So… they’re trying to force her to carry the kid to term, right? How much you wanna bet that these folks are then going to make annoying noises about “anchor babies”? Poor girl is damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t.
How are other illegal immigrants treated when they come to the US for elective procedures? I assume, as the Texas AG says, that they don’t automatically get treatment.
Maybe the people who want to pay for her abortion can post bond, or something similar, get her released into their custody, get her the abortion, and then send her back to wherever she came from. Or adopt her, although I don’t know if they need consent from her birth parents.
The article only says she is from Central America. According to this cite, the abortion rate is 29 per thousand women. Coming from Central America to Texas, of all places, to get an abortion, may not have been the best choice, but maybe that was as far as she could make it.
Yes, I read that. I was wondering about other elective procedures apart from abortion. My understanding is that hospitals who are presented with a patient who cannot pay, are obligated to make sure their condition is stable before discharging them. I didn’t see any reference in the article that her pregnancy was anything other than routine. And she is only 14 weeks along - she isn’t in early labor or anything.
My thoughts are that she should probably be treated pretty much the same as any other illegal immigrant who comes to the US for elective treatment. If the abortion rights groups want to pay for her abortion, that’s fine with me - just ship her home afterwards, unless they also want to sponsor/adopt her. I agree with the Texas AG - “if you can sneak over the border, we will give you a free abortion” is not a message I want to spread.
Even if the way that any other illegal immigrant has been treated is as detailed in the ACLU suit?
So how do you feel about the fact that this isn’t a message that was ever going to be spread? As I quoted in the OP:
I have no evidence that this young lady asked the state or federal government to provide her with an abortion, but I do have evidence that no government funds were going to spent on the procedure.
Does the fact that the concern of the Texas AG isn’t a factor in the case he is arguing against have any impact on your thoughts about this?
Would you feel differently if sufficient money hadn’t been raised? If the case were based simply on the claimed right of a detainee to receive health care (at government cost) while in government custody?
(Tangentially, and irrelevantly, why is HHS involved in this?)
She was running from parents who were abusive. Apparently another sibling had gotten pregnant also. Must not have been a great place to grow up in. Where’s our compassion for this poor girl? I don’t agree with government paying for abortions, but I do agree with womens repoductive rights. I bet you there is a group who would jump in and care for her and give her options. Not helping is not the America I love!!
That’s a different situation and I’ll point out that providing health care to people in government custody IS something I want done. And in the case of abortions, I do not believe that any woman should be forced, through action or inaction, to carry a pregnancy to term. I would rather that the government pay for the procedure than, through inaction, force her to endanger her own life in order to terminate the pregnancy or carry to term.
However, if the policy in place is to not pay, then I understand the policy and can agree that it should be abided by until it is changed.
True, but the attorney didn’t say she was from Mexico, but from Central America. Technically, Mexico isn’t Central America, but maybe the attorney accidentally misspoke, or was deliberately vague or misleading, either to protect her privacy, or so as to conceal that she could have gotten the abortion in Mexico City. But who knows?
Maybe the ACLU in Texas thought this was a great test case so they could sue Texas for its stance on illegal immigration and abortion, too.
It is a bit of an overstatement that this message isn’t ever going to be spread. It is IMO better to be saying “you will get a free abortion from the ACLU” than “you will get a free abortion from the state of Texas”, but I have little faith in the idea that the ACLU is volunteering to pay for all the abortions for all the illegal immigrants that want one, from now on. If they were I could respect that, but I would still want them to deport the illegal immigrants afterwards. And I doubt that the ACLU is volunteering - this is just to get the camel’s nose under the tent of making abortion a special case, distinct from other elective procedures. Or maybe not distinct - maybe the ACLU wants illegal immigrants to get free health care as well as not to be deported.
Obviously that’s mostly speculation on my part. But I think things are a bit more complicated than “abortion good, enforcing the immigration laws bad, Texas against abortion and for enforcing the immigration laws, therefore Texas bad”. YMMV.
How do you know that she was coming to the US for an abortion, as opposed to coming for other reasons and the abortion being incidental? And for that matter, she has no particular right to remain in Mexico, either.
I meant “never going to be spread by this case”. It won’t. Because that isn’t what’s happening. The only people spreading that message are lying about what is happening.
Okay, wow; that covers a whole bunch of stuff not happening here and features a ton of speculation.
Okay, more examples of speculation.
Yep, it was.
More speculation and possibly some projection, IMO; no one has said anything even remotely like that or made any kind of inferences that parallel that.