Nevada’s state assembly just passed a bill removing a series of restrictions on abortions, including requirements that a patient be told about the “physical and emotional implications” of having an abortion, that “a physician certify a pregnant woman’s marital status and age before performing an abortion,” and that a provider inform the patient of the “consequences” of having an abortion. The Associated Press reports that under the bill, it would no longer be illegal for a non-physician to dispense abortion-inducing medications.

via Nevada Lawmakers Poised to Remove Series of Abortion Restrictions

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery claims to be a big believer in data. As reported last year, Montgomery has blocked effective, commonsense criminal justice reform proposals from becoming law in part by criticizing them as having “no data to support” them, and as being “pet projects” “based on myths and rhetoric.”

Given this insistence on evidence-based policy, it would be reasonable to assume that Montgomery would happily comply with a public records request seeking exactly the sort of data he wishes folks would utilize. He’s done the exact opposite.

via We’re Suing Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to Release the Records He’s Hiding From Arizonans. | American Civil Liberties Union

The UK’s move to treat revenge porn as a specific crime was supposed to catch perpetrators who’d otherwise slip through the cracks, but that doesn’t appear to have worked out in practice. The Revenge Porn helpline has collected police data showing that the number of related charges dropped 23 percent between the periods of 2015-2016 and 2018-2019 despite the number of investigations more than doubling over the same space of time. Just 158 people faced charges, the helpline said. The shortfall is pinned on both shortcomings in the law itself as well as a lack of understanding from police.

As revenge porn is treated like a communications crime rather than a sexual crime, victims aren’t guaranteed anonymity. They might be afraid to speak out knowing that the culprit might retaliate, and over a third of victims from the past year have decided against pursuing cases. Police, meanwhile, frequently don’t know how to handle the crime. A 2017 University of Suffolk study showed that 95 percent of officers hadn’t had any training on the subject.

via Victim group says UK’s revenge porn laws aren’t working

Billie Eilish is pretty much as livid about the Great American Dismantling of reproductive rights as you and I are, telling Variety at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards:

“Honestly, I can’t even look at my phone,” she told Variety. “I have no words for the bitches in the fucking White House.” But then she thought of some: “It’s so unbelievable. It makes me, like, red. It makes my ears fucking steam out of my head. Women should say, should do and feel and be exactly what they want. There should be nobody else telling them how to live their life, how to do shit. … It just makes me so mad that if I start talking about it, I won’t stop. Men should not make women’s choices — that’s all I have to say.”

Eilish is one of several celebrities publicly enraged by newly passed laws choking off abortion access in Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Utah. Rihanna also posted an Instagram photo expressing her disgust at Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, and Travis Scott announced at Hangout Fest in Alabama this weekend that he’d be donating all the money made from his merch table to Planned Parenthood.

Remember, if your ears are also fucking steaming, here are some good organizations where you can donate.

via The Abortion Bans Sweeping the Country Make Billie Eilish’s ‘Ears Fucking Steam’

Republican legislator Barry Hovis is sorry mistakenly suggesting that some rape is consensual while explaining that eight weeks is plenty of time to discover pregnancy and make the decision to have an abortion.

He says he misspoke on the State House floor while lecturing on how rape works:

“Let’s just say someone goes out and they’re raped or they’re sexually assaulted one night after a college party — because most of my rapes were not the gentleman jumping out of the bushes that nobody had ever met,” Hovis said. “That was one or two times out of a hundred. Most of them were date rapes or consensual rapes, which were all terrible.”

via Missouri Republican Barry Hovis Says Some Rape Is Consensual