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.

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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    10 months ago

    I think Biden would be the instructor that pulls the shoot exactly as soon as he can, keeping you safe, but killing all of your fun and wasting your jump in the process. Trump would put you both in the ground and needs another instructor to save you both, after which Trump fires the other instructor and calls him a “very bad person” and has his family tormented for ages.

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      10 months ago

      For that to be true…

      I’d think Biden would have had plans to put in motion the day he assumed office and Dems had all the power.

      Instead once in office he said he needed to “research” things he’d promise that he’d do.

      And that “research” coincidentally took just long enough for Republicans to control the House, at which point Biden said he couldn’t do anything.

      Which sounds a lot like not pulling the chute until the last second, and getting interrupted and causing us to crash I to the ground.

      If hed pulled it asap, that would have been his first two years when Dems had all the political power.

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      10 months ago

      Nah, Biden is absolutely not the sort to pull it asap in this analogy. Pulling the chord is implementing effective regulation and actually slowing the descent.

      What part of doing literally nothing on several major fronts is, “pulling it asap”?

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        10 months ago

        doing literally nothing

        In case, like me, you weren’t sure if this person was arguing in good faith.