Texas Attorney General blocks woman from getting abortion.
Dec 9, 2023 11:18:27 #
This is the result of oppressive laws that take away individual rights.
The following is a cut and paste from today's New York Times.
Remember, if they can take away her rights, they can take away yours.
"The Texas Supreme Court late Friday temporarily halted a lower court order allowing a Dallas woman to obtain an abortion in spite of the state’s strict bans, after she learned her fetus has a fatal condition.
The state court’s ruling was in response to an appeal from Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, who opposed the woman’s abortion.
The Supreme Court said that, “without regard to the merits” of the arguments on either side, it had issued an administrative stay in the case, to give itself more time to issue a final ruling.
The stay meant that, for the moment, the order from a judge in Travis County district court permitting the abortion was on hold. That order allowed the woman, Kate Cox, to obtain an abortion and protected her doctor from civil or criminal liability under Texas’s overlapping abortion bans.
The following is a cut and paste from today's New York Times.
Remember, if they can take away her rights, they can take away yours.
"The Texas Supreme Court late Friday temporarily halted a lower court order allowing a Dallas woman to obtain an abortion in spite of the state’s strict bans, after she learned her fetus has a fatal condition.
The state court’s ruling was in response to an appeal from Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, who opposed the woman’s abortion.
The Supreme Court said that, “without regard to the merits” of the arguments on either side, it had issued an administrative stay in the case, to give itself more time to issue a final ruling.
The stay meant that, for the moment, the order from a judge in Travis County district court permitting the abortion was on hold. That order allowed the woman, Kate Cox, to obtain an abortion and protected her doctor from civil or criminal liability under Texas’s overlapping abortion bans.
Dec 9, 2023 11:32:46 #
I'm not a fan of abortion, but I don't think that its the purview of elected officials to make medical decisions.
37 years ago a good friend and his wife had a spina-bifida baby. If the baby cried, he stopped breathing. He died at about 3 months; the doctors advised with other problems he was in pain from the moment he was born. The trouble ended up destroying their marriage. My wife was pregnant at the time and we decided to have an amnio done. If there was a problem I wasn't sure what we would do. The person before us we were told was having her 3rd abortion, she was using it as birth control; that's just wrong. Our amnio was ok, she was delivered normally and she's now a top-notch medical person.
In a situation similar to the woman in Texas, a family member was advised in the 2nd trimester that her baby was dying and would not survive birth. She was also told without intervention, she would lose her ability to have more children. She went ahead with the procedure, and was able to later successfully give birth to two children. The fetus was given a Christian burial. She still mourns the first, but that procedure gave two new lives a chance. A non-medical person should not have the right to play God with medical decisions.
37 years ago a good friend and his wife had a spina-bifida baby. If the baby cried, he stopped breathing. He died at about 3 months; the doctors advised with other problems he was in pain from the moment he was born. The trouble ended up destroying their marriage. My wife was pregnant at the time and we decided to have an amnio done. If there was a problem I wasn't sure what we would do. The person before us we were told was having her 3rd abortion, she was using it as birth control; that's just wrong. Our amnio was ok, she was delivered normally and she's now a top-notch medical person.
In a situation similar to the woman in Texas, a family member was advised in the 2nd trimester that her baby was dying and would not survive birth. She was also told without intervention, she would lose her ability to have more children. She went ahead with the procedure, and was able to later successfully give birth to two children. The fetus was given a Christian burial. She still mourns the first, but that procedure gave two new lives a chance. A non-medical person should not have the right to play God with medical decisions.
Dec 11, 2023 20:10:51 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
rwoodvira wrote:
I'm not a fan of abortion, but I don't think that ... (show quote)
I'm waiting for the "Texas Christian Right" on this forum, (you know who you are) to tell us that if God wanted her to have an abortion he would have given her one. Also, how is it that Paxton is still running around free?
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