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For those wondering, the State’s Supreme Court is hardlining the Legislative language here.
While I don’t know medicine enough to give real percentages, the lower Judge ruled the abortion could continue because there was like a 70% or something chance of dying and the letter of the Texas law requires something along the lines of a 95% chance of death.
Again I don’t think one can attribute hard numbers, but the Supreme Court is saying that the laws indicate that only when death is pretty much assured can an abortion happen, which is a completely insane stance. And in this case death was only mostly going to happen, not absolutely going to happen.
Roughly speaking, the Texas Supreme Court basically said that the person needs to be closer to death than the defendant in this case. How much closer? The Court isn’t super clear, but clearly much more closer to death than this person was.
Because clearly taking pain and suffering into account is just beside the point at this point for Texas.
No, the suffering is the point. The entire "pro-life" "stance" is nothing more than an excuse to indulge in oppression.
Precisely correct. This married woman - who wants more children and is a clear case for an exception - couldn't be allowed an exception, because the whores need to be made to suffer for their poor choices.
We can't be muddying the waters with all this "nuance." The whores are going to pay in the state of Texas, and that will be that.
Apparently abortion is so much murder that even if they're going to die within minutes of being born, it's still murder.
It's so much murder that the only reasonable solution is to just let them both die, dont ya know?
Exactly. If the white married mother of 2 (who will probably continue voting Republican) doesn't get an exemption, that means they plan on giving it to nobody.
Thanks for the simple to understand summary.
This isn't their choice in the first place, it's the family's choice.