Doing nothing and then hauling over their corpses to camp out on his lawn would be a political ploy. Flying at risk patients out of state because you can’t legally treat them is basic risk assessment.
My guess is that these were wealthy women who were able to afford the transfer. I highly doubt that the hospital or any insurance company paid for the transfers. I would bet that there were other women who were unable to afford similar care and had to suffer the consequences.
I can't understand the reasoning. If you think abortion is murder, how can it be pro-life to say "don't worry, your murder is just a short bus-ride away". And if you're pro-choice, how can it be acceptable to say "don't worry, your rights are just a short bus ride away".
It's like the statement was engineered to aggravate pro-choice and pro-life.
Given there's suggestions he has Parkinson's or has dementia, it might also be the medication. Something like haldol, even in low doses, will make him sleepy.
TBF he's old. I had trouble staying awake in class when I was in my teens and twenties. No surprise an old man has similar issues during a long day in court.
Perhaps if he hadn't gone around calling his opponent 'sleepy' for years on end, people would have been more charitable and assumed he'd simply slept poorly.
The Tennessee attorney general’s office’s only “defense” was that the plaintiffs—several of whom have made clear they want to have children and families, but fear Tennessee’s abortion ban—don’t respect life. “The entire presentation of the other side, I have not heard one acknowledgment of the fact that when they mention abortion care, what that involves is the termination of another life,” Hermandorfer said.
People who need to terminate a non-viable fetus in order to save the life of the mother don't respect life? The cumulative intellect at the Tennessee Attorney General's office is just astonishing.
As a Tennessean… fuck Bill Lee. I’m so sick of this shit.
My wife damn near died a few years ago when an ectopic pregnancy ruptured. It would have been a wanted child. If this happened today, I’d lose a wife and our two kids would lose a mother.
Fuck the Republican Party. Fuck anybody who associates with them. Fuck any loser who spouts “both sides” or “genocide Joe” bullshit.
How is this even defensible? With my biggest stretch of open-mindedness for the ignorant, I can understand the argument that Christians don’t want their taxes funding abortions for those on state aid.
Slingshot and trafficking laws make it abundantly clear that this is about nothing but control, and I’ve yet to read or hear an argument to the contrary.
Historically, that would be true, but this SCOTUS is wild. Standing doesn't mean much anymore. Take, for example, the recent ruling from the anti-lgbt web developer in the 303 Creative v Elenis decision. Smith had not started a business at the time the original suit was filed, and, after she had begun operating, shr did not have any requests to make such a wedding site as described in the suit. During an appeal, she provided a false request -- for a man already married to a woman -- as her standing. Her standing was obviously bullshit; she had none.
Not that it really helps. Our current SCOTUS will certainly not agree to hear a case that could actually benefit us and defend our civil rights. We should probably start fresh with a new SCOTUS if we want any of that.
Don't just follow state legislature races, vote in them! And local level elections as well. Vote in every election at every level. The reason the Republicans have the power that they do right now is because they have focused on taking over state legislatures for the last 20+ years with the intent of gaining control of the redistricting process in every state they can. They have been horrifyingly successful.
In 2009, Republicans controlled both chambers in just 14 state legislatures. Six years later, they had total control in more than double that number. And that's not even the full, bad story for Democrats. Look at their numbers. In 2009, Democrats had full control in 27 state legislatures; by 2015 that number was down to 11, the lowest ebb for total Democratic control since, at least, 1978.
With control of those maps, the Republicans have all but election proofed their control in many states. In Ohio, for example, Trump won with 54% of the vote but the Republicans won 79% of the Senate seats in 2022. In Wisconsin, a Democrat won the Governor's mansion with 51.2% of the vote but Republicans still took 65% of the state senate legislature.
In Arizona, the Republican legislature is trying to make themselves the sole authority in appointing presidential electors. This could allow them to claim fraud in the next election and tie the results up in court with the same lies they used in 2020. Then, when the deadline for for certification comes up, they could declare their own slate of electors to send to DC rather than the slate that the voters chose.
For the last couple cycles, the Republicans, particularly the more extreme branches, have been focused on local level races trying to take over school boards, city councils, and elected law enforcement positions. We as a society cannot let that happen. These people only seek to line their own pockets and accumulate power for themselves and their allies.
Vote in every election as if your life, or at least your livelihood, depends on it. Because someday it just may.
Why would you ask an LLM, that is known for lying, a question about medical risks? You have no way of knowing how much of that information is just made up or scraped from some old Reddit post.
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