Ken Paxton issues threat after judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, can get an abortion
The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has threatened to prosecute any doctor who provides an abortion to Kate Cox, a woman with a non-viable pregnancy, advising hospitals to ignore a court order issued on Thursday allowing her to get the procedure.
The rightwing Paxton issued the warning to three Houston-area hospitals after a Texas judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, may obtain an abortion under the narrow medical exceptions offered by the state bans.
In a brazen dismissal of the court’s decision, Paxton wrote that the judge’s order “will not insulate hospitals, doctors or anyone else from civil and criminal liability”.
Paxton also wrote that the hospital where Cox obtains an abortion “may be liable for negligent credentialing the physician” who performs the procedure.
For the Republicans, it’s not about protecting babies, it’s about punishing women.
Just plain cruelty. There’s no hate like Christian love.
Fuck that guy. I hope his dick falls off
If karma were real, it’d be long gone
Maybe it’s already gone, and that’s why he’s so angry.
I didn’t get nearly so angry when I cut my dick off, I think he’s just hateful
As a physician, I am completely lost as to why any OB-GYN (or other healthcare professional, for that matter) still feels comfortable practicing in the state of Texas.
They literally criminalized healthcare and turned doctors into potential perps. I’d be terrified that a patient unplanned miscarriage would turn into a murder investigation with me as the primary suspect.
I could totally see Texas go after a physician with SWAT and trash their house and kill their dog when bringing them in just to make an example for everyone else.
Sad but I can’t imagine practicing in Texas and feeling safe.
So hold him in contempt of court. Otherwise he’ll be emboldened and do it more
Given the diagnosis and complications that have already occurred, this seems like it goes beyond contempt of court to me. I would consider this to be attempted murder of the mother.
You guys remember Death Panels, the anti-Obamacare cry that legislatures want to get between you and your doctor to decide who can get care?
Every Republican who jumped on that bandwagon needs to eat crow and realize they flipped like a bitch when it suited their anti-abortion argument.
They’re not gonna eat crow; they knew they were referring to themselves.
They were worried that they wouldn’t be the ones running the death panels
That don’t care. They don’t even feel. Unless it’s anger
Well careful now… Mike Johnson was ordained by God, almost a second Moses, and those rights to rule are not from government but the Almighty. And we all know Anger isn’t from God but from the devil.
/s (if it wasn’t obvious)
Keep banning books and privatizing schools folks, this is the indoctrination we’ll end up with.
He doesn’t care about a baby that won’t even be born, he just wants her to die for being a woman who had sex with someone who wasn’t him.
Some of these republicans have never even heard of angry mobs pulling people who destroy their lives out of their homes and returning the favor. Just fucking with people with impunity.
That’s what protests originally were for. The reason they’re called demonstrations is because you’re demonstrating the number of people that will be armed and angry if the people in power ignore you. Without that implied threat, they’re at most mildly inconvenient. It’s meant to be a final check and balance, if you fuck up badly enough, the people beat you to death and burn your house down.
It should never have to come to that, but taking it off the table entirely renders the first step a bit pointless.
They’re going to kill this woman, they’re going to do it on national TV… and then they’re going to cheer about it
Have you done your duty and told a conservative they’re an idiot today?
I hope that they keep doubling down. When unlikely voters show up… They tend to vote down ballot.
Literally the dog that caught the car.
Not exactly. There was a nice lady at the bus stop I was having a normal conversation with, and after 10 or 15 minutes she suddenly started talking angrily about how “blacks” are “lazy” and always on the news for doing something.
I was speechless, so she turned to me and asked, “do you like the blacks?” I slowly nodded my head, it was all I could do, I was so shocked. Then she goes “oh, okay,” and just drops the subject. Now I’m shocked for a second time at how damn polite this woman is about such a hateful belief.
Later on, the bus comes, and we get on. For context, the driver is a black man, and there are a few other people on the bus, none of them white. She has a very friendly conversation with the driver, and a one point she turns to me, and she tries to tell me he’s one of the good “blacks,” except instead of “blacks” she makes a vague gesture with her hand and adds, “like I was telling you about.”
All this to say, I was too baffled to call her an idiot. Sorry for going way off topic, I’ve just been stuck on that weird interaction all day. I mean, I’ve met racist people before, but I’ve never been treated so much like one of the “in group” that agrees with them, especially after saying that I don’t. For that matter, I’ve never been politely asked, “Do you like the blacks?” before. Ugh, sorry. Just a weird day.
He just interfered with this woman’s ability to pursue legal Healthcare to protect her life. If she dies as a result of the medical complications associated with the pregnancy, I don’t see how he doesn’t get charged with manslaughter at a minimum.
Republicans are fucking ghouls.
can we just destroy texas
As someone who lives in Texas: FUCKING PLEASE.
But let those of us not on the Christian Nationalist train get refugee status in the states that are still sane though, please and thank you!
What an efficient use of tax dollars. Smh
Get out of texas as quickly as you can.
Where is the armed mob outside of his office demanded the defense of freedom?
You mean all the good guys with a gun who are going to protect us from tyranny?
Yes. Those guys.
