How horrible that the sadness of miscarriage is compounded by the cruelty of having to flee the state to get care for the mother.
I’m glad your neighbors were able to get care in the end. No one should have to go through what Texas put them -and so many others-through.
Because they are too busy moaning about Biden’s age and approval ratings. They are their own worst enemy, year after year.
Who’s they?
Democratic strategists who appear as talking heads on every mainstream media outlet. Here is but one example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/12/biden-trump-election-step-aside/
Well, at least these judges will be called “Trump Judges” for the rest of their lives.
That’s gotta sting.
I’ll be surprised when the 7-2 decision is handed down, honest.
The two dissenting votes will be cast, of course, by bought-and-paid-for inveterate tax cheats Alito and Thomas, both of whom couldn’t give a rat’s ass about anyone but themselves but their ideology.
I really want a brave and fierce state legislator to ask the Republicans in the heavily controlled states how many women have to die before it becomes a more than a sad old thing?
In Idaho they stopped tracking maternal mortality rates. I don’t think the Feds can make them count and keep track, but can the rise in insurance rates for women’s health be tracked? Can the Feds ask for the cost of giving birth in these states that have a but banned abortion?
FIFY
“The three-judge panel included Donald Trump appointees Kurt Engelhardt and Cory Wilson, plus Leslie Southwick, a George W. Bush pick.”
I find it sad and more than a little distressing that I have in recent years taken to regularly checking which president nominated what judges when I read about another judicial blow to the American Experiment in self government. Such decisions are much more likely to be GOP nominees.
That TPM now finds it journalistically called for to name judges rather than just their findings and opinions I take to be a bad sign for the future of thus country.
And how many innocent victims of mass shootings had to die before we finally got a semblance of gun control?
Oh, wait… 
Kate… Kate, Kate, Kate…
Brilliant. No notes.
squirmishes
I’m waiting for the injunction on abortion when the baby is half-way out the birth canal.
I dissent: I’d love to put Cruz, Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton through something similar with, say, acute appendicitis. Or maybe necrotizing fasciitis.
To be fair, those judges were extremely low-hanging fruit, made so by Leonard Leo and his dark megadonor pals, who cultivated that orchard like Gregor Mendel for a long time. If Leo hadn’t provided a list, TRUMP would probably have suggested his own kids for all he thought about SCOTUS.
TRUMP just timed it right. He saw Organized Money winding up for the knockout punch to democracy, and he stepped into the shorts just before the punch connected. The reason he actually paid his bills to the GOP and the everyday prudes is that he wanted their second vote and he’s so completely transactional.
If W had somehow become president again instead of TRUMP, I don’t doubt he would have appointed equally anti-choice justices. And who knows: some of those might even have come from outside FedSoc, because after all W could be a headstrong and quirky guy!
Meanwhile, today, Ohio is the 6th state to vote on whether abortion should be legal & is the 6th state to tell the state government to butt out and let abortion be legal. Most of the 6 states are Republican run, so the issue seems to transcend traditional party boundaries.
Right wing extremists really are wearing out their welcome.
Since it’s the 5th Circuit, I thought that was “mull” as in “mullah”.
I really want some to ask what makes that state legislator qualified to make personal medical and life decisions for each of their individual constituents and demand an immediate answer in public.
It’s as it an episode of The Magic School Bus were co-produced by Jerry Falwell and Josef Mengele.
