Yep, this will hurt repubs in Texas. I think Paxton is wrong on this one. The fact that he went to the Supreme Court to block the lower court..I think that will be his undoing.
I would also challenge Texas’ ability to prohibit abortion by mail pills, since the mail system is federal and not state. I’m not sure how they state can have any say in that.
Also, this article:
More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Texas continues to be the largest state in the nation to ban nearly all abortions. But some questions and changes to abortion and birth control access have arisen since then.
www.texastribune.org
talks about the narrow exemptions for abortions, two of which are
substantial impairment of major bodily function”of a pregnant patient, and
State law says treatments for miscarriages, known as “spontaneous abortions” in medicine, and ectopic pregnancies, in which a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus and becomes unviable, do not count as illegal abortions. The key portion there is “becomes unviable”. This woman is almost guaranteed to have a still birth or the baby wont survive very long after birth.
And..
In response, state lawmakers
passed a law that now gives a legal defense to health care providers who exercise “reasonable judgment in providing medical treatment” for an “ectopic pregnancy at any location” or a “previable premature rupture of membranes,” which is when a pregnant patient’s amniotic fluid breaks before a fetus is determined to be able to survive outside of the uterus.
I’m not sure why this wouldn’t also apply to the condition this woman has.
Again, I think in this situation, should fall within the medical exemptions.
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