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.

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    10 months ago

    Read a comment yesterday that the original religion came from us hearing our own thoughts (simplified). So they’re not just creepy AF. They’re the ultimate Darwinistic embodiment of batshit

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      They’ve done studies on this using an FMRI. They ask people what God thinks about things and the part of the brain that lights up is the same as when they’re asked what they think themselves. A different area lights up when they’re asked about what other people think.