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Led Tassle's avatar

I thought Cuban refugees were always given head-of-the-line status on account of OMGCastro. Apparently now, though, we are just a fellow Soviet satellite nation and only white South Africans and $5 mill "gold card" immigrants get to jump the line.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Paxton, you POS, you are standing on a pile of dead women's bodies while declaring how fucking pro-life you are. Hypocrite doesn't begin to describe it.

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Don Davis's avatar

The AG has a mean streak.

I don’t like what I see and hear from him.

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psychobroad's avatar

My feeling about Paxton and others is they are terrified by women who are smarter than them, and since that's almost everyone, they're freaking out.

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Manic Pixel Dream Girl's avatar

“In Texas, life is sacred.” —-“In Texas, every sperm is sacred.” FTFY. Once you’re out of the womb, you’re on your own kid. The hypocrisy, it burns.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

unless you happen to be a 5 year old and a 7 year old in the Rio Grande swept away because of the razor wire

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Kathryn Clancy's avatar

In "red" states, they do not respect the rights of women. They do not consider the life of the woman to be important. Oh yeah, this is a case of selective enforcement.

And yet, they choose to let women die of sepsis. It is absolutely barbaric! They should be charging the governor and the AG with their murders!

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RRJKR's avatar

Of not, those arrested had names of Spanish origin. Targeted enforcement?

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Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

Here it comes.

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Erisian's avatar

"Exactly zero patients were harmed in the commission of these “crimes,” whereas at least three women have died as a direct result of the state’s abortion ban."

* In the great state of Texas, helping a woman exercise body autonomy is a crime, while the government murdered (there's no other word for it) three women denied medical treatment post-miscarriage is perfectly acceptable under Texas' draconian laws.

* The crimes were, as far as I can tell, the deliberate execution of the preborn -- which is in direct violation of Texas' G-d's laws. We can't have people arbitrarily decide which of G-dess' laws they'll obey and which ones are null, void, and invalid. I mean, who do these people think they are, the Fulvous Fuckwad, or one of his trained attack Dachshunds, rabid lapdogs, or declawed puddy-tats? These are the *only* people in the US who get to pick and choose what laws they will follow and which ones are too confining for Mooseballs Mussolini to carry out his rape of the country.

* The three deaths were women of color, so no big whoop. Amirite?

* These fine folk who are looking out for the welfare of the preborn know that abortion = homicide. As one of my favorite comedians, Chris Rush, noted, the legislators know this from interviews with several fetuses, all of whom said the same thing: "please don't kill me, please."

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“In Texas, life is sacred. I will always do everything in my power to protect the unborn, defend our state’s pro-life laws, and work to ensure that unlicensed individuals endangering the lives of women by performing illegal abortions are fully prosecuted[]”

Paxton is bloviating and lying like the pro he is:

* “In Texas, life is sacred." Not all life, just that of the preborn and the Melanin-deficient. Once the baby is born, if mother or infant require emergency medical attention they can go fuck themselves (unless they are of the demographic I mention in the previous sentence).

* Paxton will do everything in his power to make life as hard as possible for those stupid enough to be poor and of color who got pregnant -- likely out of a desire to increase the amount of their welfare checks.

* He'll also "work to ensure that" that licensed medical professionals aren't endangering lives by giving emergency treatment to a woman going through the agony of a miscarriage (both physical and mental). The doctors must be punished for violating the state's anti-abortion laws.

* Who you gonna believe: someone like Paxton, with a JD and a desire to do what is right (whether or not it is right, just as long as he considers it right), or some rando doctor who spent at least ten years learning:

> "Becoming a doctor requires long hours of study and practical training in a medical environment, and earning the education for this career can take a significant amount of time to complete. In general, it can take at least 10 years to become a fully licensed and practicing physician, but with a specialty, this length of time can increase." https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-many-years-does-it-take-to-become-a-doctor

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"There’s something so deeply cruel in Paxton’s trying to flip the script and paint himself as some great protector of women"

Paxton is only following in the footsteps of his false god, the Mango Malignancy, whose intense misogyny and actions flies in the face of his claiming to be protecting American womanhood. For further clarification, please talk to E Jean Carroll, any of the contestants in his Miss America Pageants, or any of the teens taking part in Miss Teen America Pageants (only a dyed in the wool male perv would think of entering the dressing rooms of the contestants -- adult or teen; or any other women's dressing rooms).

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Peter Dellos's avatar

Howdy Arabia strikes again.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Good one!

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Eva Porter's avatar

They’re all such liars

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Lynn Grant's avatar

I doubt this midwife is guilty of anything. Hopefully, she can flee Texas.

BUT, as the US learned in the 1950s and 1960s, back ally abortions will continue, or women will buy a set of knitting needles from Walmart and do it themselves.

Women will die from illegal abortions, that's why abortion was legalized to begin with, the death toll skyrocketed in the 60s.

Republicans are Hell-bent on forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. They will learn the hard way when the US birthrate drops to zero.

US Conservative Capitalistic culture is sick, it doesn't deserve to be passed to a new generation.

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Stephen St John's avatar

“In Texas, life is sacred." And that's why we let any damn fool carry a gun.

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Richard S's avatar

One can have some perverse pleasure by imagining these cretins suffering in Dante's vision of Hell. I note as an aside that Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have "updated" The Inferno in a pair of novels - "Inferno" and "Escape From Hell" - to include more contemporary sins (as well as update the theology). The most obvious examples are that a large portion of the Forest of Suicides has become an industrial wasteland patrolled by roving black muscle cars instead of dogs....and what's left of the Forest has suicide bombers instead of the dogs.

I'm picturing Paxton in his chair, stuck in the mud in the shallows of Phlegethon, with waves coming up to mid-calf height, begging people for help. He *could* get out on his own, but that would mean crawling through the boiling hot muck.....

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Randy's avatar

I'm willing to bet that the most prolific abortion providers in Texas still have a much better record of honoring and protecting life than Ken Paxton.

Once you're born in Texas, you're dead to Republicans.

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