U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas stayed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of abortion drug mifepristone nationwide Friday, including in blue states with robust abortion protections.
It seems an authoritarian impulse runs through the party of small government and personal sovereignty.
They just never learn, do they?
Kansas…Michigan…now Wisconsin…
Bring it.
Tragically, a lot of women are gonna die between now and then – and a lot of families are gonna be forever broken – but the 2024 election is gonna be lit!
There’s a reckoning coming, and these morons in their Trump bubble won’t even know what hit 'em.
Thanks to Kate Riga and John Light for the late night catch on this story.
Gee, I wonder why the stay was filed so late on a Friday? Afraid of something are we? Dems are going to run the table in 2024 if we can keep the focus on abortion rights.
The 2016 Election seems ever more wasteful to me. We had the record, we had the accomplishment, we had the good will.
And we allowed McConnell and then Trump to trash the Supreme Court and our politics.
If we can use the horrible experiences to our benefit, perhaps we can go forward with more resolve, as it sinks in that voting counts.
In the meantime, my memory of the the 2016 Dem. Convention will be of the hissing and booing of fellow Democrats as Perfect-The-Enemy-Of-The-Good individuals decided to “make a statement” and give the WH to the GOP.
But Her E-Mails
As our judiciary continues to descend further into lawlessness, this is the inevitable reaction. If judges are going to hand out obviously wrong rulings the only recourse for the executive branch is to ignore them. This is not a good thing. But it is the only thing.
This is the real life impact of the current GOP trajectory on abortion and we have to spread these kinds of stories far and wide.
Her name was Halo, and she was born last week, on March 29, two months early and weighing 3 pounds. She lived for four hours, dying in the arms of her father, Luis Villasana.
Her mother, Samantha Casiano, knew their baby wouldn’t survive long because she had anencephaly – part of Halo’s brain and skull never developed.
She asked her OB-GYN what her options were. Casiano says her doctor told her, “Well, because of the new law, you don’t have any options. You have to go on with your pregnancy.”
This nonsense simply mirrors the death anxiety prompting many boomers and Gen-Xers moving to the right. People who posses deeply rooted insecurities for “failing to thrive”. They never got the mansion they aspired to, nor that Lamborghini. They could’ve been contenders if it wasn’t for??? [insert blame target].
I have witnessed this pathetic transformation all too often. People who see their life as a failure because their dreams never materialized. Do they take personal accountability for this? Hell no! Someone else or the system (affirmative action, gender equity, etc…) was to blame. And they strike out at everything in revenge.
They are deeply unhappy and lonely people. They cannot form bonds with emotionally mature people because they’re locked into schemas formed in childhood that were based on entitlement tropes.
This “judge” subscribes to this worldview because the “Christian” movement has absorbed and promotes such self-victimization. Empty pews don’t pay bills. Feed their anger and exploit their naïveté. Toy with them, throw them some red meat to keep them inline.
Thankfully, the youth ain’t having none of their shit. They are taking stock and taking names. Justice is not to be weaponized and they will protest and vote to ensure that that basic principle is restored.
We have reached the point where it is right to say: I have read the courts’ ruling with interest, now let them enforce it.
And how does the executive branch enforce this in the states? It works both ways. If the Feds ignore the courts then so will the states. That way lies chaos.
Women had 49 years of national protection for abortion rights thanks to Roe v Wade. Congress can pass a law restoring that right if enough Dems are voted into Congress while we hold the Presidency, and the SCOTUS can’t do a thing about that. If they try, then expand the court (although I hope that doesn’t happen).
There is majority support for abortion rights in this country, which means our best shot is to preserve the rule of law and expand those rights in that realm. It won’t happen overnight but public pressure is behind us.
Who decides when a judge’s ruling is “obviously wrong”? Would you be OK with Trump, DeSantis, or Dick Cheney making that decision?
Yep. Ohio is next up and will make it 7 for 7.
Tim Ryan should have won
Fuck them.
So Republican lawmakers and judges are in favor of the 1619 project. Or just the medicinal parts of it.
Will Judge Kacsmaryk now only of approve of leeches and bloodletting? After all he’s an originalist and the founders used those methods.
Elsewhere in the universe….
What a wacky world!
Judges have fashioned themselves doctors and make medical decisions for us.
Now a judge has taken on the role of a scientist in removing approval for a medication that is safer than Tylenol and Viagra.
AMA: Texas mifepristone ruling flies in the face of science
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-texas-mifepristone-ruling-flies-face-science
K-mentum!
Yes, but it goes beyond that. This wackadoodle judge has deemed himself smarter than tens of thousands of international research scientists, medicals professionals, and caregivers on a drug with about 40 years of clinical safety. Then the judge decides he is even smarter than the hundreds in the FDA who have reviewed and accepted the safety and efficacy, and he will ban it knowing women will suffer and some will probably die. Pro-life!
On a lighter note, if you missed it during Trumps NYC arrest (like I did) this was Trump as he marched with supporters to the courthouse. (h/t Eric Trump):
The entire trump family is nuts.
Wait, I thought Dobbs settled all the questions related to abortion, whch would now be pure state issues, and there would be no more litigation federally. My gawd, who knew this could possibly happen?!
