From using anti-abortion rhetoric including “unborn children” and “life of the mother” to accusing the government of turning a “patient dumping” prohibition into an “abortion statute,” Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges in oral arguments Tuesday made no effort to mask their hostility to abortion.
Why Democrats don’t hammer on Dobbs all day every day I swear to christ…
And of course, the three judge panel of the 5th Circuit is all male, old men. Never mind that this ruling could be a death sentence for women who have life-threatening complications to a pregnancy, such as an ectopic pregnancy or an incomplete miscarriage. And of course, what really seems to escape their thinking is that if the mother dies, so does the unborn fetus.
They don’t really value life at at all. It is about control and if a mother dies, oh well. Chalk it up to god’s plan.
I live in Colorado. My neighbors were expecting their first child, so they were visiting their parents in Texas. She miscarried and could not receive proper care in Texas despite EMTALA, so they had to make a quick flight to Denver to remove the dead fetus. These judicial decisions are not academic, they have real- world consequences that can be incredibly cruel. Which I suppose is the point.
No money. The Dem throat was cut somewhere around in the 1970s.
“It’s really only when state law is coming in and preventing physicians from exercising that medical judgment that physicians wouldn’t be able to provide any care” that meets the standard of EMTALA, the DOJ’s Neumeister said.
But, gawdamn, Mr. Neumeister, allowing medical professionals to exercise their medical judgment prevents Texas legislators from exercising their own political judgment as to what prohibitive steps should be taken to ensure their re-election.
Fifth Circuit Panel Hostile To Abortion Mulls Another Sweeping Injunction From A Trump Judge
“Mulls” as in they haven’t decided yet, right.
And don’t forget she probably put herself in that position so she deserves it.
Americans are discontented
Well of course.
They need legal advice in their bedrooms.
Get [Republican] government out of our lives
And this is why Trump owns the anti-abortion vote. That is every time we hear “Trump Judge” and “hostility to abortion”, Trump gains support within the GOP.
Unlike every other Republican since Ronald Reagan, Trump not only said he opposed abortion, he actually appointed justices and judges who would make outlawing abortion possible.
That is whatever you may say about Trump the liar, alone among elected Republicans, unlike every other Republican for over 40 years, Trump kept his promise on abortion.
And that alone, regardless of whatever else Trump says, does or is convicted of doing or having done, assures Trump will be the 2024 Republican nominee.
Catching the car. He played that years-long and studiously employed by politicians owned by rich people trope that only rich people could run the country efficiently.
Just a bunch of pricks realizing they’re the only ones in the room with the treasure.
Um, maybe they will when it’s not a year out from national elections…
While that is a question that keeps coming up in these discussions:
How much of this is about abortion and how much of this is really about controlling women through their sexuality?
That is birth control and the family planning it allows really has given women freedoms and opportunities that had previously been reserved for men. So how much of this is about the “unborn” and how much is about returning women and men to the social and family power structure of the 1950s?
They really don’t have to. The can read the room. And voters.
According to Gallup’s May 2023 update on Americans’ abortion views, 34% believe abortion should be legal “under any circumstances,” 51% say it should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” and 13% say it should be illegal in all circumstances.
And remember all seven abortion referendums since Roe going down have passed and tonight Ohio will make it 8-8.
GOP: “We want to shrink government down to the size where it can intrude into your womb.”
Turns this up to ninety.
TPM Posters: “lEts tAlk aBout hIM BeinG a dOg kIllEr aNd a tHieF.”
Also TPM dudes: “wHy wOnT jAimE hArrisOn lIsTen to me? I wOnT bE igNored.”
Fellow Coloradan (transplant, at least) speaking here: what a heart-breaking situation for everyone involved. Even when we think we’re safe in a bluish state, women can’t get a break if they want to do normal stuff like, say, travel to another state.