming weeks, the House will vote on the bill to lift the debt ceiling into the next year, save taxpayers trillions of dollars, make us less dependent on China, curb our inflation, all without touching social security and Medicare.

Speaker McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It can take days to weeks to months to process tragedy, reach out for support, listen to each other’s feelings, and set boundaries around how much you’re taking in of current crises.

Shairi Turner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The major parties in Khartoum, some weeks ago reached a very important framework agreement on how to proceed with a transition to civilian government. And there’s been real progress in trying to move that forward.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For weeks, we would bring the nicest banana we could find in Berlin to the zoo, and she would always just straight eat it, there was some head scratching done. and we gradually figured out that it’s only brownish bananas that she peels. She never peels a beautiful yellow one.

Michael Brecht

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You very well could see that catalyst over the next couple of weeks with earnings, and then this inflation data and then what the Fed says when they meet.

Megan Horneman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If two people object, we are back on the basic rule … which says we have to wait four weeks. But, if we don’t get that many objections, then we can suspend the rules … and we can vote tonight, and my guess is, if we do that, the council will vote to send Rep. Justin Jones right back to the Tennessee State House.

Jim Shulman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At some point, [their offensives] are likely to culminate, they will need to decide whether they assume a more defensive posture in the coming weeks in order to absorb or respond to any Ukrainian offensives.

Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve had this weird pause over the last three weeks where analysts haven’t been updating earnings estimates because of the banking turmoil. Those are undoubtedly going to come, there’s currently a false sense of security that things won’t change, but a lot of the data under the surface is probably pointing towards higher odds of recession. This is not a favorable starting point for stocks as we think about the next few months.

Patrick Kaser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hundreds of thousands of pregnant people will be forced to travel out of state to seek the care they need. Many people will not even know they are pregnant by six weeks, and for those who do, it is unlikely they will be able to schedule the legally required two in-person doctor’s appointments before six weeks of pregnancy.

Kara Gross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This bill will unfairly and disproportionately impact people who live in rural communities, people with low incomes, people with disabilities, and people of color, hundreds of thousands of pregnant people will be forced to travel out of state to seek the care they need. Many people will not even know they are pregnant by six weeks, and for those who do, it is unlikely they will be able to schedule the legally required two in-person doctor’s appointments before six weeks of pregnancy.

Kara Gross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think some of the most unpleasant moments of my life occurred during the last two weeks, and of course, also some of the most pleasant.

Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have come to the realization in recent weeks that a globally active, systemically important bank cannot simply be wound up according to the ‘too big to fail’ plan, legally, this would be possible. In practice, however, the economic damage would be considerable.

Karin Keller-Sutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The speaker’s letter was not him sitting in a vacuum, the speaker’s letter reflected weeks of dialogue. … Our input was translated into that letter.

Garret Graves

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Economic uncertainty continues to bring mortgage rates down, over the last several weeks, declining rates have brought borrowers back to the market but, as the spring homebuying season gets underway, low inventory remains a key challenge for prospective buyers.

Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had eight weeks over the summer and four weeks over the winter, so I would take those breaks and basically the minute the school would break up, I would be on a plane and then I would n’t land until the day before it started back up again.

Jemma Warner-Gregory

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whenever investors hear of a ‘data breach,’ they tend to assume the worst … it seems much of the doom and gloom was priced in two weeks ago when news of the cyberattack first broke.

Matt Simpson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The officer narratives released today by the Department of Public Safety were drafted weeks or, in some cases, months after the incident, when officers drafted these statements, each had the opportunity to review the publicly available video and the press releases issued by the GBI.

Enchanta Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is due to the suboptimal condition of the culture system. Especially, if the culture period is long (in this case 5-6 weeks), then the cell potential is compromised.

Katsuhiko Hayashi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If mortgage rates continue to slide over the next few weeks, look for a continued rebound during the first weeks of the spring homebuying season.

Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortgage rates continued to slide down as financial market concerns came to the fore over the last two weeks.

Freddie Mac

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1 year ago

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