The US’s descent into a religious autocracy continues…
Louisiana Lawmakers Vote to Make Abortion Pills Controlled Substances https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/politics/louisiana-abortion-pills-controlled-substances.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Wait a minute, below is the counter argument from your article… pregnant women are exempt. But if you just took these drugs and are no longer pregnant, could they then arrest you if you can’t prove you had a prescription?
Republicans and the powerful anti-abortion group Louisiana Right to Life have disputed those concerns and accused abortion rights groups of fomenting unnecessary fear. As with most abortion restrictions and bans, pregnant women would be exempt from the criminal penalties imposed by the bill, which can include thousands of dollars in fines and up to five years in jail.
I assume it means that in theory they’re only going after the providers. (And some providers have said they’re happy to commit to never going to Louisiana for the rest of their lives and they don’t believe their own state will extradite.)
In practice… who knows?
Isn’t it god’s will that a woman die of her ectopic pregnancy?
I’ve heard more than a few woman say they were told that after they had abortions due to ectopic pregnancy. Their friends and neighbors were quite disappointed in them not going through with the pregnancy.
They might live nearby, but they ain’t no (coll) neighbors nor friends.
I’m not sure how a state decides a drug is a “controlled substance,” when the FDA does that for the whole country.
It might be G-d’s will that a woman die from such a condition, but it also might be G-d’s will that a way to prevent that death exists and is available.
That’s … the mystery of G-d.
God truly works in mysterious ways. It’s wrong for women to get treatment for ectopic pregnancies, but totally fine for a man to have quintuple bypass surgery or use Viagra to overcome an inability to have an erection.
I assume the same way that states decided that marijuana wasn’t a controlled substance.
Still was schedule 1 (until recently) regardless what the states did. The states simply didn’t enforce. DEA/etc. could still arrest you federally.
Not exactly. If the federal government legalizes marijuana. states could not make it illegal.
Depends on what “legalizes” means. If the federal gov’t simply says there are no federal penalties, that doesn’t stop states from having their own penalties.
For example, AFAIK, there is no federal law that prohibits casino gambling, but some states prohibit it.
I think the feds would have to explicitly forbid states from restricting marijuana if that’s the result they want.
That presumes the current SCOTUS majority believes the Supremacy Clause would apply, and that it wouldn’t adopt some dissenting position from Gonzalez v. Raich (2005) with a bizarre twist.
A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it. So now the philosophy professor and finance professor are suing for the right to punish their students who, outside of class, have abortions.
“Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not ‘health care,’” University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield. Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of “voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse,” students should not be allowed time off to get abortions. If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students. Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women “criminals.”
Oh, those old white fundamentalist profs at Baylor and Texas Christian… WHAT? Austin??
This is perhaps the best part of the suit:
Even though Bonevac and Hatfield work in Austin, Texas, they filed their lawsuit 486 miles away in Amarillo, Texas. The reason for this is not mysterious: Donald Trump-appointed judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.
I just don’t understand how people think that this is what should happen:
It’s god’s will that women suffer like this?
Infant mortality rate rose in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows | AP News?
From the article:
Among causes of deaths, birth defects showed a 23% increase, compared to a decrease of about 3% in the rest of the U.S.
FFS. Forcing women to carry babies to full term with congenital birth defects that everyone knows are going to die is barbaric. Such needless suffering.
“Accidentally”