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TX Repugs admit that defunding family centers is a war on contraception. Estimates are that there will be 20K unwanted TX births/year, and so 100s if not 1000s more abortions thanks to Repugs ing around in (poor) womens' vaginas.
Another victory for those who want the govt out of their lives.Supreme Court keeps sonogram injunction
Abbott says he'll continue looking for ways to defend controversial law.
AUSTIN — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to overrule a federal judge's preliminary injunction preventing Texas from enforcing a strict abortion sonogram law scheduled to take effect Saturday.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott submitted an emergency application Wednesday night to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for the court to stay the preliminary injunction.
The setback triggered a wait-and-see response from Abbott.
“Our office continues to evaluate our options in defending the statute,” Abbott spokesman Jerry Strickland said Thursday afternoon.
The sonogram bill, HB 12, was a priority for Republican lawmakers and one of Gov. Rick Perry's “emergency” bills.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of Austin blocked enforcement of significant portions of the sonogram law Aug. 30, until the case is resolved.
Sparks found the law violates the First Amendment, ruling that requiring doctors to show a woman seeking an abortion the sonogram images, describe those images to her or play the sound of the fetal heart, even against her wishes, is uncons utional.
“The district court's decision to block portions of this new law, which is intrusive and uncons utional, was well-supported. There is no basis for the State's attempts to short-circuit the legal process by trying to nullify the court's decision on an emergency basis,” said Julie Rikelman, senior staff attorney with the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights.
Abbott went to Scalia after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reverse Sparks' preliminary injunction.
At a hearing in July, Sparks indicated some discomfort with portions of the bill that critics consider vague — especially since a physician could be charged with a misdemeanor, be fined $10,000, and lose his medical license if he runs afoul of the law.
Sparks has told lawyers in the case he likely will decide the case based on written briefs provided by the parties instead of handling the dispute after a trial.
Lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights expect all of the written briefs to be filed by mid-December
Where are the jobs?
TX Repugs admit that defunding family centers is a war on contraception. Estimates are that there will be 20K unwanted TX births/year, and so 100s if not 1000s more abortions thanks to Repugs ing around in (poor) womens' vaginas.
Except, of course, for the unborn child that can only depend on government to keep its mother from murdering it.
Except, of course, that abortion would still be legal regardless of this law taking effect... So in that context it only would have amounted to the government mandating that women get an extra "Are you sure?" from their doctor.
It's legal.
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