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MysteriousTraveller's avatar

What is Paxton’s endgame? Just making this family’s life hell? He’s a warthog from hell.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

if the case is upheld it may 'erode' the power of his vaguely worded ban - he wants to scare people and make them suffer and she's standing up to that

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Maybe's avatar

Which bastard in Texas? You have to be a lot more specific than that.

Note that "bastard" and "son of a bitch" are insults mostly aimed at the Moms. I try to use something that leaves women out of it entirely, like "Corny-Faced," "Death's Head Upon a Mop-Stick," or "Addle Pate." These are from 18th-Century British Slang; it seems some men haven't changed much. I believe in evolution, of course, but I'm beginning to believe in de-evolution in some cases.

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SLR LuckyChix's avatar

Farging fargers

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fuflans's avatar

fuck me i haven't seen that maude in 20-ish years.

fuck me.

and fuck you every fucking republican from the reagan era on down. the 70's in fact were in fact so goddamned enlightened. (well, except for the pants...)

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WokeGrandma's avatar

Bell bottoms! In case it's escaped your attention they're back.

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V Carlson's avatar

I find it particularly enraging that that smug jackass is saying that the (female) judge doesn’t have the medical knowledge to OK the abortion (which also telegraphs what the whole medical exceptions “loophole” in the law), despite the judge relying on the advice of a medical doctor. But! It’s perfectly fine for a bunch of reactionary shitheads to make laws about medical conditions about which they are astoundingly ignorant.

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Maybe's avatar

They don't believe that women can have medical conditions because they don't believe that women are people. Perhaps, in Texas, women would have better luck if they went to veterinarians. Couldn't have much worse luck.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

IANAL, but doesn’t the fact that court has given them permission give the doctor and the hospital a defense against any charges this pig fucker could come up with?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

He's doing what all Republicans are doing, making threats he can't back up in the hopes it'll scare the recipients enough that they'll back down on their own, because, "You never know what those fuckers will do. They're crazy!"

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

"Women are not always in charge of who they have sex with, nor can they always negotiate the use condoms,"

That’s a hell of a polite way of saying rape is in epidemic proportions in some of these places.

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Sherry's avatar

So here's a thought. What if they actually force her to go through with the birth and she dies. Can thew family have those who denied this (in opposition to what the real live medical dr. said) but arrested for murder? Something to think about.

Get the fuck out of our medical decisions you pigs.

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Maybe's avatar

Indirectly killing a woman who dare to have sex is not considered murder in Texas.

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Lefty Wright's avatar

So the judge is not qualified to decide what is and what is not a risk of severe impairment of bodily function. But the doctor said she was, the judge was just agreeing. But let's get back to another point. If a judge is not qualified, is an attorney general. Or an insurance agent or rancher who happens to be in the legislature. I also seem to recall the letter from indicted felon Ken Paxton was trying to intimidate the hospital by saying they must decide which doctors they allow to use their facility. Sort of a variation of the old mob scenario where two enforcers come in demanding money for a neighborhood watch, saying "nice store you got here, be a shame if anything happens to it. By the way, Bill Jones down the street didn't contribute and his stock room burned yesterday." Paxton may as well have started with "Nice hospital you have here, be a shame if several administrators and doctors were arrested for violating abortion laws."

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jeleonard193's avatar

This is one of my favorite sentences of all time: If your stance on something requires that everyone pretend that the specific thing you’re mad about doesn’t happen and that people who disagree with you don’t even exist, I think you might want to have a discussion with yourself about the actual merits of your position.

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Darth Trad's avatar

A quarter of all infant deaths in Texas (latest figures) are caused by 'Birth Defects'. Maybe there is something in the water down there?

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Maybe's avatar

Or in the genetics.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Ever hear of cancer clusters?

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Given Texas’ lax environmental enforcement, that’s a real possibility.

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UnDrewsual's avatar

Just in awe of the absolute fucking GALL of this corrupt motherfucker and the jackasses that work for him saying "Judge Guerra Gamble is not medically qualified to make this determination and it should not be relied upon. A TRO is no substitute for medical judgment."

Care to tell us when you got YOUR medical degree, Kenny?

Of course, we all know the only reason you are still in office is because you called the state senators and threatened to take them down with you if they impeached you like they should have.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

His qualification is between his legs. That’s all that matters to him. He’s certainly not going to let some female judge make the decision.

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Mildred Downey Broxon's avatar

De minimis non curat lex.

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Darth Trad's avatar

It's not the doctors stopping it from happening. It's the courts. And he fucking knows that.

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UnDrewsual's avatar

That's my point. He's saying the judge isn't medically qualified. Implying that he, on the other hand, is.

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Liminal's avatar

I'm tired of saying this. If they were to force this woman to give birth to this damaged fetus and it were among the 5% who survive with "severe intellectual disabilities and health problems", is the government going to support the kids medical treatments and other care? No? Then how 'bout you STFU?

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Enbastet's avatar

I realize the point that you are making but we can never imply that if the forced birthers actually did support the children whose births they compel that forced birth could then be morally justified.

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Liminal's avatar

Good point.

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mvario's avatar

For f*ck sake, that indicted Texas asshat won't give it a rest.

"Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to prevent Kate Cox from getting an abortion, per reporters at the Texas Tribune and Austin American-Statesman."

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

It's time for George Soros to charter a private jet to fly this woman wherever she needs to go to get the medical care she requires as a human being.

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bluePNWcats's avatar

This whole thing makes me tired all the way to my bones. Who the fuck are these people and how did we not realize we were sharing our country with so many monsters until recently? I'm nearly beyond shock anymore, but I do have a deep and profound sadness at the state of our nation.

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WokeGrandma's avatar

Is 7 years (2016 election) "recently?"

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fuflans's avatar

so beautifully said.

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Wythers's avatar

Thanks for writing out exactly how I'm feeling these days.

If orange monster wins, I'm leaving the country. No idea where, or how, but I can't stay and survive as I am.

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Maybe's avatar

I live in California, so I often feel that I am already out of a country that is governed by corrupt minority rule.

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Wythers's avatar

erp. *lived*, not live. argh.

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Wythers's avatar

I loved loved loved my time in California! Lived in SB county for about 10 years, right on the coast.

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bluePNWcats's avatar

I'd love to be able to say the same thing with such surety, but my financial situation isn't such that would allow me to easily relocate myself and my two children. On most days, I have faith that we've got this, but I'd be lying if I said that I didn't have those moments of worrying, looking around at how many loud crazy voices for the other side there seem to be. I have faith in us but I am frightened.

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Wythers's avatar

Yeah, no idea how I can do it--I'm dirt-old and dirt-poor. It may just come down to selling everything just to buy some sort of used sailboat (maybe someone has a Farr they'd let go for cheap? :-D ) and staying in friendly ports.

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Ms.Moon's avatar

I wonder how many white women will have to die for white women to care about abortion rights. Black women were already dying at about 3x more than white women before the fall of Roe of pregnancy related complications I wonder how many more will have to die for white women to bridge the empathy gap. Black women will die more than white women will but that will be acceptable until more white women die and white women get angry and do something.

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mvario's avatar

I think that abortion rights winning everywhere they've been on the ballot shows they already do.

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BrianW's avatar

Let's be honest here; it's not a tragedy UNTIL it starts happening to white people.

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Maybe's avatar

In Texas, it's not a tragedy until it starts happening to white men.

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BrianW's avatar

As a male born and raised in Texas, I'd like to argue your point. However, . . . .

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Back in the 60's, there was a rash of heroin OD's in inner city neighborhoods. The media described it as a drug problem. Then, white suburban kids started dying. Suddenly, it was a drug epidemic.

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Sherry's avatar

Rich white Republican women and their sweet little Buffies and Chelseas.

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BrianW's avatar

"Why, MY child would NEVER do such a thing! It must have been forced on them or something."

Yeah, or something. 🙄

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