The Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S.
The order by the all-Republican court came more than 30 hours after Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from the Dallas area, received a temporary restraining order from a lower court judge that prevents Texas from enforcing the state’s ban in her case.
In a one-page order, the court said it was temporarily staying Thursday’s ruling “without regard to the merits.” The case is still pending.
I’m not a physically violent person, but this is one of those rare moments where do find myself wondering when someone (not me) will start exercising their 2d Amendment rights (the way gun nuts see it) against Paxton and anyone else who is willing to make women legally second class citizens. I think the joy of seeing Paxton’s head turn into red mist on liveleaks would greatly outweigh the very strong tendency I have to barf at gore.
Granted it would open the floodgates of right wing terror and would be accelerating the coming of whatever horrors are down the road, so not a good thing to happen in reality. But FUCK
It would, but I generally agree with the principal that one’s actions should never be dictated by fear of a conservative’s response, because whatever they do will be something they were going to do anyway.