Abortion ban "exceptions" don't exist. They never existed. Not for rape. Not for incest. Not for the life of the mother. The only people they're designed to protect is the politicians who tout them as a fraudulent defense of an inhumane policy. Exceptions are a talking point and nothing else. - ThreadSky

gbbranstetter.bsky.social • 446 days ago

Abortion ban "exceptions" don't exist. They never existed. Not for rape. Not for incest. Not for the life of the mother. The only people they're designed to protect is the politicians who tout them as a fraudulent defense of an inhumane policy. Exceptions are a talking point and nothing else.

Reposted from Joshua J. Friedman

NEW: The Texas Supreme Court VACATES the temporary restraining order that would have allowed Kate Cox to get an abortion in Texas, stating that her situation, as articulated, falls outside the medical-necessity exception www.txcourts.gov/media/145764...

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dd9000.bsky.social•446 days ago

That opinion is, I think, worse than any by tRUmp lawyers. It meanders all over the place and is full of internal contradictions.

abbie4science.bsky.social•446 days ago

they seem to work in Europe because they are broad and accepted.

ljrwritenow.bsky.social•446 days ago

Shameful.

lauowolf.bsky.social•446 days ago

It's worse than it was pre-Roe
Abortion was legal with approval of a three-doctor board in Maryland
So there were legal abortions on grounds like the mother's health and life and even mental health
And it was medical people deciding
Still there were lots of illegal abortions, which was why Roe
Sigh

forevernever.bsky.social•446 days ago

If you consider abortion murder, there is zero reason you would actually allow any exceptions.

brianomite.bsky.social•446 days ago

Have we already memory holed the Herschel Walker exception

bluememe.bsky.social•446 days ago

But it seems fair to analogize the life of the mother exception to self defense, which conservatives frequently if selectively invoke to justify shootings.

torshi.bsky.social•446 days ago

Literally just exist so that when someone dies giving birth to a dead baby they can blame her for not getting an exception, and/or if she tried to, blame her for not attempting it sooner

devin-eleven.bsky.social•446 days ago

I hope voters get the message, centrists seem to live in a state of denial.

martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social•446 days ago

#AntiAbortionAHoles #WingNutWankers

jenniferholton7.bsky.social•446 days ago

And this is why any limits at all on abortion access (based on gestational age) are unacceptable. 20 week bans, which are now regarded as relatively liberal, almost exclusively punish pregnant people having a medical crisis.

hrlatinam.bsky.social•439 days ago

I hope Americans will be comfortable with judges deciding what medication we can and cannot take and what procedures are a medical necessity for us.

andrew3000.bsky.social•446 days ago

I'm still amazed, but probably shouldn't be, by the various examples of abortions that the right has tried to say aren't abortions.

telstarman.bsky.social•446 days ago

Well, the only moral abortion is the one that saves a republican man's political career.

verygoodmissjones.bsky.social•446 days ago

It is time for corporations to leave Texas, since their female employees are no longer safe there. And it is time for Texan women and families who are able to relocate to a safer state.

overallthiscrap.bsky.social•446 days ago

Texas treats it’s dog better than it’s women .. this shit would be considered animal abuse to let a creature suffer and almost die before you help it ..

orionkidder.bsky.social•446 days ago

Indeed. The true exceptions are for wealthy women who can afford to skirt the law.

danlather.bsky.social•446 days ago

Exceptions are distractions and entirely too much oxygen is wasted discussing them. Either the state respects self-ownership and consent or it doesn't. That's it.

teroterotero.bsky.social•446 days ago

And this whole sick plot worked liken a charm. All political reporters kept talking about exceptions, misleading voters profoundly about what was at stake. The idea that GOP simply lies about all key issues is never going to sink in with US journalists.

overallthiscrap.bsky.social•446 days ago

Never will

drgeophysics.bsky.social•446 days ago

A disgrace.

cannon4nh.bsky.social•446 days ago

Supposed "exemptions" are something to point to in order to allow politicians to save face after the fact. The "exemptions" don't actually exist for you or I.

muttgoalie1909.bsky.social•446 days ago

Fuck Texas. That's it. There's not much else to say.

etamny.bsky.social•446 days ago

🎯

adaytaramember.bsky.social•446 days ago

*talking point to make moderate voters feel better

thelittlepakeha.net•446 days ago

they're all about feelings. if someone genuinely believed that abortion was murder there could never be an exception for rape, and probably not for incest either. it's not morally consistent. it just lays bare that it's about punishing women who consent to sex.

benderdict.bsky.social•446 days ago

Unless you require the preg women to attest what family member got them pregnant, or force in utero dna testing, (and then what is the State gonna fucking do about it anyways?) the incest one is completely unenforceable.

adaytaramember.bsky.social•446 days ago

Debating the number of weeks is just an exercise in stupidity for people disconnected from reality. What it comes down to is criminalizing basic healthcare and state control over pregnancy. Logically inconsistent for people who think abortion is murder to think it’s okay in some instances!!

jce80.bsky.social•446 days ago

But I was assured by Douthat and his buddies that physicians were overreacting and would most definitely be able to care for their patients without any repercussions.

roosefella.bsky.social•446 days ago

I have no doubt he's typing up his mea culpa at this very moment

jce80.bsky.social•446 days ago

Lol!

enceladusty.bsky.social•445 days ago

I recall him tweeting about how red states just needed a little time to work through the policy details relax everyone.

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