Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Court-Approved Abortion

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Source: New York Times

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By J. David Goodman
Reporting from Houston.

Dec. 8, 2023
Updated 11:14 p.m. ET

The Texas Supreme Court late Friday temporarily halted a lower court order allowing a Dallas woman to obtain an abortion in spite of the state’s strict bans, after she learned her fetus has a fatal condition.

The state court’s ruling was in response to an appeal from Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, who opposed the woman’s abortion.

The Supreme Court said that, “without regard to the merits” of the arguments on either side, it had issued an administrative stay in the case, to give itself more time to issue a final ruling.

The stay meant that, for the moment, the order from a judge in Travis County district court permitting the abortion was on hold. That order allowed the woman, Kate Cox, to obtain an abortion and protected her doctor from civil or criminal liability under Texas’s overlapping abortion bans.



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For God's sake....

[lapfog_1]

1. god, if there is one, has nothing to do with this

and, apparently, by not striking dead ken Paxton, doesn't want to take part.

[MOMFUDSKI]

26. If Paxton is still breathing then there is

no god

[Deuxcents]

2. This is beyond cruel and should not even be an issue

It’s the 21st century, FGS. If there is an underground network, I want to believe she has safely been taken to where she has care, and she and her family can rest out of the spotlight of the media and the threats from politicians. She and her family’s lives are forever changed even tho they never thought it was gonna be like this. I wish safe travels and good care for all of them and no harm to their providers in whatever capacity they choose to help. We cannot and will not live like this and I’ll bet it’s gonna be a hard fight for our rights but we’re gonna fight for them.

[Scottie Mom]

3. Insanity! Abuse! Cruelty!

This is the worse Abuse of a Woman I have ever witnessed.

🤬🤬🤬

[lastlib]

4. To borrow from Bachman Turner Overdrive....

"You Ain;'t Seen Nothin' Yet." There is no bottom to their cruelty and hatred of women, and they will surpass this--if nothing else, then by sheer numbers.

[Scottie Mom]

7. You hit this exactly!

Thank you for the reply.

I keep thinking they’ve hit the very lowest, ugliest they can go. They keep surprising me by their ability to outdo themselves.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Check out the Dark Age laws being proposed in

Missouri.

[Chi67]

5. This

Needs to be a top concern in the 2024 election. It has to be the number 1 issue. And it really is. If the right to reproductive care goes down so does everything else. VOTE people! Lives depend on it.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

6. Who the fuck

does Paxton think he is?? "God"??

This woman is suffering. She could die. I am so flipping sick and pissed off right now! What is the GD point of this? What GD business is it of this psycho asshole?

[Scottie Mom]

8. I cannot adequately express my rage over this. EOM

[Chi67]

9. Yep

I am pissed off too! This should NEVER happen in the USA! Vote these fascists out! No state is gerrymandered to the point they can't get out the vote. Ohio showed that recently. VOTE!

[PortTack]

17. Yes the MoFo thinks he's god

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Who didn't see this coming?

I'm fucking sick of the damned patriarchy.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Are they sentencing this woman to death?! There is no "baby" to save. Good God!!!

[Rebl2]

31. If it

doesn’t kill her, it may make it impossible for her to have any more children.

[SKKY]

12. Republicans like to say they foster a culture of life....

...and by life, they mean pain and needless suffering whose only purpose is to remove any resemblance of autonomy a woman may have over her body. Just sickening.

[Demobrat]

13. She needs a gofundme

so we can all chip in to get her someplace where she can get the care she needs.

[Deuxcents]

14. I posted on another thread that I hope some kind of

Underground has her in a safe place for her and her family and her professional providers. I gotta believe there is a system like that..especially now as we know how a women will be treated after having to be humiliated by asking permission to live. If my jaw gets any tighter, I may crush all my teeth..I’m so very pissed. 😡

[aeromanKC]

15. Violation of her 8th amendment rights.

[rubbersole]

16. Terry Schivo 2.0 on steroids.

Politicians must/will pay for this bullshit.

[ecdab]

18. Back when OBAMACARE was being debated, the GOP screamed about Death Panels, well it looks like Death Panels are here

nt

[MayReasonRule]

19. For God's Sake IS The Goddamn Problem

[Mawspam2]

20. Joe Biden needs to get on Air Force One, ...

...go to Texass, pick up this poor woman and deliver her to a state where she can get treatment.

That nationalizes the story and lets everyone know just how cruel EVERY fucking Reptile is and that Dems are for women's rights and medical sense. It will get every top headline and push abortion above "Bidenomics".

[bullimiami]

29. That is a brilliant idea.

[Bayard]

35. If DeSantis can bus migrants,

Then Sir Joe can rescue damsels in distress.

[ecdab]

21. Unbelievable. This all so some willfully narrow minded folks can feel like they are moral beings.

Humans! Lazy, stupid and greedy.

Folks that think their morality is based on what they don't do.

Folks that think they can achieve "eternal life' with their "heavenly father" by preventing other people from getting health care. How screwed up is that - and there is an entire propaganda machine dedicated to selling that nonsense.

The GOP picked their antiabortion platform because it doesn't cost anything to oppose abortion rights. If they wanted to feed kids, that would cost something, if they wanted to make adoption easier, that would cost something. a bunch of political con artists that have teamed up with a bunch of religious con artists to gain money and power.

It's so sad watching the apathy, willful idiocy, and corruption of moral decency that has infested this world.

[sinkingfeeling]

22. Women rise up! No woman who has ever experienced

a pregnancy should ever vote for a Republican again.
Texas women should recall Paxton from office. Child bearing aged women should flee the state.

[GiqueCee]

24. Congratulations to Texas!

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It will be VERY difficult for any other state to challenge their exalted status as ANUS OF THE UNIVERSE!

Paxton's obscene depravity has been plain for all to see for a long time now. Is it something in the water? 'Cause he sure as hell ain't alone blowing bubbles in that bottomless cesspool of unspeakable evil. Malevolent mendacity is so ingrained in the Lone Star state's self-image that it actually has a distinctive and stomach-churning odor.

Oh, I know there are truly good people in Texas, but they're both awfully quiet. OH! I hear indignant howls of protest over that observation. Perhaps if those impotent objections were converted to action, things would change for the better. If Paxton, Abbott, Patrick, and their malignant minions were removed from power by the righteous fury of a populace fed up to the teeth with the Machiavellian machinations of utterly monstrous men that screech about freedom, even as they impose the most restrictive, invasive, and draconian laws in the country in their unconscionable quest for dominion over the lives of others, then I might be inclined to revise my low opinion of the place.

Of course they target women first! Because there is nothing that their base of weak and resentful white men fears more than pissed off WOMEN. And that's how they condition the electorate to accept the unacceptable. Exercise ruthless control over that which they fear most, and they'll follow you to their own slaughter like good little piggies.

Voltaire said it best: Anyone who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

And there can be no doubt in the minds of decent people that what the Texas Supreme Court just did is, without a doubt, an atrocity that will result in truly horrific consequences, not only for Kate Cox, but for ALL the women of Texas.

But that's only the beginning. You're next.

End of rant. For now.

[bluestarone]

25. Way past time for shuttle bus service free of charge, thru Billionaire donations, or Donations from PRO ABORTION people.

Here's hoping someone can get this started!

[mucifer]

28. they are threatening anyone who helps the women with lots of jail time

[Timeflyer]

36. I'm visualizing a 'Spartacus' type mobile convoy of 10,000 women, at least 2 per vehicle, driving thru TX

with visible 'abortion express' signs, claiming to be transporting patients to free states for abortions, getting stopped and jailed, clogging the legal system to protest the injustice. Damn, that our daughters are being treated like this woman is crazy!

[bluestarone]

37. Yea claiming to be, BUT are they sure?

Maybe they could be sued for false arrest, on top of everything else. Make it so they DO NOT know for sure. (I like it)

[Hotler]

27. Just a bunch of dicks. nt

[bluestarone]

30. The worst part is

THIS court will sit on it for fucking months probably! Could this be appealed on fast track to SC? (Way past time to put some MORE HEAT on THIS SC!)

[Paladin]

32. We're not nearly angry enough about this.

This is a medical matter, between a woman in severe distress and her caregivers. The courts and that corrupt piece of shit Paxton need to get out of the way, and damn soon. What an unspeakably vile situation.

[bluestarone]

33. These bastards ask a court to intervene, and they get almost IMMEDIATE FN response,BUT

A normal citizen has to wait weeks, months or FN YEARS! Bastards everyone of them.

[republianmushroom]

34. And some people want a republican run country.