Told yall: Supreme Court overturns Texas lower court abortion ban

[valet]

Tried to tell people on here that the Republicans are not going overturn Roe Vs. Wade with these new judges. Not surprised at all. Republican appointed judges legalize Roe v Wade and that party is not going to change it. Black baby genocide will continue.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to advocates of abortion rights, wiping lower court rulings off the books that had upheld a Texas order banning nearly all abortions in the state during the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Greg Abbot ordered a halt to nonessential medical procedures in late March of last year to conserve hospital resources and personal protective equipment. Attorney General Ken Paxton then said the order applied to "any type of abortions," including medical abortions that do not involve surgery.


A federal judge in Texas declared the order too broad and lifted the ban. But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans put it back in place. In public health emergencies, the appeals court said, a state can restrict constitutional rights including, "one's right to peaceably assemble, to publicly worship, to travel, and even to leave one's home. The right to abortion is no exception."


Planned Parenthood also sought to get permission for medication abortions, which do not consume protective equipment, and surgical abortions for women who are nearing 22 weeks of pregnancy, after which most abortions in Texas are illegal. But the appeals court said no to that, too.

The governor issued a new order a short time later that allowed abortions in Texas to resume, but the state asked the Supreme Court to keep the appeals court rulings on the books. Those decisions "have been cited hundreds of times in courts across the country" in legal disputes over Covid-19 restrictions, lawyers for the state told the court.

But Planned Parenthood said the governor's change in the rule ended the opportunity to pursue the issue in court. Unless the appeals court decisions were also vacated, leaving them on the books "may tie petitioners' hands in future cases," the group said.[/quote]

 

[Luke Cage]

I'm pro choice. If you want black baby genocide to stop, speak to the people doing it, convince them, don't legislate their bodies like you own them.
Even the bible says God the all powerful gave us free will as opposed to compelling us to be without sin.

 

[FaTaL]

i dont get it

 

[valet]

I'm pro choice. If you want black baby genocide to stop, speak to the people doing it, convince them, don't legislate their bodies like you own them.
Even the bible says God the all powerful gave us free will as opposed to compelling us to be without sin.

Talking to them is apart of it sure. Making it illegal for a docror to kill babies is apart of it as well.

 

[Luke Cage]

Talking to them is apart of it sure. Making it illegal for a docror to kill babies is apart of it as well.

No it's not, for the reason i just said as a best case scenario.

worst case scenario its not for the reason that people will be force to find less safe illegal methods to do it. Then we will not only have baby genocide but baby torture, and potential momma genocide.

 

[bnew]

Texas Republicans Propose Horrific Punishment for Abortion Patients

The Lone Star State GOP wants to make abortion punishable by death.

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Texas Republicans Propose Horrific Punishment for Abortion Patients​

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Thu, May 30, 2024 at 12:06 PM EDT·2 min read

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Having some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws isn’t enough for the Texas GOP. Instead, Republicans in the Lone Star State are actually considering the death penalty as punishment for people who undergo the medical procedure.

A new platform proposed at the state’s GOP convention on Saturday included calls for legislation that would transform the fetal personhood ideology into law, which would effectively categorize any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.

The 50-page document claims that “abortion is not healthcare, it is homicide” and calls for lawmakers to extend “equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization.”

Not everyone in attendance was in support of the endeavor, however. Harris County Precinct 178 Chair Gilda Bayegan volunteered to speak at the event, calling on her party to drop its anti-abortion platforms on the basis that the state’s draconian restrictions to the medical procedure were alienating its base.

“I’m up here begging you not to make it one of our priorities,” Bayegan said.

Her party clearly did not listen. The GOP wish list is a revealing glimpse into which direction they are headed, but it wasn’t the first clue. In January, Hood County Republican Party officials were spotted attending an Abolish Abortion Texas function in which the death penalty was discussed as a possible repercussion for women and minors who seek out not just abortion but also in vitro fertilization treatments.

“There’s no difference in the value of born people and preborn people,” Paul Brown, the group’s director, said in leaked video footage, revealing the philosophy behind the extreme measures. “In short, abortion is murder. And that’s starting at the moment of fertilization even prior to implantation. So that Plan B pill, or what’s known as the morning-after pill, which is used to terminate or kill a baby prior to implantation, that is an abortion.”

(Plan B does not “kill” an embryo, as Brown claims. Instead, it prevents fertilization from occurring in the first place.)

Texas isn’t the only state to consider classifying the lifesaving medical procedure as homicide or even sentencing people to death for seeking the treatment. Republican lawmakers in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina introduced similar legislation last year. All of those bills were defeated, with even some state Republicans deeming them too extreme.