As it does occasionally, especially on significant days, the Biden administration released a slate of measures it’s taking to protect abortion rights on Monday, the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The 5th circuit needs to be doubled in size, immediately.
Why do we continue to allow this flagrant political disregard for the law, and for human life and dignity, to continue? Pack that court, at least.
I would suggest to the Biden admin, and Dems in general: let’s propose a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing either “women’s right to bodily autonomy” or “reproductive freedom” or wording of your choice, and then running on that nationally this year.
We have seen what a powerful issue this is, let’s bring it hard front and center. Even this corrupt court can’t overturn it without creating a Constitutional crisis.
I appreciate Biden’s efforts help women’s lives be saved. What is needed is for the voters this fall to overwhelmingly vote Democratic. Would not be the first time Dems have had to clean up Repubs messes.
The ERA was passed in 1972. I remember the joy I felt at the time. That was over 50 years ago.
I got into a rhubarb w/some guy on Facebook about this: I talked about my BODILY rights being taken away. He said you are in NM, you can get an abortion (in our state constitution).
“I” responded I could be pregnant in NM and go visit somebody in Texas, and have a “parking lot situation” and die; I could be pregnant in NM and go visit somebody in Arizona, and have a “parking lot situation” and die.
So NOW the RWers think I have ‘bodily autonomy’ if I just stay the fuck in New Mexico. THANK YOU, Donald J Trump Senior and the ideologues he put on SCOTUS.
That’s an option. Didn’t pass last time, but make it focus on reproductive rights, and it could.
And Roe v Wade was decided in January 1973. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Supreme Court decided a major pro-woman decision after seeing the push for the ERA. Time for a repeat.
Educating patients about how to make complaints changes the calculations for the bean counters (who are, sadly, the decisionmakers at many hospitals). If you know that killing pregnant women is going to get you sued and fined by the feds, it counterbalances the state promise to sue or imprison you for not killing them.
It would be every time. Starting with FDR.
OT (though I consider this topic of the utmost importance), but a few thoughts.
Nikki Haley likes to cite that 70% of Americans don’t want a Biden-Trump matchup, as if that means (and many in the MSM also seem to think this way) that some large percentage of that 70% are unhappy with Biden. I wonder, though. Count me in that 70%. I don’t want that matchup only because I detest Trump and fear his winning far far more than I would fear a Haley’s (horrible as her presidency would be). The 30% who want that matchup are likely that unmovable Trump base. Meanwhile, I think Biden has done a great job and will probably continue to do so. (He actually knows “the best people.”) Kamala could handle things, needs be.
The Biden campaign will need to talk more about the down races, the importance of electing Dems in both houses of Congress. Congress is the problem for Biden’s presidency. Find a way to package that problem for low-info voters. A way to package some basic civics (which party controls the House and Senate MATTERS. The de facto super majority required for most Senate votes…).
MSM coverage of Trump in the primaries tends to overlook that he is running as an incumbent. He’s been performing poorly as an incumbent president.
Biden’s three hot button issues - that are going to win this election - are abortion, climate, and democracy.
Trump? He’s gonna hindenburg himself hugely.
Why bother? There aren’t enough liberal lawyers in Texas to double the size of the 5th Circuit. Right now I would settle for honest non-political conservative judges.
If I recall correctly, the ERA has been ratified by the required number of states, but not within the arbitrary time limit set when it was passed. (Ratification does not always have a time limit, so the argument goes, it doesn’t have to be imposed for the ERA.) I have always wondered why this hasn’t been actively pursued. The amendment was ratified.
And even if the Feds don’t find the hospital in violation of EMTALA (with the resulting fine) the hospital remains vulnerable to a lawsuit, and those lawsuits can be expensive. (I got involved in a couple of EMTALA lawsuits as a statistician testifying on local Standard of Care. Emergency Medicine docs can do everything right according to the hospital rules and still end up being sued. Once the physician loses, the legal team uses that money to finance the lawsuit against the hospital.) Texas and Idaho hospitals are going to find themselves caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. If I were a hospital admin, I’d start looking carefully at the possibility of closing the Emergency Department.
I am unable to understand why any woman would live in Idaho or Texas.
I’m not sure I would trust an Ob/Gyn who chooses to remain in a state that criminalizes a woman’s right to appropriate medical treatment and threatens physicians with legal repercussions if they deliver that care.
I think physicians are not properly prioritizing their patients’ health and that is unacceptable in medicine.
Yes and, we couldn’t get this past the house. The answer is to why bother? Because the right thing to do, and no, there is no reason why any of the judges appointed need to be local. Texas has demonstrated a hostility to the United States of America and federalism in general, so I frankly don’t trust anyone from Texas as a judge.
