A Brief Update

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Earlier today I wrote about Kate Cox and her struggle to obtain an abortion despite the fact that the fetus she carries is not viable and her very life is in danger.  I wrote that late last night, and when I woke this morning, it was to this headline in the New York Times …

Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Court-Approved Abortion  

The court, responding to an appeal from Attorney General Ken Paxton, put on hold a lower court order allowing an abortion for a woman whose fetus has a fatal condition.

Texas Attorney General Paxton has threatened Ms. Cox’s doctor, all three hospitals where she practices, and even Ms. Cox’s husband with felony charges if they assist her in any way.  Meanwhile, her life is in danger, the fetus will never be a child, while Mr. Paxton and the Texas Supreme Court play games with her life!

This, my friends, is NOT about the “right to life” … it is about teaching women a ‘lesson’ … about male dominance and male supremacy.  There is no viable life growing within Ms. Cox’s body, only an anomaly that medical experts agree will never survive beyond the first few hours after birth, if that.  Ms. Cox, however, is alive today and her ‘right to life’ is being jeopardized further every day that the State of Texas forces her to bow to the will of the AG and the Courts.

I will not say what I wish on Mr. Paxton and the members of the Texas Supreme Court, but I would like to remind everyone that this horror would not be happening at all were it not for five U.S. Supreme Court Justices:

  • Clarence Thomas
  • Samuel Alito
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Neil Gorsuch
  • Amy Barrett

These five have caused Ms. Cox’s agony as well as thousands of other women’s by overturning Roe v Wade and robbing women of the right to make their own healthcare decisions.  Justice?  I think not.  More like an attempt to return this nation to the 1800s, to send women into slavery.  I’ve long said that this is still a male-dominated nation … anybody care to argue that point?

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  3. I would protest that America is not a male-dominated nation –yet! Certainly the Republicans are trying to make it so, and have made it so in many state legislatures, but as of right now most men do support women’s right to control their own sexual health. In my mind, Biden failed America when he held majorities in the House and in the Senate. He should have passed a federal law maintaining women’s reproductive rights, but he did nothing. Unfortunately that point is now moot. But he csn still take a page out of the former sick president’s book and write an executive order banning states from removing women ‘s rights retroactive to the day before the Supreme Court took those rights away. If he had any guts at all that is that he would do tomorrow!
    OR are there forces in the Democratic Party that want to keep women pregnsnt, barefoot, and in the kitchen! Sometimes I wonder?

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    • Unfortunately, it’s not that simple … no, Biden cannot ‘ban states from removing women’s rights’. Only the Supreme Court could do that, as they did with Roe v Wade … but unfortunately we now have 5 assholes on the Court who, even though one of the five is a woman (a pseudo woman in my book), do not respect women. Just as, even though one of the 5 assholes is Black, they do not respect civil rights. No, the process has to be done through democratic means, otherwise how can we possibly claim to be protecting democracy?

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  7. Unless her legal and medical teams are incompetent, she is not pregnant. If I was on either team the couple did the virtual hearing from the clinic OR. The tide has turned no flailing the waves will stop it.

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          • Well maybe in Texas because that’s where this Roe crap started. If her lawyers hadn’t coordinated with her doctors to enable her to jump through the window momentarily open for the two days between court orders they are guilty of malpractice. It takes about an hour and no hospital needed unless complications. HIPAA protects that information. She was free to get all necessary care from the moment the judge said she could until the other judges said she couldn’t. If she didn’t she is surrounded by incompetents.

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            • Perhaps earlier in her pregnancy, that might have been the case, but she was (or is?) 25 weeks along and has been having complications, so a hospital might have been needed. I hope you’re right, though, and that they did take advantage of that 2-day window!

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  8. It’s religious nuttery for sure, but I posted this over at Nan’s blog and I think has merit.

    It may not be immediately obvious how the fight over abortion rights is tied to the “great replacement” theory — the debunked conspiracy theory promoted by some Republican politicians who claim that Democrats support more immigration to “replace” white American voters. But the explanation for, say, an alleged gaffe that overturning the constitutional right to an abortion is a “historic victory of white life” or a concern that not enough white babies are being born in the U.S. can be found in the history of the anti-abortion movement.

    The movement to end legal abortion has a long, racist history, and like the great replacement theory, it has roots in a similar fear that white people are going to be outnumbered by people believed to hold a lower standing in society. Those anxieties used to be centered primarily around various groups of European immigrants and newly emancipated slaves, but now they’re focused on non-white Americans who, as a group, are on track to numerically outpace non-Hispanic white Americans by 2045, according to U.S. Census projections.

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    • No no … the woman judge was the one who said she CAN have the abortion, but it was the male Attorney General that threw a hissy fit and convinced the male-dominated Texas Supreme Court to halt the judge’s ruling … temporarily, they say. Meanwhile … that poor woman!

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      • Sorry Jill I often jump get it wrong, old age I recon. With her human rights rejected and her precious life in jeopardy ruled by ugly fanatical religious woman haters would be an understatement. If she dies all these pompous pricks should be charged with murder, locked up and the key thrown away.

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        • I fully understand about the old age messing with our minds! Some days I have to think to remember my own name! Yes, if she dies they should all be charged with murder, especially Ken Paxton! But we all know it won’t happen … she is, after all, “only” a woman. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ….

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        • I knew it must be you. It happens to me all the time that although I AM logged in, I have to either log in again, share my password, or it just posts my comment as anonymous anyway. WordPress keeps breaking more things than they are improving upon!

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            • I find that if I cannot ‘like’ a comment, I need to look for the “follow” button on the right side, click on the three dots, and ‘log in’. Even though you ARE logged in, you sometimes have to do it again. Sigh. I tried to contact tech support, aka the “Happiness Engineers”, a few days ago and got a roundabout and unhelpful AI-generated response. Apparently the Happiness Engineers are all now robots!

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  10. Jill, Margaret Atwood is looking more prophetic these days. Women are being treated as second class citizens more and more by men in power with an evangelical bent. If they are so concerned with unwanted pregnancy, maybe the men should do something about it and wear a condom or get a vasectomy. Keith

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    • Oh yes … there’s a reason sales of “The Handmaid’s Tale” increased when Roe v Wade was overturned! The only positive I can pull from this is that it may well hurt Republicans next year, for I think we women have proven by our votes in the 2022 mid-terms that we are not willing to return to yesteryear.

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      • Jill, women and like-minded men need to vote. The same folks doing this are telling us global warming is not a problem, guns should be more available, reading lists must be ok’d, all rights are not equal, seditious actions are just tourism, and lying is OK if you win. Keith

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  11. Jill, as I wrote over on Nan’s blog about this UNBELIEVABLE ongoing event(s), I’ll just copy/paste what I wrote over there, please:

    “This is infuriating!!! I am almost DAILY incensed with my home state and religious-based Republican government idiots and their judges!!! 🤬 I seriously think our hyper-arrogant officials CRAVE to keep themselves in national and world news, for all the wrong reasons!!! I am beside myself and so ashamed to be called a Texan right now. 😡

    Riddle me this please… HOW is this not homicide, by A.G. Ken Paxton (himself horribly corrupt!) and the Texas Supreme Court, if this poor lady/mother (likely?) dies with this pregnancy or birth!!!? HOW!? If it isn’t government homicide then isn’t it “reckless endangerment” or “manslaughter”?”

    This sh*t just defies all levels of reasoning, logic, and high-tech modern medicine and healthcare! Jill, I so loathe living in this religious nut-case state. 😔

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    • It is, indeed, homicide if Ms. Cox dies. AG Paxton is, himself, an indicted criminal who has somehow managed to not yet go to trial, and an impeached AG, as well, and yet … he has this much power over people’s lives. It isn’t only your state, though yours is certainly one of the worst for civil rights, women’s rights, etc. This whole mess … it isn’t even about that fetus that will never be a child … it is about showing women that they are not equal to men in this society, that they do not have the same rights as men. THAT is the goal in Texas and every other state that is infringing upon a woman’s right to make her own damn healthcare decisions!

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