When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the abortion debate. In reality, it simply gave the courts a macabre new task: deciding how far states can push a patient toward death before allowing her to undergo an emergency abortion.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit offered its own answer, declaring that Texas may prohibit hospitals from providing “stabilizing treatment” to pregnant patients by performing an abortion—withholding the procedure until their condition deteriorates to the point of grievous injury or near-certain death.
The ruling proves what we already know: Roe’s demise has transformed the judiciary into a kind of death panel that holds the power to elevate the potential life of a fetus over the actual life of a patient.
Reminder that, in Ohio, Republicans pushed a bill that would have required doctors to reimplant ectopic pregnancies in the uterus. A medical technique that doesn’t exist. So doctors who didn’t do this non-existent technique would be “guilty of murder” and doctors who tried it and failed (because it’s not a thing we can do) would also be guilty. And either way, the woman would likely die.
Well, that’s the most insane thing I’ve ever seen in politics, bravo
Jeezus yeah it is. I guess Ohio became a meme for a reason, huh
Between that and Gym Jordan they’re clearly vying for most north Florida of the states.