more Texas laws about the unborn

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:45 pm

Marlise Munoz, 33, is 18 weeks pregnant and suffered a suspected pulmonary embolism and collapsed on November 26. Her husband, Erick, says his wife is brain dead and wants her removed from a respirator because she had previously stated she wouldn't want to live in such circumstances. However, Texas law favors the preborn child.

Emphasis mine.

I'm torn. On one hand, this is blatant and insanely overreaching government intervention into the literal lives of its citizens. The husband has made his wishes quite clear, and it's likely he'll be the one taking care of the kid if it survives.

On the flip side, one wonders if the part in bold included "even if I'm pregnant." If so, the state of Texas is being as medically intrusive as any Obamacare regulation because they've made her a state run human incubator. If not, then I'm not sure about the notion of forcing fatherhood on this dude when he was thinking he'd be going into it with his wife. I'm still inclined to go with the husband as opposed to the gov't. Unless Texas has the kid's grandparents or aunts/uncles behind them, I don't see how the state trumps the family.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 1:54 pm

Judge cuts life support.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:11 pm

Family beats the shit out of their daughter to induce an abortion. Maybe because getting an abortion in Texas requires one to jump through an endless number of bureaucratic hoops and make the journey to one of the ever decreasing number of places that state hasn't legislated out of existence yet.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:13 pm

95% of women don't regret abortions. Oops, wrong number.

Every six months, the women were asked whether they felt their decision to have an abortion was the right choice. They were also asked about positive and negative emotions, including relief, happiness, regret, guilt, sadness and anger. Women may experience a mix of positive and negative emotions around an abortion, and these emotions may or may not influence whether they feel they made the right choice, the researchers said.

In the raw data, 95 percent of the women reported they'd made the right choice to have an abortion in each of the follow-up surveys. This number isn't entirely accurate, because some women didn't answer every survey, and it doesn't take into account individual variation over time, Rocca said. After statistical adjustment to account for these factors, the researchers found that more than 99 percent of women reported having made the right decision at every follow-up.

It's 99%.

Alhazad · Post by **Alhazad** » Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:41 pm

It'd be nice to see either number publicized.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 1:13 pm

Supreme Court has to step in because the state of Texas is run by dicks.

The state, backed by the appeals court, argued that traveling about 150 miles to obtain an abortion is not an undue burden. Women in west Texas who would not have a clinic even that close could travel into New Mexico, the court said.

If a Texan had to drive 150 miles to get a gun (also Constitutionally protected) they would go apeshit.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Nov 13, 2015 3:34 pm

Texas law written by assholes going to Supreme Court.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 1:18 pm

Wisconsin law struck down.

The law in question requires doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they carry out the procedure.
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A panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in a 2-1 ruling concluded Monday the medical benefit to the requirement was “nonexistent” and “cannot be taken seriously as a measure to improve women’s health.”
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“What makes no sense is to abridge the constitutional right to an abortion on the basis of spurious contentions regarding women’s health – and the abridgment challenged in this case would actually endanger women’s health,” Judge Richard Posner wrote for the majority.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:28 pm

Rick Allgeyer, director of research at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission dared to support PP funding in Texas. Shortly after he co-wrote a study suggesting this, he was forced to announce his retirement.

“It’s one thing for an agency to provide data upon request. It’s quite another to be listed as a ‘co-author’ on a deeply flawed and highly political report,” Nelson told the Associated Press last week. “I’ve communicated strong concerns to the agency. This should not have happened, and we need to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

That's a Texas state senator calling someone out for making an issue political. I also don't see any specific refutations that elaborate on the flaws mentioned.

Rick Allgeyer, director of research at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, had teamed up with researchers from the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center to look at what happened after Texas booted Planned Parenthood from its state-run Women’s Health Program in 2013.

Their study, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine early this month...

You'll note both those institutions are completely disregarded by mainstream scientists and have never done studies like this before. I bet state Senator Jane Nelson and her election team have dozens of white papers on this subject to their credit. I can't seem to find any...

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 1:21 pm

John Oliver on TRAP laws.

For instance, thanks to strict regulations, the states of Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota are down to one abortion clinic each.

“That’s right, Mississippi now has four times as many s’s as abortion clinics,” Oliver said.

Glad I'm out of that shit state.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 1:23 pm

Supreme Court case begins. I hope they bitch slap that state.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 4:01 pm

"Still accessible."

But she found that getting an appointment for an abortion, even in one of the country’s largest metropolitan areas, proved almost as stressful as the unwanted pregnancy. The number of abortion clinics in Texas has shrunk by half since a 2013 state law imposed new regulations that many said they found impossible to meet. When Amy called the two clinics here just after New Year’s, and a third in Dallas, the earliest available appointment was on Jan. 22.
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Another patient at the clinic last week, Amber, 22, said that she had initially been told she would have to wait 19 days for an abortion, and that she was relieved when the clinic was able to see her in 10 days, because of a cancellation.
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Women in the Fort Worth area have more options than many others. Smaller cities, including Beaumont, Lubbock, Waco and Killeen, have been left without a single abortion clinic. But even for women here, and in Houston, San Antonio and Dallas, the law has left some waiting for weeks for abortions
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Candice Russell, a 32-year-old administrative assistant from Irving, was 12 weeks along when she learned she was pregnant in 2014, she said, and she faced a wait of two and a half weeks for an abortion in Dallas or Fort Worth.

Instead, Ms. Russell took out a high-interest payday loan and flew to California, where her partner lived and where she was able to get an abortion in a matter of days.

Yeah, accessible.

Stephanie, a 20-year-old student, said she had recently driven through the night to Albuquerque for an abortion 16 weeks into her pregnancy after she could not come up with the money in time to have the procedure done at a clinic in El Paso, where she lives. Because of the earlier Texas law that requires all abortions after 16 weeks to be done in surgical centers, her options were limited to the closest such center, 550 miles away in San Antonio, or a regular abortion clinic in New Mexico.

Totally.

Other patients at the clinic that weekend had driven from Lubbock, about 300 miles away, and Odessa, 320 miles away.

Just a hop, skip, and a jump away.

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Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 4:14 pm

Google searches on self-abortion how-tos have been on the rise. I'm sure you can guess which states have seen that delightful trend.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 4:32 pm

A gentleman like.me.leaves them a plan b pill next to the bed when be leaves in the middle of the night.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:18 pm

GORDON wrote:A gentleman like.me.leaves them a plan b pill next to the bed when be leaves in the middle of the night.

I hope you've got a hookup for those times when you whore around Texas.

The morning after pill is over the counter for anyone over 17 — regardless of gender. Unless, of course, you live in Texas or Mississippi, where pharmacists are refusing to dispense it to men.

Shit, or other places.

According to the study, 73 percent of the pharmacies that didn’t give emergency contraception to men said they needed to see the woman taking the pill or needed to see her ID card. Twenty-seven percent of them said they didn’t have the pills in stock.

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Post by **GORDON** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:57 pm

Malcolm wrote:
The morning after pill is over the counter for anyone over 17 — regardless of gender. Unless, of course, you live in Texas or Mississippi, where pharmacists are refusing to dispense it to men.

LOL if you buy your drugs in a brick and mortar.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:27 pm

GORDON wrote:
Malcolm wrote:
The morning after pill is over the counter for anyone over 17 — regardless of gender. Unless, of course, you live in Texas or Mississippi, where pharmacists are refusing to dispense it to men.
LOL if you buy your drugs in a brick and mortar.

Something tells me that a Plan B pill isn't something you want to roll the dice on with an online purchase.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:29 pm

Like it's my problem.

Post by **TPRJones** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:01 am

That sounds less gentlemanly.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:20 am

TPRJones wrote:That sounds less gentlemanly.

The effort makes me gentlemanly. Poor product makes me a victim, I got ripped off.