Texas towns make it illegal to use roads to travel out of state for an abortion.

Since you apparently believe that an embryo/fetus is a person separate and apart from its mother from the moment of conception should pregnant women who drink, smoke or engage is risky behavior be prosecuted for endangering the lives of their "children". Although there have been some cases in which aggressive prosecutors have charged pregnant women who have used illegal drugs during their pregnancy with child endangerment should that also apply to women who engage in otherwise legal behavior who could endanger the well being of the fetus that they are carrying?

 

Of course.

 

Agree 100%, just passing on the pre-drafted spin

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/11/kate-cox-texas-abortion/

I mean how Handmaids Tale can we get here. The fetus will die, her health is in danger and Ken Paxton takes it upon himself to be the arbiter of what is right.

Separately, Paxton in a letter on Thursday threatened to take legal action if Cox had the procedure in the state, warning doctors and hospitals that anyone involved in performing an abortion for Cox would face “civil and criminal liability” that could include “first-degree felony prosecutions.” He contended that Cox’s case did not meet “all of the elements necessary to fall within an exception to Texas’ abortion laws” and that the judge was “not medically qualified to make this determination.”


Cox had been to the emergency room at least three times during the course of her pregnancy, according to the initial complaint, experiencing “severe cramping, diarrhea, and leaking unidentifiable fluid.” Cox has had two prior Caesarean sections and would have probably needed a third if she carried this pregnancy to term, according to the complaint — a procedure that doctors said could have affected her ability to have more children in the future.


The state’s highest court found that the situation itself wasn’t sufficient grounds for allowing an exception.

 

I guess in Texas a pregnant woman is the property of the state. It’s sickening.

I notice that there are some folks conspicuously absent in this thread.

 

Not many of these things / issues make me viscerally angry. This does. I have nothing but contempt for Paxson and his ilk. (I live in TX).

It is why it is impossible to have a reasonable compromise, with ample exceptions and protections. These people will take it as far as they can.

 

They love government mandated pregnancies.

 

This says it all.

 

People like Paxton aren’t men. They’re something else..

 

So women are just property. Thanks gop, good to know. Vote accordingly.

 

I know he’s a maga hero but recommend checking out just how unscrupulous Ken Paxton’s has been in his various roles of leadership. I was going to post links but there is so much I didn’t know where to start.

 

They bark about limited government and liberty as they take rights away. They don't believe in freedom, they only believe in power.

 

This specific situation deserves its own thread, IMO. Absolutely abhorrent.

 

There is no way any woman or man who loves women can vote for any republican.

The brutal possible outcomes are just not worth the risk.

 

Faux compassion and feigned outrage with a very naughty fetus at the center.

 

Your apparent position being that with the possible exception of a c-section there should be no medical intervention which could shorten a pregnancy and that the mother should be forced to give birth in every case including that in which the fetus dies in utero, the fetus has a condition that will result in its death shortly after birth and/or continued pregnancy threatens the health or even the life of the mother.

 

Notice the wide chasm between the party that describes abortion as killing babies and the party that describes prohibitions against such as “forced birth.”

 

Don't kid yourselves, they want to make this nationwide.

 

Well, d’uh. Abortion is a black mark on America.

 

Is the Texas law allowing private lawsuits still in effect, and will that be used here to go after whatever hospital or doctor this lady has gone to see? Can/will she also be sued?