In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.

Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients,

  • @Ensign_Crab
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    -51 month ago

    Oh stop making excuses for the Jim Crow Filibuster.

    Democrats had the seats and just enough no votes. Because they ALWAYS find the no votes.

    Children being forced to carry rapists’ offspring to term was the price that they were delighted to pay to keep their procedural excuse for inaction.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      51 month ago

      I’m not “making execuses” for it — I’m pointing out the reality that the votes to end it haven’t been there, and how that happened.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        -41 month ago

        We gave Democrats the means to codify Roe.

        They chose to save the filibuster instead. They always do and always will.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          81 month ago

          You’re lumping the whole group together, which isn’t a good way to describe what happened when 50 Republicans wanted to block and somewhere around 3-5 Democrats out of 50 wanted to.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            -51 month ago

            Democrats expect greater lockstep than that from their voters.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              71 month ago

              So you’re mostly interested in trolling and blaming Democrats as a group rather than electing enough willing Democrats to actually change things.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                -51 month ago

                I’m done being lied to. There is no amount of Democrats that will change things. There are always just enough turncoats.

                  • @Ensign_Crab
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                    01 month ago

                    People said that repeatedly about climate. Then we passed the Inflation Reduction Act.

                    Well, it’s completely inadequate to the task at hand, so I fully expect centrists to coast on it forever like they did with the ACA.