It's Sunday

It's definitely not the first time "Christians" have made people suffer (particularly women).  It's still evil.  Evil in the name of God.

The court noted the case would remain pending before them but did not include any timeline on when a full ruling might be issued.

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"[P]eople should not need to beg for healthcare in a court of law.”

  CNN

I've been avoiding posting about this case, and I don't know why.  But it involves a woman whose pregnancy has been determined to possibly risk her life and her future ability to have children.  She filed suit to be allowed to have an abortion.  She was granted the right in an emergency ruling from the district court.  Texas' evil AG, Ken Paxton, filed suit to overturn the ruling and promised to prosecute anyone who has anything to do with giving a woman an abortion.  Looks like evil won - for now.  

“Ms. Cox is currently 20 weeks pregnant, and she has been to three different emergency rooms in the last month due to severe cramping and unidentifiable fluid leaks,” according to the lawsuit. “Because Ms. Cox has had two prior cesarean surgeries (‘C-sections’), continuing the pregnancy puts her at high risk for severe complications threatening her life and future fertility, including uterine rupture and hysterectomy.”

The lawsuit says Cox’s baby was diagnosed with trisomy 18 and is not expected to live more than a few days outside the womb. “Ms. Cox’s physicians have informed her that their ‘hands are tied’ and she will have to wait until her baby dies inside her or carry the pregnancy to term, at which point she will be forced to have a third C-section, only to watch her baby suffer until death,” the lawsuit states.

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Texas law prohibits abortion after approximately six weeks, except to save the life of the mother or to prevent “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, other than a psychological condition.”

  CNN

Because in Texas, women are merely vessels. Their minds are irrelevant.

Cox’s OB-GYN, Dr. Damla Karsan, has a “good faith belief” that Cox falls under the legal exception to the abortion ban, but can’t provide the abortion without a court order because she “cannot risk loss of her medical license, life in prison, and massive civil fines” if her belief is not accepted by the courts.

And this is why the state should not be involved in medical decisions.

If the Texas Supreme Court does not allow the abortion to go forward, I presume this case would go to the Supreme Court of the United States.  After Dobbs, they better not refuse to take it.

And please God (yeah, sarcastic), may the woman get her abortion before it's too late.

UPDATE 12/11/2023:

I worry Texas will try to arrest her.

UPDATE 12/11/2023 07:22 pm:  She was right to leave.

So if the doctor's belief isn't enough, whose opinion matters?  The governor's? Church lady's?  

UPDATE 12/12/2023:

That the majority that penned Dobbs and the Texas Supreme Court decided that they all knew better is conclusive proof that nobody cared enough about Kate Cox’s next pregnancy, or her desire for an actual viable baby.

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Who is responsible for this horrific turn of events? Those who opt to vote for politicians who so fetishize pregnancy and childbirth that they will let courts mandate that nonpregnancies and unsuccessful childbirth are materially more important than actual pregnant people and actual viable babies. And in the same breath, these people scream that they won’t let anyone tell their kids what books to read. They won’t let anyone tell them if they can purchase a gun. They have less than no patience for any entity that purports to regulate how they speak. But for some reason, they expect pregnant people to cede complete and unbounded authority to anyone with a legal opinion on maternal health care, because the last remaining class of people who are wholly imaginary in America is the pregnant ones.

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It is one thing for jurists to inhabit a world in which fake people with fake facts drive doctrine for the rest of us. It’s another matter entirely when actual people with real facts—real pain, real suffering, real bleeding, and real babies who will really die or suffer before they die—don’t matter enough to inspire judges to act with humanity. Dobbs was never about protecting mothers, or their babies. It was about control, and the abject awfulness of what the state of Texas has imposed on Kate Cox, her family, and her doctor makes that plain. It is about pretending to respect maternity and modesty and medicine while insulting all three, and calling it “law.”

  Slate