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Why the fuck would anyone want to ban medical emergency abortions? How would any sane person think this is a moral stance? The only goal is to kill women. How is this a mainstream political party’s stance?
Just declare open season on women already. Jesus Christ these people are fucking sick.
Remember when Trump supporters said they didn't want to ban abortions? Remember when they said they just wanted to bam late term abortions? Remember when they said that they wouldn't ban medical emergency abortions? Or rape?
It's infuriating talking to these people, I remember how they were playing it of as the rest of us being crazy and projecting our own hysteria. What the fuck do we do with people like this? Trump tried to overturn the democratic process and people still support him. Similar with abortions they downplay and lie about what the consequences would be if he wins. Talking and reasoning with these people clearly does not work. I now understand more than ever how a country can spiral into something like Nazi Germany. And the only thing I learned is that there is very little you can do about it when these many people are this fucking stupid.
What the fuck do we do with people like this?
In my less-charitable moments my ideas involve claw hammers.
You're very kind, I always imagine using a ball peen hammer.
I just want to cut off their diabetes medicine and watch them suffer in front of their families.
Just tell them there are nanochips in the insulin and you won't even need to cut them off.
Sounds like TX doctors should start refusing to see any politicians or their families in the state. Let them handle it themselves.
*Republicans
So they want the death panels they yelled about when the ACA was passed.
It's ok because it's their death panel. They'll only let the bad people die.
Texas and the associations immediately sued the administration, saying the guidance interfered with the state’s right to restrict abortion [regardless of risk to the mother’s life in the ER]. A lower court judge in August 2022 agreed
Fuck me. What premise to hang a judicial argument on. They openly are fighting for “no exemptions, no matter what” and are willing to force doctors and nurses to break their medical oaths to do that, under color of law.
If you’re a medical professional who has any dealings with women, it’s time to leave Texas. The goals of the state, and yours as a medical practitioner, irrefutably do not align. Ken Paxton will hunt you down via lawfare, slander your name in public, and ruin your life if you dare to care for a dying patient that you can save from death.
Ken Paxton will hunt you down via lawfare, slander your name in public, and ruin your life if you dare to care for a dying patient that you can save from death.
He's going to do it even if you don't live or practice in the state.
This sounds like another one of those “well the state has no obligation to actually protect its citizens. So therefore you can’t force us to provide life saving procedures.” I am a dude and this just boils my blood. Maybe there is just no fixing that god forsaken state. Texas, Florida and Idaho.
This sounds like another one of those “well the state has no obligation to actually protect its citizens. So therefore you can’t force us to provide life saving procedures.”
What? This isn't restricting the state from performing abortions.
Time to pull all federal funding from that shithole state.
Not just pull funding, band federal spending.
Yes, push their poor people further into poverty and strengthen the conservative stranglehold on the state!
A lower court judge in August 2022 agreed, finding that Emtala was silent as to what a doctor should do when there is a conflict between the health of the mother and the unborn child
And that’s absolutely correct. This has been a big point about “codify Roe” that Congress hasn’t addressed.
The tenth amendment says that if Congress is silent on a point, State’s get to weigh in.
This has been an ongoing thing that folks have indicated for Congress to fix especially since 1992 when we had Casey, when literally SCOTUS dropped the hint that Congress really needs to step up on this massive missive.
I don’t like the ruling, but it’s absolutely the correct one. Biden gave it a shot but this one is completely on Congress to fix. The President can’t unilaterally attempt to fill in a blank that States have already filled in.
It’s this same power that allows California to command a lot of their environmental programs, to deny it to Texas would destroy a ton of protections California has created.
Is america actually a country or just a set of miniature nations that refuse to work together?
It's actually 5-10 countries pretending to be 50 tiny countries pretending to be one big country.
set of miniature nations that refuse to work together
through laws and policies and a militarized police force people are encouraged to stay where they are
The most "united" thing about the US is undoubtedly Citizens United. Otherwise, yep.
In many ways they are less cohesive than the EU.
If the ruling went the other way those judges would be receiving death threats. Conservatives are not playing by the same rules as the rest of us. Something needs to change.
That will teach her to try to protect her life and fertility!
State laws to nullify federal laws are already unconstitutional
From my understanding there is no federal law, that's why the repeal by the supreme Court was so bad
Yeah don't know why that was never codified into law...
The cruelty is the point of it. Fuck these people.
Fuck these people
Nope. Not with a 3ft dildo on the end of a 30ft pole. Having a child with one of these assholes is probably the worst way to ruin your life.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it illegal to own a dildo in Texas?
Edit: Decided to do the research myself.
The Texas obscenity statute is a statute prohibiting the sale of sex toys in Texas. The law was introduced in 1973, and was last updated in 2003. While the law was never formally repealed, in 2008 a U.S. District Judge released a report declaring it to be "facially unconstitutional and unenforceable."
Texas Penal Code 43.23 (f) states: “A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.” Elsewhere, the code defines the devices as “a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”
So it's illegal to sell sex toys. Kinda. And definitely illegal to own six or more dildos.
This actually explains a lot.
Maybe.
They need those unplanned pregnancies to make future republicans
Just a suggestion for all Texan women.... Have no kids, don't get pregnant..ei, hold back sex until the men of your state join you in a big ass pro-women march. One so big that Trump would talk about how hooch it was.
America needs to ban Texas. ASAP.
May the people who enabled this get unplanned pregnancy after pregnancy.
The ones who enabled this won’t though.
Hard right conservative males are not going to get pregnant.
Let's not act like there isn't a huge amount of women who enabled this. 52% of white women voted for Trump and one of his biggest campaign promises was repealing Roe v Wade.
Some women are fine with this until it suddenly affects them individually
the key story from this, to me, is the woman protesting outside a clinic every day, comes in one day to get an abortion, and then goes back to join the picket line.
Part of what gets me about it is that I totally understand how they wind up like that. Lapses are acceptable in Christianity, but committing to sin isn’t. Add in the fact that completely changing your mind and lifestyle is hard and slow, especially when it comes with confessing those changes to your social circle knowing you will be rejected for it. Furthermore Christians love people who are desperate and in moral and social turmoil, they prey on such people. So when she felt that way she already believed in that, so they might’ve even tightened their hold on her.
Anatomicaly impossible, Mr. Garibaldi. But you’re welcome to try.
-the assholes
Fifth Circuit? Shocker
That whole bench needs to be reseated.
all states have started to do things on a state by state basis unless the federal law is favored
policing, abortion, insurance, wages, cannabis are all state by state issue
federal is out the window just look at voting you get to vote on who your state decides to put on the ballot
not everyone in texas decided this the politicians did look at Ohio recently it does not listen to what people vote for
obama, trump, and biden all support states rights that is just the last three presidents
Yeah if texas can amend their constitution by ballot initiative, as an Ohioan I recommend they learn from us. It’s basically the only way we get what we want since we’re so gerrymandered
The Texas constitution is a mess.