Roe v Wade Overturned

Botch

HeavyG said:

So how long after she returns to Texas before some Texas residents, or perhaps even the Attorney General, use Texas law to sue her and anyone who helped her get the abortion? One hour?

Pretty much guarantee they're already working on it.  

Eggpharmer

I can't say I'm surprised but this is just ridiculous

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/texas-abortion-kate-cox.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20231211&instance_id=109913&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=86903780&segment_id=152353&te=1&user_id=df5fdd8070b8bcf5d2c21fb43d7558a6

Legume

https://youtu.be/5UtXIhTRFLk?feature=shared

Legume

YouTube links never embed for me.  I may quit them.







nah.

StillH2OEgger

What level-headed physician would ever possibly want to practice in that state?

Legume

I wouldn't want to guess and speak for anyone, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does impact the number of future doctors that choose medical schools in Texas and ultimately choose to practice in Texas.

JohnInCarolina

Botch

That's a bonus, come tax time.  

JohnInCarolina

Botch

From today's Robert Reich message:
 

Now, Trump can't sidestep his key role in banning abortions

Friends,

Today, Arizona’s highest court, in a 4-to-2 decision, upheld an Arizona law dating from 1864 that bans nearly all abortions.

The law, which was on the books long before Arizona achieved statehood, outlaws abortion from the moment of conception, except when necessary to save the life of the mother. It makes no exceptions for rape or incest. Doctors prosecuted under the law could face fines and prison terms of two to five years.

The ruling should make Trump squirm. In trying to escape direct responsibility for overturning Roe v. Wade, Trump said yesterday that he thought abortion rights should be left up to the states to decide. Yet in overturning Roe, Trump’s Supreme Court invited Arizona’s total ban.

The Arizona Supreme Court based its decision on the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe. The Arizona court stated that because the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion, there is now no federal or state law stopping Arizona from enforcing its old near-total abortion ban, which had sat dormant for decades. Hence, without a federal right, Arizona has no choice but to enforce the law on the books.

It’s all Trump’s doing. In 2016, during a debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump pledged to remake the US Supreme Court with nominees who were against abortion. “The justices that I am going to appoint will be pro-life,” he promised.

Later in that debate, Trump predicted his nominees would help deliver the end of Roe v. Wade. “Well, if we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that will happen. That will happen automatically in my opinion because I am putting pro-life justices on the court.”

Trump’s “pro-life” justices reversed Roe — thereby leaving it up to the states whether to ban abortion. And so Arizona has now resurrected its 1864 law which did just that. Trump can’t escape responsibility.

Traitor's little abortion speech from the other day managed to piss off both sides, quite badly.  While the Far Right presented that they thought the decision was supposed to go to the states, that wasn't really their intention; but now their Dear Leader is reinforcing that smoke-screen.  
Interesting Times.  

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina

Canugghead

https://x.com/NicoleL333/status/1834635068121244125

DoubleEgger

Canugghead said:

https://x.com/NicoleL333/status/1834635068121244125

I hope our friends at the Secret Service took note of this. 

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina said:

I just like how he paints his face Trump orange.

Botch

While "Belle of the Fifth Column" has done a pretty good job of replacing Beau on his channel, I do kinda miss him.  This popped up on EweTube and I've not seen it before, and the premise was very unusual for both of them.  
Not super-clever, but maybe worth a watch for anyone who may have followed Beau/Belle:
 
https://youtu.be/FoP7q6zrS-Q?si=egoo2mx9hS-XZOeI

JohnInCarolina

Hard to articulate the anger I felt reading this:

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

Legume

This scares the hell out of me - my worst fears.  My daughter lives in Texas and had one child with some minor complications and I'm sure she wants to have more. Helpless is one shtty way to feel.

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina said:

Hard to articulate the anger I felt reading this:

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

Sadly that is not an isolated incident. 

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina