New York clerk again refuses to enforce Texas judgment against doctor who provided abortion pills
New York clerk again refuses to enforce Texas judgment against doctor who provided abortion pills
True story.
One night a woman came to our Catholic hospital ER in Central Texas because she was sexually assaulted.
The doctor prescribed Plan B because the victim didn't want to carry her rapist's baby.
Our hospital refused to dispense it. Poor woman had to wait two days to get it from CVS.
This is the reality
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
"Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!"
Lots of hospitals were started by churches.
One of Texas's biggest medical providers is the Methodist Health System, with 12 full-fledged hospitals and over 100 clinics that started as a hospital in Houston founded by the Methodist church. For most people, it's just another hospital. The church doesn't get any of the money or anything.
Catholic hospitals, however, are a little more notorious for denying care based on religious principles - with abortion and birth control being the big one. They won't do abortions, offer contraceptives, or perform vasectomies, for instance.
The Seventh Day Adventists also have a shit ton of hospitals, the largest among the Protestant denominations iirc. You’ve probably heard of the Kellogg families impact on things like popularizing circumcision…
SDAs also have a substantial impact on the modern conspiracy theory landscape. The cult at Waco was an offshoot, Bill Cooper incorporated their propaganda in his weirdo narrative, if you live in the US you’ve probably got their book mailed about the “Sunday Law”….
Fun facts (they are not fun):
After a forced stay in their psych ward, my local Catholic Hospital asked me if I "felt the light of god during [my] stay?" They also don't prescribe birth control and have a general hate-boner for having to help fat women. I had to teach my doctor what a trans person is and how to address one (this decade).
Anyway, they bought all the medical buildings in all the towns near me. Woo!
Organized medical care has a long history of being carried out by members of religious orders, with formal doctors and nurses being pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
"Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!"
What's a Catholic hospital? It is a scram!
There's a lot of Catholic-owned hospitals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_health_care
Sorry to ask, but if such a place didn’t want to dispense it, why would they have it? Am I not understanding something about pharmacies here?
They should have it for the same reason they should have aspirin its called for.
I work in a Catholic hospital. They think it will encourage "abortion". They would rather women carry a rapist's baby than help them to heal.
CVS is not a Catholic hospital. She got one from CVS and had her family to bring it in to the hospital.
Beware of Catholic hospital.
Texas politicians are so shit they need to infect other states.
Get your shit together Texas.
They won't.
We'll just have to do what we've always done and sit back and watch Texans continually punch themselves in the face because they can't figure things out.
they have a flooding, and this is all they could think about.
“While I’m not entirely sure how things work in Texas, here in New York, a rejection means the matter is closed,” Bruck wrote in a letter to Texas officials.
I imagine Paxton blew a gasket over that. Lmao.
Fugitive Slave Acts all over again.
"State's rights for me, federalism for you."
every conservative state
Poor boy has had a rough week, first his wife says she wants a divorce because of his adultery and now he finds out he's impotent in a different state.
Being a dog fearing christian is tough in this day and age, especially when you're actually a shitbag.
There's absolutely no way in hell that it's just adultery, not when she explicitly says that she can't remain and still hold on to her 'Christian' values. Paxton has done a fuckton of things things that explicitly go against what Jesus taught in the four gospels, and against damn near everything that Paul wrote as well, so it's gotta be more than just extra-marital sex.
Sorry shitstain, other parts of the country actually allow women to have rights.
Go fail at saving some kids from drowning and let the civilized people do their thing.
Sorry, we don't handle verdicts from rogue nations
If reciprocal enforcement can allow Texas to force NY to follow their laws, then why can't NY force Texas to provide abortions?
Or enforce NY gun laws in Texas. They'll care a lot more about that.
Wouldn't the Texas requirement allow New York to challenge all the southern bullshit, like religion in schools, book bans, etc?
Do they want to open that can of worms?
Also, this makes as much sense as North Korea trying to get the US to abide by their laws.
Fugitive slave act redux
This is basically an extension of the law that compelled non-slave states to return escaped slaves to the owners in Southern states.
No state should be compelled to follow an immoral law in another state. Texas can't force NY to refuse to treat a patient, any more than NY can force Texas to provide an abortion.
Not rhetorical question: why don't more people buy and sell abortion pills on the dark web?
Because then it is not regulated. Meaning you'll have scammers selling fake abortion pills, which will do nothing. Or even worse, pills with something else that could get you addicted.
People are assholes, especially in a capitalist system. Regulation is necessary here.
pills with something else that could get you addicted.
It's hard to get addicted to an unknown substance you've taken unwillingly and don't know what it is in order to get another hit.
I'd be more considered about psychos selling literal poison.
thats what happened to me chews on a handful of abortion pills
as a drug addict let me tell you that black markets are not something to strive for economically
What choice do people have in a fascist theocracy?
Fraud?
Hochul, responding to the latest request from Paxton’s office, claimed he was attempting to dictate “the personal decisions of women across America.”
“Our response to their baseless claim is clear: no way in hell. New York won’t be bullied,” she said in a prepared statement. “And I’ll never back down from this fight.”
Ken Paxton is a dickless moron. Tell your friends.
Ken Paxton out here looking like he had a chemical peel.
alcohol and too much sun does that, also caucasian people dont do well under the sun or alcoholism, its the red flushing to the face.
Looks like a Chernobyl patient
To wit: there’s a NY state law that makes it illegal for state officials to help shit-ass states like Texas follow through on legal threats like this within the context of the NY legal system. This is that law working as intended.
Or more succinctly: lick my taint, Ken Paxton, you fucking imbecilic psychopath.
it's only a matter of time before the supreme court forces new york to comply; i hope that the doctor is prepared for this and finds another way to help with protecting themself.
when slavery was a thing, the shitty laws from shitty states to reclaim escaped slaves took primacy over laws from abolitionist states that would have protected them due to the supreme court and it took a war to overcome it.
The airport code is YYZ but driving up from Buffalo is cool too.
The US Supreme Court can't currently do what you say without a law change at the federal level.
Also, the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery (mostly) was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865 after the end of the US Civil War.
You'd think a world-class corporate news organiztion like Associated Press would be able to shoehorn that into the title somehow. And yet.
It's literally the second paragraph of the article. You'd think a literate person with time to write inane comments would be able to read the article. And yet.
What are you talking about???
In journalism, headlines have always been used to try to entice people into reading the article. Not to give the entire story so that people won't need to read the article.
That's a lot of information the shoe horn into the title when it seems perfectly reasonable just put it in the article itself. That's what articles are for after all, the context.