{"id":32921,"date":"2018-07-01T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32921"},"modified":"2018-07-01T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T18:54:08","slug":"personal-update-7-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/01\/personal-update-7-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update &#8211; 7\/1\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy&#8217;s cousin is coming at an off hour, and I have a lot of extra work to do to make the job easier for her.&#160; This is my only article today, and I will not be sending links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:22 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-01-CE2504A965A9\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-war-women-health-f911853ed071\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>It\u2019s been less than a week since Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, but already anti-women activists are plotting how best to take advantage of a weakened judicial branch in order to undermine access to safe abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy was long thought to be the crucial swing vote on any legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, having already upheld the landmark decision in 1992. With his departure, Donald Trump will have an opportunity to nominate a second person to the bench, one who figures to be far less sympathetic towards women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>In case there was any doubt about the administration\u2019s intentions behind filling Kennedy\u2019s seat, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services Roger Severino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.com\/news\/politics-government\/article214071619.html\" target=\"_blank\">appeared at the National Right to Life Convention on Thursday<\/a> in Overland Park, Kansas and assured the crowd of anti-woman activists that the Trump administration was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.com\/news\/politics-government\/article214071619.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cjust getting started.\u201d<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur president is fearless when it comes to life and conscience,\u201d Severino added.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump is able to appoint a crucial fifth anti-woman justice to the Supreme Court, the fate of safe abortions for millions of women across the country will be jeopardized. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/29\/politics\/abortion-roe-v-wade-supreme-court\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Already, there are several states<\/a> that have passed unconstitutional laws aimed at criminalizing abortion. Those laws are facing legal challenges, some of which seem likely to end up before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My comment is graphic. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/AbortionGOP.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoons<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Canada-Day.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0701Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy&#8217;s cousin is coming at an off hour, and I have a lot of extra work to do to make the job easier for her.&#160; This is my only article today, and I will not be sending links messages on Care2. 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