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To wit: there’s a NY state law that makes it illegal for state officials to help shit-ass states like Texas follow through on legal threats like this within the context of the NY legal system. This is that law working as intended.

Or more succinctly: lick my taint, Ken Paxton, you fucking imbecilic psychopath.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

it's only a matter of time before the supreme court forces new york to comply; i hope that the doctor is prepared for this and finds another way to help with protecting themself.

when slavery was a thing, the shitty laws from shitty states to reclaim escaped slaves took primacy over laws from abolitionist states that would have protected them due to the supreme court and it took a war to overcome it.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

i hope that the doctor is prepared for this and finds another way to help with protecting themself.

The airport code is YYZ but driving up from Buffalo is cool too.

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

The US Supreme Court can't currently do what you say without a law change at the federal level.

Also, the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery (mostly) was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865 after the end of the US Civil War.

[-] redhat421@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Do you think the actual law matters to the Supreme Court? They act more like priests now.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You'd think a world-class corporate news organiztion like Associated Press would be able to shoehorn that into the title somehow. And yet.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

What are you talking about???

In journalism, headlines have always been used to try to entice people into reading the article. Not to give the entire story so that people won't need to read the article.

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[-] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

True story.

One night a woman came to our Catholic hospital ER in Central Texas because she was sexually assaulted.

The doctor prescribed Plan B because the victim didn't want to carry her rapist's baby.

Our hospital refused to dispense it. Poor woman had to wait two days to get it from CVS.

This is the reality

[-] J92@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?

"Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!"

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Seventh Day Adventists also have a shit ton of hospitals, the largest among the Protestant denominations iirc. You’ve probably heard of the Kellogg families impact on things like popularizing circumcision…

SDAs also have a substantial impact on the modern conspiracy theory landscape. The cult at Waco was an offshoot, Bill Cooper incorporated their propaganda in his weirdo narrative, if you live in the US you’ve probably got their book mailed about the “Sunday Law”….

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Advent owns most of the Hospitals and urgent care facilities in my area. Walking through the hospital, there are a constant religious references. One has a huge painting of a person dying in bed, their family and doctor gathered around, with a brightly painted and shining Jesus among them.

I've got a problem with a hospital who still considers divine intervention to be a viable medical strategy. What is this, the fucking Middle Ages?

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Organized medical care has a long history of being carried out by members of religious orders, with formal doctors and nurses being pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lots of hospitals were started by churches.

One of Texas's biggest medical providers is the Methodist Health System, with 12 full-fledged hospitals and over 100 clinics that started as a hospital in Houston founded by the Methodist church. For most people, it's just another hospital. The church doesn't get any of the money or anything.

Catholic hospitals, however, are a little more notorious for denying care based on religious principles - with abortion and birth control being the big one. They won't do abortions, offer contraceptives, or perform vasectomies, for instance.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not religious in the slightest, but in my experience, them Methodists seem pretty chill. Worked with one to make their website a while a back and their pastor was the most laid back, easy to work with dude, loved everyone, black, white, brown, straight, gay, trans, whatever. I miss that guy.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Methodists are also okay with women being pastors/priests/preachers. They're also pretty good at begging everyone for money.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The old pastor retired and just so happened to have been replaced by a woman! I don't know her personally like I did him, but every time I drive by, her messages out on the front board are always full of the same positivity and tongue and cheek shit I actually look forward to reading.

Unlike the other churches around that are like "you better pray or you're going to hell" and other threatening garbage.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sorry to ask, but if such a place didn’t want to dispense it, why would they have it? Am I not understanding something about pharmacies here?

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They should have it for the same reason they should have aspirin its called for.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fugitive Slave Acts all over again.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

"State's rights for me, federalism for you."

- every conservative state

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry shitstain, other parts of the country actually allow women to have rights.

Go fail at saving some kids from drowning and let the civilized people do their thing.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

“While I’m not entirely sure how things work in Texas, here in New York, a rejection means the matter is closed,” Bruck wrote in a letter to Texas officials.

I imagine Paxton blew a gasket over that. Lmao.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Poor boy has had a rough week, first his wife says she wants a divorce because of his adultery and now he finds out he's impotent in a different state.

Being a dog fearing christian is tough in this day and age, especially when you're actually a shitbag.

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Why are texan men so red and have squeaky voices?

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

He looks like a had a mild allergic reaction to seafood

[-] maniclucky@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Alcoholism? Not sure on the voices.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

alcoholics due have lowered T.

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Definitely part of it, never met a Texan man who didn't rage and throw a shitfit over the most minor of inconveniences.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

same goes for right wingers that gloriflies places like texas, and florida, they are equally reprehensible people. they were people on yt that were talking shit about california constantly, and they live LV(long story why they moved there) but thier business entirely depends on CALIFORNIA, since youtubing is based around LA anyways.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I used to do regular driving trips to Mexico from NC and I swear to god everything was always fine in every state I crossed. People were nice, no police problems, roads well maintained, no traffic and quick city bypasses.

But when I cross into Texas suddenly everything would turn to shit. The people were shitty, the roads were shitty, the radio stations were shitty, the police were shitty, Houston was a massive cluster fuck of detours and pot holes, the heat, the smells, literally EVERYTHING was just a bit shittier there than anywhere else. It was always a blessing to get across the Rio Grande and back into a civilized country.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Texas politicians are so shit they need to infect other states.

Get your shit together Texas.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

they have a flooding, and this is all they could think about.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ken Paxton out here looking like he had a chemical peel.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

alcohol and too much sun does that, also caucasian people dont do well under the sun or alcoholism, its the red flushing to the face.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

If reciprocal enforcement can allow Texas to force NY to follow their laws, then why can't NY force Texas to provide abortions?

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Or enforce NY gun laws in Texas. They'll care a lot more about that.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, we don't handle verdicts from rogue nations

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Chernobyl patient

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wouldn't the Texas requirement allow New York to challenge all the southern bullshit, like religion in schools, book bans, etc?

Do they want to open that can of worms?

Also, this makes as much sense as North Korea trying to get the US to abide by their laws.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is basically an extension of the law that compelled non-slave states to return escaped slaves to the owners in Southern states.

No state should be compelled to follow an immoral law in another state. Texas can't force NY to refuse to treat a patient, any more than NY can force Texas to provide an abortion.

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