Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to pull funding from a children’s hospital after a doctor went viral for telling patients they are not legally required to disclose their citizenship status.

Dr. Tony Pastor, an adult congenital cardiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, posted a video on TikTok, responding to Abbott’s executive orderrequiring Texas public hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to report on health care for undocumented immigrants. The order was implemented Nov. 1.

  • @[email protected]
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    165 hours ago

    Is the right to state facts not a thing anymore? I thought speech was in the Constitution or something.

  • @BlitzoTheOisSilent
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    478 hours ago

    Get used to hearing the “pull funding” threat, it’s how they’re going to start chipping away at minority rights (LGBTQ+, women, Latino, Black, etc).

    Have your three branches of government pass an act tying a state-decision to federal funding ala the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, and we’re going to see state’s comply.

    • @cmbabul
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      97 hours ago

      You’re very right but there are a few blue states like California that could be tell the feds to fuck right off. Granted that’s the start of a civil war but we’re kinda already on that path one way or another

  • @ovalofsand
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    6912 hours ago

    Take money away from a children’s hospital? I don’t know if that would go over well

    • @Noodle07
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      126 hours ago

      They wouldn’t be sick in the first place if they were good Christians

    • Flying Squid
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      139 hours ago

      All they have to say is something like the doctors are forcing the kids to become transgender and the Trump fans will all scream about how it must be shut down.

      • @StupidBrotherInLaw
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        45 hours ago

        Don’t forget how the medical staff molests kids under anesthesia. The MAGATs love their paedo hunts.

      • Irremarkable
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        1410 hours ago

        To be entirely fair that’s a ridiculously low bar to clear considering they hate children.

          • Bakkoda
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            68 hours ago

            I really don’t want to be a judgemental prick but even if you didn’t know the context of this photo… Look at those absolute ghoulish looking humans. Holy shit.

      • Flying Squid
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        79 hours ago

        They hate them before they’re born too. Have you ever heard about them calling for any sort of free prenatal care? Let alone free or even affordable healthcare for pregnant women? If your fetus dies but it could have been saved if you had the money, fuck you, lady. God’s will.

  • FuglyDuck
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    911 hours ago

    Abbot is a limp chode

    he should fuck off to someplace that doesn’t have internet so we can forget about him.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 hours ago

        Anyone rational is looking at alternatives to Texas.

        Anyone with any amount of desirable skills and foresight is looking at alternatives to the US.