on thursday, voters legislator passed a total abortion ba that will have dir consequences for people living across the south within hours of its passage, ron desantis quietly signed th bill into law. that would ban abortion afte six weeks of pregnancy that is before many women know that they re even pregnant law won t take into effect until they resolve a chanc 15-week abortion ban that is signed into law last year florida s one blast places where people can access care i the south. it has quickly become unde abortion desert. when the six-week ban goes int effect, abortion will be entirely banned throughout the southern united states meanwhile, the fight to keep a decades old drug legal and accessible throughout th country has now reached th supreme court. yesterday justice alito paused the court ruling that woul have restricted access t nationwide to the bill for stone. for now, at least until next week, access has bee preserved. the issue however is far fro resolved and fut
the funding. but librarians across missouri recognize that this is a major threat one librarian who has served a state for over two decades sai quote, the majority of missour libraries all small libraries. for smaller communities, the rely on this funding to serv their communities, to provid some programs, to provide ne books, new materials, and to pay their staff. this will have an absolutely devastating effect and next week, the tech slab re-association will hold its annual meeting in austin book banning and the threa elaborate on the top of this agenda a member of the associatio will join my friend ali next week to discuss, you do no want to miss that conversation before we get there, we ve got today s meeting of the minds o velshi banned book club with author and her memoir, you sound like a white girl. when she was a teen, one o high school crush told her tha she spoke quote, like a whit girl at the time, she thought it wa a compliment but after becoming an american citizen, and g