Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
"Get the government off the backs of the great American people."
-- Ronald Reagan
Well, so much for that...
Hilarious from THAT guy
see: Moral Majority
(which, by the way, was neither)
He said backs. Nothing about uteruses!
Get the government off the backs of the great American people
And into their bedrooms, pants, classrooms, libraries and everything else... apparently.
And into their bedrooms
They never meant it. Ronnie Raygun was employing racist AF stuff, too.
I left my usual round of asshole political voicemails this weekend. After another call I accidentally tapped Paxton's 800 number again today and it was not accepting calls or overwhelmed.
Good fuck them.
We could have codified Roe, but keeping the filibuster was more important than women.
Keeping the filibuster is pretty important. Without it, Republicans would simply have un-codified Roe in 2016.
Followed by repealing the Voting Rights Act and Medicaid, privatizing Social Security and the Post Office, enacting a regressive flat tax, etc.
Yes, SCOTUS overturned Roe, but they wouldn't have dared to strike down your abortion statute.
My girlfriend just made a cross-country trip from Florida to WA state. She took a southern route across and actually went around Texas to avoid giving them ANY money (gas, food, etc). Yes, it delayed her trip, and cost a bit more, but knowing she didn’t support a bigoted and hateful state government was worth it.
I wonder if she is considering leaving the state for good. What a dumpster fire.
I bet these Republic of Gilead states try to prevent women from traveling or moving out of their shithole states next. Or charge them with something when they get back after getting medical care in a free state. We can't be having these uppity women thinking they live in a FREE country or anything.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The announcement came as Kate Cox, 31, was awaiting a ruling from the Texas Supreme Court over whether she could legally obtain an abortion under narrow exceptions to the state’s ban.
A judge gave Cox, a mother of two from the Dallas area, permission last week but that decision was put on hold by the state’s all-Republican high court.
She’s been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which was representing Cox.
“The pervasive ‘climate of fear’ among the Texas medical community is certain to be made worse by this case and the State’s actions in opposing the abortion Ms. Cox needs,” read the brief, which was filed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has defended the state’s strict anti-abortion laws for nearly a decade, argued that Cox did not demonstrate that the pregnancy had put her life in danger.
Doctors told Cox that her fetus has a condition known as trisomy 18, which has a very high likelihood of miscarriage or stillbirth, and low survival rates, according to her lawsuit filed last week in Austin.
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Well don’t go back, they’ll probably charge you and your family.
Avoid all red states. I wouldn’t put it past another state to extradite her.
This is just good advice in general.
Nah, now it's gonna be an interstate commerce fight, something texas basically has no chance of winning even with SCOTUS rooting for them