I’m shocked they have 4 women on the Texas Supreme Court.
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I haven’t been to the Texas Supreme Court but I’ve been to the capitol. It’s impressive how even the most mundane detail (doorknobs, door hinges, light fixtures, you name it) exudes Texas. The lone star is everywhere!
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Yeah, oops. My bad.
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So, technically not all that “lone,” eh?
Heh, yeah. But some things are the name of the state or the outline of it. Not everything is the star. It’s certainly the most state-prideful place I’ve ever been, although Alaska and Hawaii both come close.
On the plus side, Kate Cox was able to leave Texas to get medical care. And is having legal representation through the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is one of the better organizations I know of for this.
On the down side, the Texas Supreme Court, after CRR announced that Cox was no longer in the state, over ruled the lower court and said that she couldn’t get her abortion within Texas.
On the plus side, two of the TX Supreme Court Justices are up for re-election in November 2024, one of whom has been arrested 37 times for protesting abortion and is generally a creepy guy, and that might help drive up Democratic turnout.
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On the down side: there’s still a shitload of Republicans in Texas, and despite Democrats beating the bushes trying to get Abbott out of the governor’s seat he still got re-elected by double digits - so he’ll probably get re-elected, and the chances of him getting impeached much less removed is 0. Oh, and Republicans added a seat in both halves of the state legislature.
It’s to the point that Republicans could run a dead armadillo for a state office while Democrats ran a direct descendant of Davey Crockett or Sam Houston and Republicans would still win without breaking much of a sweat.
To 25%?
More like it will drive up the GOP voters to vote for a living martyr.
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I’m pleasantly surprised to see that’s hella against the TX judicial Code of Conduct, though I don’t expect it to be enforced: https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1457109/texas-code-of-judicial-conduct.pdf
A judge shall conduct all of the judge’s extrajudicial activities so that they do not cast reasonable doubt on the judge’s capacity to act impartially as a judge
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does TX law have the extra bonkers level of punishment for people who assist in taking someone out of state for the procedure?
Pretty sure it does.
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To my knowledge it hasn’t been challenged yet, so yes. Speculation was that it would fall, but that’s no guarantee (see TX ruling that this woman has to be absolutely dying with no guarantee of being salvageable before doctors can intervene.)
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I have never read about a state law.
Multiple counties have passed ordinances that
make it illegal for anyone to transport a pregnant woman through the county, or pay for her travel, for the purpose of seeking an abortion.
In Texas, Abortion ‘Travel Ban’ Gains Momentum - The New York Times.
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Had hoped to provide a link to the Globe and Mail article on this but my gifts are used up for the month. A couple of excerpts on an Idaho article will have to suffice. Profitability coupled with changing abortion laws I seems to be a problem.
** Labour and delivery units have been closing across the country for decades. That’s what’s leading to the worsening maternal morbidity and mortality,” said Leilah Zahedi-Spung, a maternal-fetal medicine physician and family planning provider who moved to Colorado this year from Tennessee, where lawmakers made abortion a felony crime.
Changes related to abortion laws are “only going to accelerate” childbirth deaths, she said. They may also widen gaps in the quality of care between states where doctors are free to provide service and those where they are constrained.
The new law in Idaho may have delivered the final blow, but the closure of obstetrics at Bonner General was, in some ways, years in the making. The medical compensation structure in the United States means that birthing services are “money losers, even in good years,” said Ford Elsaesser, a bankruptcy lawyer who chairs the hospital’s board. Just about any other service – including colonoscopies, mammograms, knee replacements and gall bladder surgery – is more profitable.
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can’t they consider it a necessary loss leader?
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But that is how those socialists in Canada would handle it.
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21 posts were split to a new topic: The wealth of hospitals
They’re gaining a customer!!
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Being a Canadian, I have a simple philosophy about medical care. You should have coverage for all necessary basic care without any financial obstacles to having it.
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Good point. Let’s get back to abortion. In fact, i think I’ll move a bunch of posts to their own thread …