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

    That says overall turnout increased 7%< not that trump increased his by 7%… Not sure if you noticed, but he lost 2020…

    And that’s not even getting into how trump did what Republican voters wanted, Biden hasn’t .

    So even if Trump’s went up, what does that have to do with Biden’s?

    But I’m tired of not noticing your username till I’m roped into conversations.

    I’d rather just never see it again, so that’s what I’m doing. Don’t expect anymore replies, I’ll never see them.

    Have a good day u/SatansMaggotyCumFart

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      10 months ago

      Your comment:

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

      My response:

      …voter turnout rose 7 percentage points over 2016, resulting in a total of 66% of U.S. adult citizens casting a ballot in the 2020 election.

      So you move goalposts and get pissed off for being called out and block me? En