more Texas laws about the unborn

[Malcolm]

Texas 3rd in job growth rate, 2nd in # of jobs created. Certainly not 50% of all jobs.

Eh... still enough to show it'd hurt the rest of the country more than it'd hurt TX.

I doubt it. They get their federal funding cut, they'll bitch and fall in line like any one else.

[GORDON]

I am sure Catt.can provide this data... I would bet a dollar that the give/take of federal money in Texas is so close to 1:1 that nothing would really change, and once they close their borders to poor illegals, and start accepting immigration with actual skills, in 5 years they will be a massive world economy.

[GORDON]

... at which time the rest of the United states will work themselves into a frenzy over that lost tax revenue andd reannex Texas, a war under the guise of "they are abusing their minority Mexican population," when in reality it is another war about oil.

[Malcolm]

I am sure Catt.can provide this data... I would bet a dollar that the give/take of federal money in Texas is so close to 1:1 that nothing would really change, and once they close their borders to poor illegals, and start accepting immigration with actual skills, in 5 years they will be a massive world economy.

Your faith in their competence and resistance to corruption is commendable, but misplaced.

[GORDON]

I disagree.

[Vince]

I'm with Gordo on this. Texas' economy is booming. Withhold those federal taxes and make them state taxes and they'll be fine. Plus with no EPA stranglehold, Carrier is likely to start making their A/C units in TX rather than Mexico.

[TheCatt]

I am sure Catt.can provide this data... I would bet a dollar that the give/take of federal money in Texas is so close to 1:1 that nothing would really change, and once they close their borders to poor illegals, and start accepting immigration with actual skills, in 5 years they will be a massive world economy.

Texas gets 40% more back than they give. Most states are net receivers (thanks deficit!)
Source

[Vince]

Once they are their own nation, they can print their money out of thin air too

[Malcolm]

Texas readies itself for another judicial beatdown.

Texas intends to require aborted fetuses to be buried or cremated come September, adding new abortion regulations after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's restrictive clinic laws.
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Similar fetal remain rules in Indiana are on hold after a federal judge granted a temporary injunction last week against that state's sweeping new anti-abortion law.

Yeah, totally about women's health.

[Vince]

Yeah, women's health.

Finally, Waddill began strangling the child in full view of Cornelsen and other nurses. No one stopped him. He was quoted saying, “This baby won’t stop breathing!”

[Malcolm]

Yeah, women's health.

Finally, Waddill began strangling the child in full view of Cornelsen and other nurses. No one stopped him. He was quoted saying, “This baby won’t stop breathing!”

Bullshit.

When the baby was autopsied later, an examination of the lungs indicated that the baby had been breathing for at least 30 minutes. There were bruises on her throat, consistent with strangulation.

The later popular focus of the incident (Waddill's purported strangulation of the fetus) came not from forensic evidence, but testimony...

And more bullshit.

Statistics from the 1970s are harder to come by, but an article in The Sydney Morning Herald claims that these babies had about a 71 percent survival rate if given medical attention promptly. So it is possible – if not very likely – that the baby would have survived if she had continued to be treated in the ICU.

Even those condemning the doctor conceded that there was virtually no chance the fetus would have survived had care been rendered.

And it was using outdated, forty-year old tech methods that no one uses anymore.

However, the circumstances under which that abortion went terribly wrong have long since been made exceedingly unlikely due to advances in medicine. Saline abortions were almost never used after the 1970s (due to risk to the mother), and today, updated diagnostic devices ensure that both patients and doctors receive a much better idea of how advanced a pregnancy is before proceeding with its termination.

Let's bring up all the other medical shit we did four decades previous that are now halted because we know better. Try a website that's not getting ad dollars from faith-based dating sites.

[Vince]

Ad dollars? You see ads? n00b

[TPRJones]

I am sure Catt.can provide this data... I would bet a dollar that the give/take of federal money in Texas is so close to 1:1 that nothing would really change...

Texas used to pay more than we got, up until Obama. Since then some of the expansions of his social programs have flipped it just over the edge the other way.

But if Texas split off spending would drop by 80% immediately as all those Democrat social programs the feds require the states to administer ends overnight.

[Malcolm]

Let's take a look at one of the many consequences that occurs when the fucktards in your state make abortion laws so restrictive they're declared illegal by the Supreme Court half a decade later:

The state’s rate of maternal mortality nearly doubled between 2010 and 2014, according to research published by the medical journal "Obstetrics and Gynecology." Although maternal mortality rates are up nationwide, no other state experienced such a sharp rise, the study’s authors found.
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The researchers, led by Marian MacDorman, a professor at the University of Maryland Population Research Center, found that between 2000 and 2010, Texas saw only a “modest increase” in maternal mortality, from 17.7 to 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births.

Save the babies, kill the mothers. Remind me again how all those regulations are for health reasons.

The study mentioned “changes to the provision of women’s health services” — a reference to cuts made by state lawmakers in 2011 that stripped funding from Planned Parenthood and other women’s health and family planning services — but the researchers stopped short of saying whether that policy change had any effect on the numbers.

Probably because the researchers wanted to keep their jobs.

[Malcolm]

Cali, in a rare moment of clarity, declares religion is not an excuse to pass ignorance on to others.

[Malcolm]

Dubyuh-appointed judge slaps Mississippi in the face with his dick.

A federal judge handed a victory to Planned Parenthood on Thursday in blocking a Mississippi law that banned the state's Medicaid program from spending money on healthcare providers that offer abortions.
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Federal courts have agreed, with Planned Parenthood securing similar victories in Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio, Florida, Arizona, Alabama and Arkansas.

That'd be state governors with a score of zero, and PP with eight slam dunks in a row.

[Malcolm]

Alabama loses again.

[Malcolm]

Ohio asks for a bitchslapping.

Ohio's Legislature has passed a bill that would ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is typically around six weeks after conception — before many women even realize they're pregnant.
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the bill does not include exceptions for rape or incest — the only exception would be if the life of the woman were in danger.
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"But the Heartbeat Bill didn't move forward on its own," Ingles reports. It was expected the legislation could be folded into a measure that would ban abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy. But in a somewhat surprising move, it was attached to a child abuse bill that had widespread support among Republicans and Democrats."

Sounds legit. Fuck you, Ohio.

But let's not leave out Texas.

Texas law requires women seeking an abortion to begin the three-day process with a state-mandated booklet, “A Woman’s Right to Know.” Rather than finding useful information in it, Skinner, who said she was certain she wanted the procedure, was filled with fear after reading debunked claims and bad science.

“Essentially what it says is that when you get an abortion, you stand the risk of breast cancer, infertility and death from bleeding out,” Skinner said of the booklet.
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Busby said the booklet is clearly intended to “alarm someone who is seeking an abortion.”
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A study by the Informed Consent Project out of Rutgers University found that the previous version of “A Woman’s Right to Know,” which is largely similar to the most recent revision, found that 30 percent of all statements made in the booklet are medically inaccurate. Of statements about the first trimester, nearly half of all the statements had medical inaccuracies.

[Malcolm]

Texas tries to replace PP, fails miserably.

Last summer, Texas gave $1.6 million to an anti-abortion organization called the Heidi Group to help strengthen small clinics that specialize in women's health like Planned Parenthood but don't offer abortions. The goal was to help the clinics boost their patient rolls and show there would be no gap in services if the nation's largest abortion provider had to scale back.
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But eight months later, the Heidi Group has little to show for its work. An Associated Press review found the nonprofit has done little of the outreach it promised, such as helping clinics promote their services on Facebook, or airing public service announcements. It hasn't made good on plans to establish a 1-800 number to help women find providers or ensure that all clinics have updated websites.

[Malcolm]

Turns out most abortions aren't rocket science.

Among a cohort of 1,000 women, virtually all of them (99.2%, 95% CI 98.4%-99.7%) reported having ended their pregnancies and 94.7% (93.1% to 96.0%) reported a successful medical abortion without surgical intervention, wrote Abigail R.A. Aiken, MD, MPH, PhD, of the University of Texas at Austin, and colleagues in The BMJ.

"The biggest take away from this is that self-sourced medication abortion conducted entirely outside the formal healthcare setting can be safe and effective. Moreover, women are highly capable of managing their own abortions and seeking medical attention when the need arises," Aiken told MedPage Today.

Amazing. It's like if you don't use every bullshit sham "law" in the world to delay it, it gets safer and easier.