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Texas takes it to the next level.

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Texas is poised to allow anyone to sue doctors and distributors of abortion pills involved in sending the drugs into the state under sweeping new legislation that is headed to the governor’s desk.

The bill, backed by antiabortion activists and passed in the state Senate on Wednesday, allows private citizens to sue companies and individuals who manufacture or distribute abortion pills to patients in Texas. Winning plaintiffs would get a minimum of $100,000 in damages.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to sign the legislation into law. Abbott included the bill on the agenda for the state’s two special sessions this summer, which have been largely dedicated to redistricting and the July floods.
Texas has been exploiting any opening in the law they can create. And now, they target the pharma industry. All they need to do is get a small group of people to sue the Pharma industry and say one thing got shipped to Texas. Heck, they can order it themselves probably. The good news is, this isn't enforceable as it crosses state lines. The bad news is, they are trying to create a rule that SCOTUS will back.
 
This is just evil.


Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.

The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.

Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.

Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.
 
This is just evil.


Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.

The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.

Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.

Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.
It's also old.
 
This is just evil.


Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.

The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.

Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.

Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.
It's also old.
It wasn't that old.
 
It's not old at all.

From the story,

On Thursday, a spokeswoman for U.S.A.I.D. — which is now being wound down by Russell Vought, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget — said in a statement to The Times that the contraceptives had been destroyed, and falsely suggested that they induced abortion.

However the story has since been updated.

Update Sept. 12, 2025: Regional authorities in Belgium said on Friday that the contraceptive materials in a warehouse have not yet been destroyed, contradicting earlier comments from the spokeswoman for the United States Agency for International Development.

They have a new article about it.


But when the authorities in Belgium, responding to the report in The Times, obtained authorization to enter the warehouse that had been holding the supplies on Friday morning, the stockpile was still there, an official in the Flanders region said.

Local authorities “carried out on-site inspections this morning and found that no cargoes had been diverted for incineration,” said Tom Demeyer, a spokesman for the Flemish minister with jurisdiction over the issue.
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The statement from U.S.A.I.D. that the contraceptives had been destroyed came as a surprise to the authorities in Belgium, including in Flanders, where the contraceptives were housed in a warehouse. In light of the news, the authorities were ordered to search the site. Flanders has a ban on incinerating still-usable medical products. That means the United States would need to request permission to destroy them, which Belgian officials said they had not done.
 
Why go to the effort of destroying them, when you can get the exact same boost in popularity in the Bible Belt by just saying that you did?

The voters who support the destruction likely don't even know which state Belgium is in*, so they are hardly likely to go and check.




* It's probably one of those hippy blue states on the West Coast, or in the North East.
 
Why go to the effort of destroying them, when you can get the exact same boost in popularity in the Bible Belt by just saying that you did?

The voters who support the destruction likely don't even know which state Belgium is in*, so they are hardly likely to go and check.




* It's probably one of those hippy blue states on the West Coast, or in the North East.
Given the geographic distribution of Waffle Houses I suspect that Belgium is one of the few European countries those people actually know something about.
 
Why go to the effort of destroying them, when you can get the exact same boost in popularity in the Bible Belt by just saying that you did?

The voters who support the destruction likely don't even know which state Belgium is in*, so they are hardly likely to go and check.




* It's probably one of those hippy blue states on the West Coast, or in the North East.
Given the geographic distribution of Waffle Houses I suspect that Belgium is one of the few European countries those people actually know something about.
Belgian Waffles are only known by that name in North America.

The name originates with a Belgian called Maurice Vermersch, who sold Brussels Waffles at the 1964 World's Fair in New York; According to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, M. Vermersch changed the name to Belgian Waffles when he realised that most Americans didn't know where Brussels was located.
 
Vermersch changed the name to Belgian Waffles when he realised that most Americans didn't know where Brussels was located.
I think he was reticent to admit that Americans hate Brussels sprouts.
 
Somebody needs to do a poll: how many Americans think hot dogs are made out of dogs?

If there are some who believe that the largest city in the world is Asia, and this one remarkable woman who thought the moon was the sun seen at night, anything's possible.
 
Vermersch changed the name to Belgian Waffles when he realised that most Americans didn't know where Brussels was located.
I think he was reticent to admit that Americans hate Brussels sprouts.
Well, I've never had one but I know I would hate them! (I don't like cooked leaves of any variety.)
 
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Texas takes it to the next level.

article said:
Texas is poised to allow anyone to sue doctors and distributors of abortion pills involved in sending the drugs into the state under sweeping new legislation that is headed to the governor’s desk.

The bill, backed by antiabortion activists and passed in the state Senate on Wednesday, allows private citizens to sue companies and individuals who manufacture or distribute abortion pills to patients in Texas. Winning plaintiffs would get a minimum of $100,000 in damages.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to sign the legislation into law. Abbott included the bill on the agenda for the state’s two special sessions this summer, which have been largely dedicated to redistricting and the July floods.
Texas has been exploiting any opening in the law they can create. And now, they target the pharma industry. All they need to do is get a small group of people to sue the Pharma industry and say one thing got shipped to Texas. Heck, they can order it themselves probably. The good news is, this isn't enforceable as it crosses state lines. The bad news is, they are trying to create a rule that SCOTUS will back.
And California is responding by proposing to allow anonymous prescriptions:


I'm puzzled about how this verifies that it's actually a doctor doing the prescribing.
 
And they're trying to go after mifepristone on the basis that it contaminates the water supply. Um, no, even if a meaningful amount of it reaches the sewage facilities the same things that break down the organics most certainly would break it down, also. PFASs make it through the sewage plant because the C-F bonds are so strong that neither microbes nor powerful oxidizing agents (nor anything else in nature) can appreciably break them, but not ordinary organics.

And they're also "concerned" about abortion remains in the water. Hey, nature already dumps more in the system with miscarriages than mifepristone does. And there's no biological difference, mifepristone does nothing to the fetus itself, only causes the pregnancy to fail. Thus what comes out is exactly the same as for any other failure of the pregnancy.

 
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