The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
In a unanimous ruling, the all-Republican court upheld the Texas law that opponents say is too vague when it comes to when medically necessary exceptions are allowed. The same issue was at the center of a separate lawsuit brought last year by Kate Cox, a mother of two from Dallas, who sought court permission to obtain an abortion after her fetus developed a fatal condition during a pregnancy that resulted in multiple trips to an emergency room.
Abortion rights activists have struggled to stem the tide of restrictions that have taken effect in most Republican-led states since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe vs Wade, which for nearly 50 years had affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion.
The court said the law’s exceptions, as written, are broad enough and that doctors would be misinterpreting the law if they declined to perform an abortion when the mother’s life is in danger.
Why the fuck do people still live in texas?
I was raised here. Now, after over 40 years of living here, I am finally leaving this summer. Fuck this entire fucking state. I’ll watch the flames of Texas from the comfort of the Pacific Northwest. Good god damned riddance.
I feel the same about Florida. Lived there for almost 40 years.
Welcome, life is good here. Stay the hell out of ID though - it might give you flashbacks.
“Pacific” Northwest. I have zero interest in Bigoted Inland Bumfuck Northwest.
There’s the rub. The outdoors and land in BIBN are beautiful and inexpensive but you have the local
wildlifebigotry to contend with.I don’t have enough money to move somewhere with schools that don’t suck
We didn’t either. But we saved for a few years, and found a cheap place to gain a foothold until we could do better for ourselves. Schools in Washington aren’t too bad.
Because the only way to change it is from within. If every blue vote leaves, then things will get much worse, much faster.
Only for the red votes that remain.
Then the other red states start getting the same ideas.
Okay… well, how’s that change from within working out for you?
Pretty well at a local level for our rural town.
The more solid red states there are, the easier it is for them to enact their bullshit at a federal level. Then it’s your problem, too.
Texas has been trending bluer in the last decade and the fact that these laws also get blue voters to leave is not by accident.