The State of Texas lost its Supreme Court case two weeks ago when the Court ruled 5-3 that the state’s rules requiring clinics’ doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital in the same area as the clinic was an undue burden on women, and requiring the clinics be outfitted as though they were “ambulatory surgical …
Fred Clark tells you. The founding myth of this new, stridently political faith says that this politicizing arose in reaction to the Roe v. Wade decision acknowledging the legal right to abortion. After “activist” judges “legislated” from the bench, evangelicals recoiled in horror and rose up, in Falwell’s phrase, to “take back America.” [snip] In …
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From Majikthise via Pharyngula comes a link to this harrowing story of a pregnant woman, her husband, and the choice he had to face. I’m not gonna excerpt anything, because the entire post should be read.
So those of us who advocated against Alito and for a filibuster against his ascension to the Supreme Court have had one of our fears justified. The anti-abortion crowd’s tactics are clear; nibble away at Roe v. Wade around the edges until it’s meaningless. If the health of the mother has no value, as today’s …