“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
“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.
“The court acknowledged a fact that the anti-abortion movement has strived mightily to conceal: Abortion bans like Texas’ imperil the health of pregnant patients, denying them the medical standards of care that doctors have applied in these tragic scenarios. In their place, doctors must apply a state-mandated fixation on preserving the fetus’s heartbeat for as long as possible—even if the pregnancy is guaranteed to end in miscarriage”
And this is why Texas is dangerous for pregnant people.
“These states consistently attempt to blame patients, doctors, and even the media for these horrific, agonizing episodes. But as the 5th Circuit confirmed, the blame falls on the laws themselves. The Biden administration tried to carve out a humane exception for “stabilizing” care when a patient’s health “could reasonably be expected” to suffer severely. Republican lawmakers vehemently rejected this trade-off”
Because, as the Fifth Circuit showed, it’s all about cruelty and control.
It was never about the fetus. It was about taking away the rights of pregnant people. It was about making care substandard for pregnant people. It was about treating pregnant people as disposable.
“Saving the life of the mother” was about assuring that abortion ONLY occurred when it was the most dangerous for the pregnant person, not when it was the safest.
Or when there can is no viability.
Republicans are about cruelty, hatred and anger.
They do not deserve to be in government.
@feloneouscat it's absolutely vile
@feloneouscat why are there not legions of ACLU and other attorneys constantly bringing suit under the equal protection clause of the 14A?
@feloneouscat A doctor faces the choice of breaking his oath or breaking the law and going to jail. But is that the real choice? If he breaks his oath by withholding lifesaving care, won't he lose his medical license? And doesn't Texas have a law prohibiting practicing medicine without a license? Thus, doesn't he break one law or the other law whatever he chooses? So isn't his real choice whether to leave medicine or leave Texas?
The real choice is to remove Republicans from office. Less than 40% of Texas is white. Only 26.7% are white Republicans.
Texas COULD go blue tomorrow: we just need everyone to go to the polls.
We CAN overturn these laws.
We can fix Texas by voting EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT!
@feloneouscat @walterbays
Looking at the map, you'd think we were a majority Democratic state, the cities being so much more densely populated.
Germandering though means Dems have to earn 58% of the votes to get 36% of the state legislature seats.
We shall overcome
But here’s the thing: Republicans only make up 22% of the population (of whites they make up 27%).
If everyone voted, even with gerrymandering, we can turn Texas blue. The problem, IMHO, is we have been CONVINCED that it is impossible to throw off the Republican yoke.
It can be done.
@feloneouscat @walterbays
I believe it and I assure you, I work towards that goal.
We need to be clear eyed about the effects of gerrymandering
What Texas really suffers from is minority government. If "government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed" as the US Constitution says, our government is illegitimate
@BrentSullivan @feloneouscat One thing you have to "credit" the GOP with is a better appreciation of how institutions work than the Dems. While Dems were entirely focused on top offices and big ideas, GOP went after small local offices and small issues like road repair and garbage pickup. Dems defended judicial independence while GOP complained of activist judges legislating from the bench.
But then those local offices gave GOP a deep bench of candidates for the next level and the next...
@BrentSullivan @feloneouscat ...and it gave them power to set rules for electing those offices, gerrymandering themselves into safe seats and disenfranchising Dems and minorities. The judges they put into higher and higher positions were activist way beyond anything they had ever accused liberal judges of doing, and were committed to GOP power and minority rule above all else.
Which brings us to today.😓
@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.
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!