A Texas woman who sued for the right to end her nonviable pregnancy has been forced to travel elsewhere for abortion care.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1475621
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1475621
“The Center did not detail where Cox went for care…”
Dear G-d, it’s almost as if we’re back to “Fugitive Slave Law” days.
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Paxton will likely look to prosecute whoever aids her in fleeing.
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Like the infamous case of the raped 10-year-old in Ohio who had to travel out of state for an abortion, it condenses the cruelty, human suffering and no-win situation for health care providers created by abortion bans.
The cruelty is what makes it so very attractive to a ceratin group of powerful republicans. And that group is driving the cult over a cliff. Hopefully that group will pay a very painful price for the needless suffering they’ve caused for so many.
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Proof that the GOP isn’t pro-life. It’s just anti-abortion.
Although medical professionals like Paxton might try to tell you otherwise.
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I am very glad that the woman was in a financial position to get the medical care she needed. I know that this is very difficult for her.
And this has to be a win for Republicans because it shows that they are tough on lawbreakers. I can’t imagine any scenario where this incident would rebound negatively on them, like, for instance, a near-continual parade of political advertisements that say the Republican Party is a degenerate, mindless, woman-hating party that would rather you die than get the medical attention that a doctor says you need. That would be tragic.
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That’s not a crime under Texas law.
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I thought it was a component of the six weeks ban?
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That’s not criminal.
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I think the most important part of this story is:
the face of which is a married white woman with two children, a demographic more difficult for the anti-abortion right to demonize.
Why her being a “White woman” would make it more difficult for her to be demonized is itself troubling, there is no doubt that her being a White woman should send shockwaves to people in her demographic.
Again, if this is enough to get over 50% of White woman in Texas to vote for whoever is not the Republican, Republicans will lose every election in statewide.
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With the procedure performed out of state, does this idiocy still apply?
He added that the TRO from an “activist Travis County judge” does not prevent individual citizens or district or county attorneys from suing
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Paxton’s acquittal by the TX Senate in his impeachment proceedings only emboldened him. He is a total asshole.
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I believe such laws are known as “Fugitive Uterus Acts”.
Women are not people to the creeping bastards who enact such laws, anymore than slaves were human to their creeping bastard ancestors. Damn them all to the same hell on earth they create for other humans.
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A number of local jurisdictions in Texas have created a private right to sue anyone aiding someone to leave the state for an abortion, if they pass through those jurisdictions in the process. Not criminal, but significant liability.
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And she can’t go back to her home in Texas or the jackals will set upon her as well as whomever it was that helped her to travel out of state for the healthcare procedure. Some rotten son of a bitch in the State lege or corrupted Atty Generals office will hound her until they get their pound of her flesh.
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Someone needs to bring a wrongful death suit against Paxton on behalf of the family of the first woman to die because of this law.
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Displaying how weak and logistically nonfunctional abortion ban exceptions are, he also went on to argue that Cox’s numerous health risks aren’t life-threatening enough to qualify her for the procedure.
So even for the life of the mother, as diagnosed by a non-medical professional, isn’t enough to qualify? These people demand we consider the life of the unborn child. Yet, they insist that, given the proposed outcomes, that life wouldn’t be anything. I guess they know the mind of G-d, no?
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SB8, the vigilante bounty statute that grants anybody the right to sue anybody who assists in procuring an abortion after 6 weeks, only applies to an abortion “performed or induced in violation of this subchapter.” Since the statute does not have any force of law outside of Texas, an abortion performed in, say, New Mexico does not violate the subchapter and is therefore not capable of subjecting anyone inside of Texas for helping to procure it.
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D’ya think some nimrod, with the right lawyer and assigned the right judge, might just try?