The Gilead Gazette: Tennessee Silenced Six Women, Louisiana’s Kill Shot, and the Femicide Crisis

This week on the Gilead Gazette: Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti pressured the state legislature to pass a brand new law giving his office sovereign immunity, specifically to stop six women from testifying about nearly dying under the state’s abortion ban. One woman’s fetus had organs growing outside its body. Others developed sepsis. They waited years for their day in court. He invented a law to silence them the week before they were scheduled to testify. In Louisiana, AG Liz Murrill filed with the Fifth Circuit to stop all telehealth abortion pill prescriptions nationally while her mifepristone lawsuit plays out. Since Dobbs, abortion rates have actually increased nationwide - bans haven’t stopped abortions, telehealth has kept them accessible, which is exactly why Republicans are trying to kill it. New Guttmacher data confirms the bans are failing at their only stated purpose: the abortions Republicans spent years calling murder are up, while emergency medical care for pregnancy complications has decreased so precipitously it’s costing women their lives. We’re also in a femicide crisis that the media won’t name. This week alone: a Louisiana man killed eight children in a domestic violence shooting, Justin Fairfax killed his wife during divorce proceedings, a Utah man killed his wife the day after she filed for divorce, and D4vd was charged with murdering a 14-year-old girl he’d been sexually abusing. The New York Times called it “relationship stress.” It’s femicide, connected to the manosphere, Andrew Tate, Epstein, and a culture that treats women as property. Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court struck down the state’s Medicaid abortion funding ban, ruling it violates the state’s Equal Rights Amendment. A win. For the most essential reporting on attacks on women’s rights, follow Jessica Valenti and subscribe to Abortion, Every Day . Stay angry. Stay loud. Under Her Eye. Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe