Imo the baby isn’t really important here. It’s the fact that she wasn’t allowed to leave after experiencing abnormal pain while pregnant! We should be taking so much better care of pregnant people.
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Maybe I’m missing something like sarcasm or something but, we do. Maybe you are trying to make this a talking experience so we all could learn but I can’t tell.
Weird. You don’t think they would be suggesting that the US has the highest rate among countries of similar wealth? (/s)
Hypocrisy is pretty on brand for Republicans.
More proof that the anti-abortion movement is about controlling women, not about being “pro-life”.
I wish I could say I’m surprised.
To the right, the “rights of a fetus” are only relevant when its convenient to their agenda. Otherwise, they don’t exist. They’ll shamelessly use whatever arguments are in their arsenal to achieve their version of reality. Consistency and hypocrisy be damned.
Remarkably consistent.
“We control your body, you don’t. Need an abortion? Too bad. Need to see a doctor? Too bad. Pregnant with abnormal pain? Too bad. Need childcare? Too bad.”
GOP is so remarkably despicable
Where’s the pro-life crowd at?
Not on the internet with all them filthy libs.
they’re not with the filthy liberal Jesus and his weak-ass “turn the other cheek” either.
We’re jumping back in the big Old Testament pile bois! They terk er fascism!!! Terturkerterfs!!!
As a Jew, I can attest that they don’t like the Old Treatment either. Too much “don’t eat bacon” and “don’t worship a golden calf.” Not enough “worship the rich, especially those who art named Trump.”
Now the Revised (with gold sharpie) Old Testament… that they’ll follow.
The throughline here is that Texas will take whatever position most hurts the powerless.
There’s a slightly different line: whatever position hurts women.
why the hell is everyone so focused on the fetus’ rights when it was the mother’s rights that were denied?
Or is everyone assuming the mother just didn’t have any rights?
As far as I can tell it’s more about the state wanting to have it both ways. They want to be a champion of the unborn while denying the fetus was a person because of it happening before Dobbs.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The argument from the Texas attorney general’s office appears to be in tension with positions it has previously taken in defending abortion restrictions, contending all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court that “unborn children” should be recognized as people with legal rights.
“Just because several statutes define an individual to include an unborn child does not mean that the Fourteenth Amendment does the same,” they wrote in legal filing that noted that the guard lost her baby before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion established under its landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
That claim came in response to a federal lawsuit brought last year by Salia Issa, who alleges that hospital staff told her they could have saved her baby had she arrived sooner.
While working at the prison, Issa began feeling pains “similar to a contraction” but when she asked to be relived from her post to go to the hospital her supervisors refused and accused her of lying, according to the complaint she filed along with her husband.
Issa, whose suit was first reported by The Texas Tribune, is seeking monetary damages to cover her medical bills, pain and suffering, and other things, including the funeral expenses of the unborn child.
Laura Hermer, a professor at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, described Texas’ legal posture as “seeking to have their cake and eat it too.”
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Sounds like she was more a prisoner than the actual prisoners. Denied access to health care seems so wrong, and to be told she was lying on top of it all.
I wish I was more surprised pikachu face.
Unfortunately this seems pretty on brand, and very much celebrated collectively by the people of Texas.
No, no, no, see the fetus only has rights when it’s convenient for those in charge.