When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the abortion debate. In reality, it simply gave the courts a macabre new task: deciding how far states can push a patient toward death before allowing her to undergo an emergency abortion.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit offered its own answer, declaring that Texas may prohibit hospitals from providing “stabilizing treatment” to pregnant patients by performing an abortion—withholding the procedure until their condition deteriorates to the point of grievous injury or near-certain death.
The ruling proves what we already know: Roe’s demise has transformed the judiciary into a kind of death panel that holds the power to elevate the potential life of a fetus over the actual life of a patient.
6th Grade Biology taught us that an ‘ectopic pregnancy’ is, by definition, unviable. By their own Book, God creates ectopic pregnancies so They can have the pleasure of destroying an innocent soul.
Reminder that, in Ohio, Republicans pushed a bill that would have required doctors to reimplant ectopic pregnancies in the uterus. A medical technique that doesn’t exist. So doctors who didn’t do this non-existent technique would be “guilty of murder” and doctors who tried it and failed (because it’s not a thing we can do) would also be guilty. And either way, the woman would likely die.
Well, that’s the most insane thing I’ve ever seen in politics, bravo
Jeezus yeah it is. I guess Ohio became a meme for a reason, huh
Between that and Gym Jordan they’re clearly vying for most north Florida of the states.
That’s the thing. It’s okay when their god kills a fetus for fun. But we’re never supposed to no matter what.
They literally want to investigate every miscarriage as a potential murder
Yes. The objective is to punish women for the crime of having sex.
Punish poor women.
The Rich and Politician daughters and mistresses will still have full access to abortions under the guise of health retreat/2 week vacation/etc etc.
Well, as long as daddy/hubby approve. In their ideal world, they’d be able to control this as well, and bring about the end of no-fault divorce, etc.
Punish other women
The only moral abortion is my abortion
Sex with anyone but them, mind. You know they’d have no issues flying their mistresses to a more permissive state for an abortion.
Having unauthorized sex. Look at that GOP woman who was having three ways to ‘save her marriage.’ It was fine for her to have relations with another woman as long as the owner approved.
Which is absolutely insane, especially considering 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage (and that’s just confirmed pregnancies! The actual number is likely higher!)
From what I recall it’s actually the majority of pregnancies that end in miscarriage, it’s just that they usually occur before the woman can even really notice she was pregnant or is having a miscarriage. From the woman’s perspective she may of had a particularly unpleasant monthly period when it was actually a miscarriage. It’s one of those things no one likes to acknowledge because people find it disturbing and it completely undermines a lot of assumptions people like to make about “the miracle of life”.
Yes, I think if it ends in the first 4 or 5 weeks it’s considered a “chemical pregnancy” and doesn’t even count towards the stats. It’s extremely common. The whole point of not announcing your pregnancy in the first 12 weeks is because it’s so common to not make it past 12 weeks
Meanwhile, the backlog of untested rape kits keeps growing and growing…
Priorities.