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New Jersey makes it illegal to interfere with reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare
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Tony Bark pawb.social tonytins@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-04
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Legislation to strengthen protections for reproductive and transgender healthcare providers and patients is poised for Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s approval following party-line votes by New Jersey lawmakers Tuesday.

The state Assembly approved the Democratic-sponsored measure to create a new crime of interfering with reproductive healthcare, which under the bill includes care for people who are transgender, by a vote of 55 to 23. The Senate also approved minor changes made by the Assembly by 25 to 15.

Jennifer Williams, a city council member in Trenton who is transgender, said she “could not be happier” with the outcome, given the years of advocacy by LGBTQ+ supporters.

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halcyoncmdr piefed.social halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-15
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Damnit New Jersey, why you gotta be doing things that make it harder to make fun of you?

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Concetta lemmy.blahaj.zone vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Goddamn this ain't Chris Christie's New Jersey anymore

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Scrubbles poptalk.scrubbles.tech scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
Joined: 2023-06-02
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Some assholes in Mississippi are fuming right now over the freedoms these people have thousands of miles away from them.

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Uriel238 [all pronouns] lemmy.blahaj.zone uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-06-25
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Given that some states are trying to criminalize both and extend that reach across state lines, this sounds like it could be a fundamental cause for civil war.

After all, the last one was about whether civil rights should be extended universally or only to some.

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RoddyStiggs lemmy.blahaj.zone RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-03-16
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Given that some states are trying to criminalize both and extend that reach across state lines, this sounds like it could be a fundamental cause for civil war. After all, the last one was about whether civil rights should be extended universally or only to some.

Honestly, yeah. Those of us with a soul are absolutely done tolerating republicans' hate, and we know damned well they aren't capable of the level of compassion or self-reflection to improve. We also know from republicans that violence is an extremely effective tool to advance an agenda.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
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Damnit New Jersey, why you gotta be doing things that make it harder to make fun of you?

Jersey has been stacking up wins for years now

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