“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.
“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.
@feloneouscat why are there not legions of ACLU and other attorneys constantly bringing suit under the equal protection clause of the 14A?
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.