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.
For that to be true…
I’d think Biden would have had plans to put in motion the day he assumed office and Dems had all the power.
Instead once in office he said he needed to “research” things he’d promise that he’d do.
And that “research” coincidentally took just long enough for Republicans to control the House, at which point Biden said he couldn’t do anything.
Which sounds a lot like not pulling the chute until the last second, and getting interrupted and causing us to crash I to the ground.
If hed pulled it asap, that would have been his first two years when Dems had all the political power.