The legal fight between Kate Cox and Texas courts over her medical emergency underscores the need for states to quickly clarify their sweeping anti-abortion laws Ariana Baio and Kelly Rissman report
The four emergency room visits, emotional turmoil, possibility of infertility and her foetus’ fatal diagnosis were not enough for Texas to allow Kate Cox to get an abortion, illuminating a major issue with the state’s strict abortion ban: ambiguous language that undermines exceptions to the law.
On Monday, the state’s ultra-conservative supreme court reversed a lower court’s emergency order initially granting Ms Cox an abortion. The court claimed she did not meet the state’s requirement to have an abortion but noted that it was up to a physician to determine when an abortion was warranted, not a court.
The ruling directly contradicted what the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and Ms Cox’s doctor argued about the urgency of her case. It also provided little clarity on the state’s interpretation of the law.
Ultimately, Ms Cox couldn’t wait for the court to decide the fate of her body. Her condition was so dire that she ended up fleeing Texas to seek care.
4th article like this I see today. Don’t judges have better things to do… I can’t believe “the richest nation on earth” wastes its time doing this shit to women for some sick sense of control. SmAlL goVERnmEnT amarite
Right? Isn’t that the party that was worried about death panels with Obamacare? Now we have actual abortion panels deciding whether someone can get medical treatment. Ugh, this is disgusting.
Small government = a few individuals with all the governing power to dictate what others can do. Who needs a large enough one with checks and balances?
They literally have nothing else they’d rather be doing.
There is learning opportunity in this for everyone. I mean everyone and every which side. Its sad that there WILL be collateral damage and I wish as a society “everyone” didn’t need to ALWAYS fall down the cliff to find out whats at the bottom
Edit: part of the usefulness of the Bible is experiencing things second-hand so you can absorb the lesson and not have to necessarily end up in all the situations. I don’t know why its advocates fail to internalize this lesson and really apply where it is best applied
Sadly the Bible is not something that should be taken literally. It shouldn’t be used as an example of anything these days. It shouldn’t be mentioned when we are making laws. This goes for Any religious handbook as religion has no business being in the decision making for anything that affects everyone.
I mostly agree; I just mean for those who want to find meaning in it, its ironic that they cannot or will not just directly grasp some of the situations and ever apply it in reasonable way that everyone else can at least not be hurt by. Its not going away so we need to be able to engage with people with or without it.
With respect, I was in sales and one of the important concepts is taking objections off the table. I am not so naïve to believe they actually belive whatever they spout as their justification, it is exactly that (a justification). Kill/shoot first, justify later.
I think its more important to defrock the Emperor, and then move in. That’s when they’re weakest
Edit: give me 5 minutes with Christian and I can get them to concede the following inescapably:
- We are all human
- Jesus was/is God made human/flesh and we are made in his image. Even the worst of the worst among us make apparent this basis, however you want to evaluate that
- His only law or rule is
Love others as you love yourself. - Consequently, the Old Testament is encapsulated and superseded and embodied by the content and natural implications of this revelation.
- We are not only covered IN blood (tradition of sin), but most importantly covered BY the blood (grace, salvation, belonging) in the sense of grace and availabillity or receptivity to salvation
*Even if you hate yourself, you should only give your best hospitality to people-based company/others/strangers, like a Good Samaritan. Let’s see some of that Southern Hospitality!
give me 5 minutes with Christian and I can get them to concede the following inescapably:
While I applaud your attitude, I seriously doubt your ability to make long term changes in attitude with hard core evangelicals.
While they may even agree with the points you made. Once the conversation is over they will revert to their long held beliefs.
An alcoholic will often agree they need to stop drinking and may even do so for a day or two, but that seldom changes the long term reality.
Working as intended.
What kind of brainless doink needed that “revealed” to them, they say it out loud non stop
The sort of person who assumes “obviously they’ll make exceptions when a woman’s life is in danger! Obviously!” Despite the legions of people saying this was always going to happen.
As I say below (or above, not sure how it appears for you lol), I have of course heard those people say that, but I don’t really believe they think it, and if they somehow do they’re complicit in the harm by virtue of being too uncaring to do the slightest exploration of the world around them
The kind of person who said this sort of thing wouldn’t happen when people said this would happen.
They knew, it was just the minimizing and dismissive language their trainers gave them to say.
If there does exist some magical person who really believed the GOP has a line when it comes to harm, then they can be held complicit anyway under the charge of being “a massive tool who lacks the empathy or care to explore one iota of the world around them”
If the process is to risk going to jail and being required to pay thousands in legal fees to avoid jail then there are no exceptions, just variable penalties.
