Discussion for article #237997
SCOTUS on a roll as of late.
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I might just be overly sensitive here, but does it make sense for progressive media to maybe not use the loaded phrase “abortion clinic” to describe women’s health centers that happen to perform abortions as one of their many services? I mean, we don’t call general practitioners “prostate fingering clinics” even though that is one of the services they perform for men.
Could be I’m wrong about the nature of the facilities in TX, too. Cancer screening? Nope. Birth control counseling and prescriptions? Nope. Pre- and post-natal wellness checks? Nope. Sorry, ma’am, all we do here is abortions.
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Good.
This case will be the one that Roberts uses to get back in the good graces of the nut faction of the GOP.
I’m praying those same 5 people are still alive and on the Court in the fall when the “big” abortion rights decision happens. And I’m an atheist. . .
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Will Tejas ignore this ruling too?
It’d be pretty damn hard to shut down a clinic without manhandling the staff.
If I were the feds, I might just want to take a really close look at the finances and accreditation of the hospitals that keep refusing admitting privileges to doctors who perform abortions. Just sayin’.
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Yep, he had to take Two for the Team with Obamacare (just to satisfy the insurance cartel and hospital corporations). As the solid #4 vote against queers and sluts, he’ll always stay “cool” with Fox and Friends.
Unfortunately, it is entirely possible that although Kennedy voted to issue a stay, he will vote to uphold the regulations after briefing and argument.
DEaTH MILL?
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On a roll unless you are a condemned prisoner or someone who likes to breathe.
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I’m betting many of those hospitals are Catholic affiliated, they object not so much about abortions but about the competition. I remember my father in the '50s as the Board Sec to the local Catholic Hospital talking about what to call the procedure, result was just about anything but the truth.
Babbytoir?
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More Happy Dance!
Take that AG George Wallace Paxton. You and your hate-filled buddies will not have the power to oppress women, LGBT people, minorities. No one.
This abortion fight in Texas is not over. But reproductive rights STARTED here in Texas and we will prevail.
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The clinics do other things. But abortion is the issue. Abortion is not a dirty word. It is an acceptable and common medical procedure. Time to use the word, imo.
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Why is it I doubt conservatives will be celebrating this slap down of “government intrusion” into personal lives for the second time in the last few days?
Seriously, Governor Abbott is fifty shades deeper of partisan, pandering asshole than Perry. Abbott appointed to chair the Texas Board of Education a woman who’s only qualifications were: being a Republican, is anti public schools, and has home schooled her own children.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/06/26/texas-picks-home-schooler-to-lead-state-board-of-education/
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The left has a long and disappointing history of fighting battles on grounds of the reactionary conservatives’ choosing, often finding themselves utterly shocked that the RWNJs are making irrational, fact-ignorant arguments and throwing ideological tantrums that were entirely foreseeable.
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Who/what are you praying to?
I read an interesting post recently about how the hospital admitting privilege requirement is a disingenuous set-up by the anti-abortion movement:
Hospitals are usually reluctant to grant hospital privileges if they don’t see a significant revenue stream out of it. And since abortion is a fairly safe procedure, with almost no cases of adverse outcomes, there is rarely a need for such privileges, and so little anticipation of revenues resulting from their granting;
Typically, when doctors apply for medical malpractice insurance, they are asked if they were ever refused hospital admitting privileges. It’s a yes-or-no question, with no space for explanation of extenuating circumstances. So, admitting you were denied can result in not being able to obtain malpractice coverage
So, it appears the requirement for hospital admitting privileges is a set-up for a no-win situation for abortion providers.
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