WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.
The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law. The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues.
The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.
Without detailing their reasoning
As if we don’t already know.
Without detailing their pre-employment of Project 2025 tenets…
I need more coffee, it took me a moment to figure out what that headline actually meant.
They’re allowing (lets stand) not allowing (barring) something that goes against (violate) the thing that’s not allowed (ban)
Basically the supreme Court is allowing Texas to ban abortions. This ruling barrs, prevents, an exception to that ban.
Like I said, I understand the headline. My point is it’s poorly worded.
Yeah, the title could have easily just been: “Supreme Court upholds ban on emergency abortions in Texas” and it would be way clearer
I see a writing career in your future
Me too - that was poorly worded.
Barbarism.
That’s what it is. Simple barbarism.
The Supreme Court is currently illegitimate
So we need to create a new underground rail road for women. Let’s get women and families out of these areas. Red states don’t deserve them. Kindness always wins
Texas actually made it punishable to help a woman leave the state to get an abortion.
Well, that’s why this would be an underground railroad. If it was legal there wouldn’t be any need to hide it.
So be good at it.
Multiple normal states have already passed laws that protect women from any persecution for laws restricting their bodily freedoms. Mine included. And Ya they can try to take the women back but theres no way to tell why a woman left. It’s way easier to move a willing person over someone who is surrounded by a supportive community. I’d imagine this organization would help LGBTQ+ people escape as well.
Man history really repeats itself. Civil war 2.0 is on the horizon if the pattern keeps up
I’d do it still. Fuck 'em.
Edit: Just to be clear, there is a very strong argument for those laws being illegal. Nothing says a pregnant woman can’t visit another state, so why the fuck would leaving the state mean she can’t get an abortion when the state she’s visiting says it’s 100% legal?
This whole stupid ploy by the GOP is utter bullshit. Women are not things, yet under these laws they are being commoditized and dehumanized into objects meant to be controlled by local laws, and the shortsighted people enforcing those laws.
I gatta hand it to Putin… He is doing a fanatic job dividing this once strong and united county. His boy Trump really paid off.
Taking a moment to shout out Elevated Access. Its a charity full of private pilots and support staff who started gathering in response after RvW was repealed, in an effort to provide women with free flights from red states to blue states. I donated a hefty amount (for me) after we sold our house.
Now theyve expanded their services to trans people seeking care as well!
Love them, sad that they have to exist, but organizations like them give me hope for the future. It reminds me that no matter how bad things get, people will keep fighting.
I assume that’s part of the conservative goal due to how the senate works. They’re gerrymandering the shit out of house seats and hoping for a liberal flight so they can control government with their ever shrinking minority.
Red states wondering where all the entwives went…
Liberal flight is the only way they’ll learn. Even more so when they flee to neighboring rational states. Additionally with women regardless of location lean left. Outside of having check points in and out of red states, and know all women’s current pregnancy status. Enough women will leave to the point their male to female ratio is too out of balance and their populations years down the road.
So, now they can just make arbitrary decisions without explaining themselves? So much for our democracy.
They always could. And they’re not elected, so it’s nothing to do with democracy.
But they only issue opinions, they’ve never tried to enforce anything. Andrew Jackson famously ignored their decision in 1832, and nothing happened.
It’s really just another aspect of our society being built on trust and respect. And that trust and respect has been exploited and eroded in the past few decades.
Remember, government only exists by the consent of the governed.
Andrew Jackson famously ignored their decision in 1832, and nothing happened.
Even genocidal asshole racist clocks are right twice a day, or something.
Horrific: This will get people killed.
Women are already dying.
I look forward to stacking the court.
Biden will get to it one of these days!
Exactly. Like, who do you think has been in charge? It’s never going to happen because they want to campaign on it forever.
The good thing about climate change is it gives no fucks about their feelings, and their little Christian Caliphate won’t survive long.
