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.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So it’s Biden’s fault that republicans are opposing anything the democrats are doing?

    You’re playing right into their game with that kind of thinking.

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      6 months ago

      It’s my fault for listening to what Biden said he could?

      I should have known he would blatantly lie to get elected and then immediately act like I’m an idiot for thinking what he said was true?

      But also…

      This time I should listen to Biden and it totally won’t happen again…

      Have you ever thought about why voter turnout goes down for incumbents?

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        6 months ago

        Not always.

        Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 and there’s no reason to believe Biden isn’t going to get more considering it’s an exact repeat.

        Biden has been fixing Trump’s dumpster fire and most reasonable people can see that.