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TX Repugs have let one abortion clinic in RGV escape these "safety" regulations, probably hoping a bunch of the ladies will die from "unsafe" clinic.
Priscilla Owen of the 5th circuit is pure Repug judicial garbage
MORE! http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...entirely-dead/On Tuesday, a panel of three George W. Bush-appointed judges handed down a sweeping endorsement of the tactics anti-abortion lawmakers adopted in recent years in an effort to prevent abortion clinics from operating. With one narrow exception, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole is a total defeat for abortion providers who hoped to overcome a Texas law that will shut down most of the state’s abortion clinics. Worse for women seeking an abortion, the Fifth Circuit’s opinion would give many other states broad discretion to restrict access to abortion if its reasoning is ultimately adopted by the Supreme Court.
In 2013, Texas enacted HB2, which is one of a number of sham health laws passed by anti-abortion lawmakers who believe that they found a loophole in the Supreme Court’s abortion cases. Though current Supreme Court precedent forbids laws that impose an “undue burden” on the right to choose, states may enact legitimate health regulations that govern abortion providers — and for good reason. Abortion facilities, just like any other medical facility, should be sanitary, safe and operated by competent medical personnel.
HB2 is crafted to appear like a health regulation, even though it does little to actually advance the public health. The two provisions challenged in Whole Woman’s Health include a requirement that abortion doctors have admitting privileges in a nearby hospital, and a list of expensive architectural and other requirements that abortion clinics must comply with in order to operate. There is little evidence, however, that either provision actually advances the goal of making abortion safer for women. To the contrary, a federal district judge determined that “there is no rational relationship between improved patient outcomes and hospital admitting privileges,” and he reached similar conclusions with respect to the portions of the law regulating clinic facilities.
Before HB2, Texas had 40 licensed abortion clinics. If the law takes full effect, “only seven facilities and a potential eighth will exist in Texas that will not be prevented . . . from performing abortions.” This reduced access to abortion, according to the same district judge, “almost certainly cancel out any potential health benefit associated with” HB2 because of “higher health risks associated with increased delays in seeking early abortion care, risks associated with longer distance automotive travel on traffic-laden highways, and the act’s possible connection to observed increases in self-induced abortions.”
Texas legislators invoked safety standards in 2013 when they passed the law. Abortion providers, however, and mainstream medical organizations, maintain that it is not necessary to do first-trimester abortion in a hospital-like setting in order to perform them safely. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists notes that less than one half of one percent of all abortions involve major complications.
"The justice system and our elected politicians have put a road full of unnecessary hurdles in front of every woman in Texas who has decided to end her pregnancy," said Amy Hagstrom Miller, the founder of Whole Woman's Health, on Tuesday. "For scores of Texas women, the repercussions of this ruling will be devastating."
TX Repugs have let one abortion clinic in RGV escape these "safety" regulations, probably hoping a bunch of the ladies will die from "unsafe" clinic.
Priscilla Owen of the 5th circuit is pure Repug judicial garbage
Maybe so, but she wasn't on the 3 judge panel who issued this decision.
There's no doubt which way she would have "judged".
Repugs have stacked the 5th circuit with garbage and extremists to prejudice the South in its Confederate/retrograde bull .
It's a war only on POOR women's health access, contraception, abortions, those who can't afford travel, hotel, etc, dominated by blacks and browns.
Bible humpers, theocrats kicked in the gonads
Supreme Court Rejects North Carolina’s Appeal onPre-Abortion Ultrasounds
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from North Carolina officials seeking to revive a state law that had required doctors to perform ultrasounds, display the resulting sonograms and describe the fetuses to women seeking abortions.
The Supreme Court’s one-sentence order, as is the custom, gave no reasons. Justice Antonin Scalia noted a dissent,also without saying why.
The order left in place an appeals court ruling that had held the law uncons utional as a violation of the First Amendment.
“The state cannot commandeer the doctor-patient relationship to compel a physician to express its preference to the patient,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote in December for a unanimous three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. “This compelled speech, even though it is a regulation of the medical profession, is ideological in intent and in kind.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/16...unds.html?_r=0
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GOP senator: I can lecture women on pregnancy because abortion is a ‘men’s issue’
moreRepublican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma argued on Monday that he had the right to lecture women about whether or not they should get abortions because he had impregnated his wife and “had something to do with the birth.”
During a debate on the Senate floor about whether or not to defund Planned Parenthood, Lankford argued that the “culture has been wrong” to allow abortion.
Lankford said that it was “entirely reasonable” to take Planned Parenthood’s funding and “commit it to organizations who do full women’s health.”
Sen. Barbara Boxer, however, said that she was bothered by men like Lankford lecturing women about reproductive health.
“I just don’t like lectures by men about what it’s like,” Boxer told Lankford. “I’m pro-choice and I just have to say, using pregnancy as a political football doesn’t sit well with the people I represent and the people of this country.”
“We have to respect one another,” she continued. “I respect your view entirely. I’m asking you to respect mine. Keep Uncle Sam out of my private life and my children’s and my grandkids’ and your’s. Families will make these decisions with their God, with their doctor.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/gop-...-a-mens-issue/
standard Christian/Old Testatment (or any religion) bull to render women 2nd class, powerless humans, men being exclusively 1st and powerful.
Sorry to bully you more, but can you point out to me in that article where it mentions anything about…
- Christianity
- Old Testament
- Rendering women second class
- Rendering them as powerless humans
- Men being exclusively 1st and powerful
Thanks in advance!
Outlawing abortion won't stop abortion.
Christian Taliban/Repug War on WomenSorry to bully you more, but can you point out to me in that article where it mentions anything about…
- Christianity
- Old Testament
- Rendering women second class
- Rendering them as powerless humans
- Men being exclusively 1st and powerful
Thanks in advance!
...this poster has to be a paid shill or bot of some sort
Shooting sperm is hard.
and she probably didn't
Supreme Court To Hear Abortion Case That Could Erode Roe v. Wade
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000003
What are your thoughts if the father wants the baby (say the baby is past 5 months - viable outside the womb)? Does he not have any rights? Isn't the baby his too?
5 months is an extreme preemie condemned very probably to life long infirmities, diseases.
If they are still married, then it's question I can't answer.
If they are divorced, seprated, then if he wants to pay all the care and raise the kid by himself, then OK, he lay the claim under those conditions.
I'm talking about a healthy, viable baby - not with any incurable disease/disability (not that a disability is a dis-qualifier - I have a child with missing fingers). What happens when the mother doesn't want it and the father does?
5 months is not a healthy baby, it's not finished and viable.
Will you please let go of the 5 months - healthy, viable baby
5 months is not a healthy baby, it's not finished and viable.
What happens when the mother doesn't want a healthy, viable baby (in the womb) and the father does? Doesn't he have any rights? It's his baby too.
you're posing a very rare hypthetical, so it's useless. Most abortion are first trimester. late term abortions are nearly always because of defects in the foetus and/or risk to mother.
Abortion is allowable right up until birth in some states, is it not? So if the baby has some defect, that makes it okay? Good thing my daughter had the parents she has.
We would need new law to grant the father any rights. The mother obviously has inherent rights since she's the host and it's her life on the line. The state also has inherent rights in regulating abortion.
Right now, fathers have zero rights.
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