Cox’s gynecologist, Dr. Damla Karsan, has previously said she had a “good faith belief” that Cox falls under the legal exception to the abortion ban, but couldn’t provide the abortion without a court order because she “cannot risk loss of her medical license, life in prison, and massive civil fines” if her belief is not accepted by the courts.
The state allows for abortions after six weeks if a woman experiences a “medical emergency,” which is defined in the law as “a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that, as certified by a physician, places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.”
Sounds like the doctor believes that she is ready to take that risk?
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton responded Thursday afternoon in a letter addressed to three Houston hospitals saying the temporary order would “not insulate hospitals, doctors, or anyone else, from civil and criminal liability for violating Texas’ abortion laws.”
Millions of us vote against these assholes. The vicious troglodytes still outnumber us slightly and leverage their structural advantages ruthlessly. It’s not like we can vote harder–all we can do is encourage turnout. It’s going to take 700 to 900 thousand voters to flip statewide elections. Want to move here and help?
And, if you think about the assholes around here, it makes sense. Protests just make them feel better, as they’re clearly pwning the libs.
At the end of the day, it’s votes that will make the difference. And enough to overcome a lot of structural advantages that allow a small-ish majority (and yes, it’s still majority) to hold the power a large majority would hold if things were more representative
It just shouldn’t be this way. I know I’m just screaming into a void.
I just can’t make any sense of what Ken Paxton is doing. There will not be a good outcome for this woman if she is not permitted the health care she needs. She may never be able to have a family, which she desperately wants. And a good doctor risks her license in order to do what her patient needs.
This isn’t pro life. It’s one of the scariest things I see happening in a fucking boatload of scary stuff I see happening right now.
The failure of his recent impeachment pretty much means there’s no legal way to get rid of him short of flipping an election. They don’t give a shit about protests, and would just use the opportunity to spread lies about the protesters to rile up their base.
The only bright spot that I can offer is that turnout was up dramatically in the election I worked in November. If it marks a trend, and the newly engaged voters lean blue by enough of a margin, we might start chipping away at Republican dominance at the state level. Unfortunately, the next shot at unseating Paxton and Abbott will be in 2026.
According to these Bible thumpers, women were “created” for the purpose of having babies, yet if this woman doesn’t have an abortion, she may never be able to have babies again.
It’s about power and control. Preferably of groups that Ken Paxton doesn’t personally belong to. He’s not a woman and he’ll never be pregnant so that fits. And any women maimed or dead are just “collateral damage” to his goals.
Ken Paxton isn’t up for reelection next year, but Ted Cruz is, and maybe this will be what Allred needs to get rid of him. This poor woman is someone that every suburban white woman can identify with, and, frankly, that’s the only group in the Republican tent that seems flippable. I think a lot of women who are still voting Republican believe deep down that if they or their daughter was in this situation, they would be able to get the health care they need–but this makes it very clear that they won’t. Ohio has shown that abortion rights get the vote out in a serious way.
Obviously, Ted Cruz has no real power over abortion laws in Texas, but he’s the biggest state-wide office on the ballot in November, so he’s going to be the only target. There are 3 Texas Supreme Court Judges up for re-election. Those are also state-wide, and if they were replaced with Democrats, that might also have some meaning, or be the start of something that had some meaning.
Seriously. My mother-in-law is a quite petite woman with a small pelvis, and when she became pregnant she was told that that there would be no way that her baby could be delivered naturally, and that she needed to have a C-section. Her father who was a big bible thumper that that this was somehow unnatural and against god, and so opposed it. When he was told giving birth might be fatal to her, his response was “if she dies she dies.”
Fortunately she decided not to listen to him and had the C-section anyway.
ISTM that occasionally god’s aim needs some human help. And this is one of those occasions. Once that guy has been killed, god’s actual plan comes closer to be fulfilled on earth.
Or at least that’s what any actual follower might conclude.
Fuck Texas.