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Cruelty
As we’ve talked about since Dobbs was decided, this is going to be one of many, many similar stories that will be told.
The Right will paint such stories as crisis actors and fake news, but these will be real.
And Republican women will still vote for the GQP.
Last year, a Texas federal district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking Becerra’s guidance, siding with the Texas attorney general’s arguments that EMTALA does not cover abortions intended to prevent an emergency.
Now I wonder which Judge this was.
“Republican women”
The cruelest
Look to the architect:
How many women will have to die before these inhumane laws are overturned? I think that at some point people will just say enough, but meanwhile the loss of life will be totally unacceptable, even if it’s just one person.
sadly; the only sure protection women have against these creepy laws., is to avoid pregnacy…they know how to do it…just do it…women and most girls know how at an early age…no-one is going to save you.
It will be for us, but not for them. Consider the right wing’s non reaction to the Covid death toll, the anti-vaxx movement, the calls for old people to die for the good of the economy. We would be wrong to assume that charity and a sense of human worth and that women have equal rights guides their actions.
The conventional wisdom is that, if we elect more women, this problem of legislation against women can’t happen.
How many elected women have voted in favor of what has become law in their respective States? If women can’t try to save women, I don’t know what chance we have.
The women about whom you speak are mostly white, mostly well-off women engaged in religionism, evangelical, ultra Catholics, ultra Mormons, etc. They are not representative of all women.
Maybe so, but there are enough of them that they are not forming the bulwark we need against the revocation of women’s rights to health care on a pretense of caring about the unborn when they don’t care about school shootings.
They are getting elected - not just to legislative positions, but to positions of authority with respect to the vote.
These women are more dangerous than the men, at this point.
What a shameful mess the Supreme Court unleashed. The result of the Dobbs decision are state laws that guarantee life threatening risks, pain, and suffering to women who need abortions. The laws are working as state legislatures intended. These laws have nothing to do with protecting life. They are about punishing women, their husbands/partners, and their families.
And there are no repercussions or penalties for those on the Court that inflicted this.
Lifetime appointments. No accountability.
Her water broke less than 18 weeks into her pregnancy last August, and she was desperate for an abortion.
American doctors told her there was nothing they could do. Nothing.
Mexican doctors could save her life. Ours can’t.
A judge in Lubbock -James Wesley Hendrix- is the who did it. The injunction is not nationwide.
Texas judge blocks enforcement of Biden emergency abortion guidance | Courthouse News Service
Yes they are - in alignment with the current geographic distribution of conservative power and rule in rural states with small populations that have outsized power, relative to their size owing to the idiosyncrasies of our constitution. This will change with time as the old generation dies off and demographic changes occur. We will become a kinder society but it will take time. But as I have pointed out before, with the climate catastrophe looming over us, time is something we may not have.
Thanks! I was betting on Reed O’Connor.
Hendrix was appointed by Trump.
Sure. That was a pretty safe bet.