Who could possible have foreseen?
Oh right, everyone.
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Bump for GA judge, whose life is likely in danger:
He said the record in the case is clear that “for many women, their pregnancy was unintended, unexpected, and often unknown until well after the embryonic heartbeat began. Yet that’s too late under the LIFE Act’s strictures: these women are now forbidden from undoing that life-altering change of circumstances — before they even knew the change had occurred.”
"For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could — or should — force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another,” the judge wrote.
Oh, you want to see medical records to check for abortions? Fuck off!
The law has no “definition of ‘health records.’ No explanation of the means by which the district attorney obtains such records: warrant, subpoena, demand letter, e-mail? And no mention of any notice to be provided to the ‘woman’ whose ‘health records’ have been made ‘available,’” the judge wrote.
“Given this language, Plaintiffs contend that the provision unconstitutionally violates their patients’ right to privacy by empowering prosecutors to obtain personal medical information without sufficient process. Plaintiffs are correct,” he added.
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GA Supreme Court says we reject your well reasoned legal opinion and substitute our magic sky fairy instead.
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More specifically, they reinstated the ban during the appeal process.
I posted about this in another thread here, but this same judge also recently ruled that election boards must certify the GA election in a blow to the election deniers. This was already clear in the law, but MAGA doesn’t care about that so it had to be emphasized.
Tangent: I hate the magic sky fairy language, partially because it’s deliberately confrontational and mocking of those with religious beliefs. In the abortion debate, I think it is also counterproductive as it frames the subject as being religious vs non-religious. There are plenty of religious people who are pro-choice.
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SCOTUS declined to hear an appeal of the Alabama IVF decision that established fetal personhood within Alabama. This is perhaps the correct legal decision (there is no conflict with another court, and Alabama has changed the law to add some IVF protections so the case is arguably moot), but it would be nice to have SCOTUS reject fetal personhood. I don’t know if the current court would, but suspect based on the fact that they aren’t hearing the case that Alito et al don’t think they have 5 votes.
IIRC Roe punted on that question, with the court saying deciding when personhood started was a legislative function. IS that right?
“In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects.”
Shocking result
Did you forget the red? Because it seems like studies with obvious results.
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Whoever could’ve predicted the increase in material and infant mortality?
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I can’t say for certain what I would do in that situation, but I believe it would be heartbreaking to be told your baby was going to experience pain and suffering in their very short lives before an almost certain death, and have no options but to watch it play out.
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15 minute video from pre-Dobbs of a woman telling her story about being in that situation. I guarantee that it will make you cry if you watch it, but it also has a happy ending (after the sad one).
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I didn’t forget… it’s just too hard to do on this site.
Even worse when that doomed fetus is threatening the life of the mother, but she has to go through a risky birth hoping that she won’t die before her baby inevitably passes away and is no longer in pain a day or two later.
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You also have to consider the expectant mothers who can’t afford proper prenatal care and these laws are shutting down many Planned Parenthood centers
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A group of Ob-gyns wrote an open letter condemning Texas’ abortion laws. Article with context and an embedded link to the letter:
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Scary and shocking, but should it be considered unexpected?