Texas Supreme Court rules against woman who sought abortion hours after she says she’ll travel out of state
Texas Supreme Court rules against woman who sought abortion hours after she says she’ll travel out of state
A state district judge granted the request Thursday, but the Texas Supreme Court directed the lower court to vacate its order on Monday.
A state district judge granted the request Thursday, but the Texas Supreme Court directed the lower court to vacate its order on Monday.
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I actually read the 7 page opinion, because normally there is at least some shred of reasonableness in these crazy opinions. But this one ... those 7 pages have nothing.
I'll just leave this little nugget from the end:
The points we have made above provide some clarity about the legal standards and framework for this sensitive area of Texas law. The courts cannot go further by entering into the medical-judgment arena.
The really telling part of all of this is that there was no reason for this to be a thing. The state attorney general chose to fight this specific case. Then chose to send a letter to every hospital saying the injunction did not actually protect them, and chose to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court.
None of that had to happen. He could have let the extreme cases go through while fighting to remove women's rights on the more "controversial" cases, but instead chose to make a test case out the most extreme interpretation of his extremist ideology.
Despite this, the court seems willfully blind to the fact that the reason for needing an injunction is that the state is acting in demonstorable bad faith.
Side note. Remember when the US SC ruled that this law could not be challenged because the state was not going to be the one enforcing it?