Texas abortion case goes before state's highest court, as more women join lawsuit
Texas abortion case goes before state's highest court, as more women join lawsuit
On Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court will consider this question: Are the state's abortion laws harming women when they face pregnancy complications?
The case, brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights, has grown to include 22 plaintiffs, including 20 patients and two physicians. They are suing Texas, arguing that the medical exceptions in the state's abortion bans are too narrow to protect patients with complicated pregnancies. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is fiercely defending the state's current abortion laws and arguing that the case should be dismissed.
At a hearing in Austin on Tuesday, the nine Texas Supreme Court justices will consider whether to apply a temporary injunction that a lower court judge ruled should be in place. That injunction would give doctors greater discretion to perform abortions when a doctor determines that a woman's health is threatened or that a fetus has a condition that could be fatal. It would make more people eligible for exceptions to Texas's abortion bans, but it would not overturn those laws.
Dr. Dani Mathisen, 28, is one of seven new plaintiffs who joined the case earlier this month. She is in her medical residency as an OB-GYN and comes from a family of physicians, so when she was pregnant in 2021 and getting a detailed ultrasound test at 18 weeks gestation, she knew something was very wrong.
Fucking government shouldn't even be in this position. Abortions should be between the doctor and the patient and definitely doctor's should preform the Abortion when it is necessary to save the woman's life. Fuck the government when going overthrow these fucking facsiest?
I want to point out that it's specifically Christian fascists that are the major driver of this. There is a powerful organization called Project Blitz that operates in the USA with the stated goals of removing separation of church and state, including the result of restricting abortion severely.
We need an explicit right to privacy. Basically not just codifying roe in the “legalize abortion” way (though abortion needs to be legalized), but also solidify the foundation of everything built upon roe. And it needs to be a federal constitutional amendment.
We took a lot of rights for granted that were built on the implied right to privacy. The government shouldn’t get to decide what medicines you’re allowed to take so long as they are prescribed by a physician in good standing following a reasonable interpretation of sufficiently up to date research. The government shouldn’t get to decide what you do in your sex life so long as everyone involved is a consenting person who has reached the age of majority. Certain things shouldn’t get to be politics and personal medical decisions are on that list.
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All medical decisions should be between a patient and their doctor, and governments and corporations should have no say in it nor have the ability to use force or coercion to effect any medical decisions.
I'm pro-choice, but I don't agree it's that black and white.
I don't support, for example, the right for a MAGA doctor to feed a patient bleach or ivermectin as a COVID cure. I also think the FDA should exist.
definitely doctor's should preform the Abortion when it is necessary to save the woman's life
But this is absolutely true. Its wrong for the goverment to restrict or dissuade scientifically proven effective medical care.
Performed when requested, no questioned asked.
when it is necessary to save the woman’s life
This is where you stole autonomy. You were doing so well until you dictated terms over someone else.
No I believe woman should get abortion anytime and for any reason or no reason. But the argument the Supreme Court is going decide if one can be preform to save a woman's life and it shouldn't even be up to the Court to decide this.
Friendly reminder that Texas sucks. Republicans suck too.
Interpret "don't mess with Texas" in the broadest sense by avoiding it entirely.
It's funny that don't mess with Texas was an anti-litter campaign.
Texas talks a lot of shit for a state that can't keep the lights on.
"Are the state’s abortion laws harming women when they face pregnancy complications?" Yes. Will the Texas Supreme Court do anything about that? I doubt it.
Still a state court, which doesn’t give me hope that this issue might be resolved. If it goes higher, I’m still of the opinion that it won’t. Why is it so hard for people to understand that this issue is between a woman and her doctor?