“The ruling proves what we already know: Roe’s demise has transformed the judiciary into a kind of death panel that holds the power to elevate the potential life of a fetus over the actual life of a patient.”
Killing pregnant people because some principles are more important than a person’s life. 🙄
“Yet the court unanimously decreed that, until her symptoms grew considerably more dire, Cox was legally obligated to continue the failing pregnancy.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/supreme-court-abortion-case-texas-dobbs.html
Let that sink in: they hate abortion so much, she should risk death to protect THEIR beliefs.
That is fucked up.
BUT there is an egregious error in the ruling: an individual does not refer to the unborn. The Fifth Circuit clumsily attempts to argue that it does DESPITE the fact that the unborn is not an individual. Putting things in parentheses doesn’t change the law or its meaning.
Not only was emphasis added but they literally rewrote the law!
“If Congress had intended it to apply to abortion, he concluded, it would have said so more explicitly. (Of course, “stabilizing treatment” encompasses a vast range of medical procedures that Congress did not identify by name, and Engelhardt did not explain why he singled out abortion for disfavor.)”
This is why the judiciary should stay the fuck out of medical decisions. Lives are in the balance. The Fifth Circuit makes an idiotic decision and they call it Tuesday.
@feloneouscat if we weren’t talking about lives, it would be funny. The 5th has become a laughingstock and women will die as a result. It’s like we are living in a dystopian future.