Me again.
Back on abortion news that is so hot it would burn if I had any fingertips left.
Yesterday, the supreme court declined to hear a case from the BIDEN administration about the draconian abortion law in Texas. The state was using that law to say, nah bro, even if a patient is on the verge of dying, emergency rooms don’t have to do an abortion. And they send the woman HOME.
In other words, in starker words, let the woman die instead of performing an abortion, which is the evidence-based standard of care for miscarriage. The problem is that the fetus isn’t dead YET, or at least their cardiac poles are working, and the woman isn’t sick enough YET.
Let the woman die.
Because the output of her uterus has a stronger case in front of the current supreme court than her right to life.
You know, the right to life is in the constitution’s preamble.
But, sure, why not deny a woman her rights?
After all, she is a lesser being than the clump of cells in her uterus.
They had punted a similar EMTALA case in June of this year. Do you remember?
EMTALA is a federal law that means everyone who presents to the emergency room gets the treatment they need. No matter what it is.
Ringing a bell now?
The thing is the Biden administration was asking to send the fifth circuit appeals court ruling on EMTALA and Texas back to a lower court to be retried.
The supreme court said nah.
I am not sure who is paying attention if anyone. There are a lot of other things commanding our attention: the 2024 general election, the devastating loss of life and property over 6 states after Hurricane Helene, the category 5 Hurricane Milton that is bearing down on almost the exact spot where Hurrican Helene hit Florida, the Russian bots that are trolling the news sites and giving out lies. I won’t even talk about their most current lie about FEMA money but it is certainly a lie.
Misdirection is the standard for all magic tricks.
I wonder what else they are doing when we aren’t paying attention.
To be clear, the they isn’t just the supreme court, but news media, and the aforementioned troll bots that are desperate to make you believe lies.
I am tired of being told that my life doesn’t matter, that what I want doesn’t matter by these clowns.
I am definitely tired of being reminded over and over and over and over and over again that because I am a woman my life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness matter less than the potential output of my uterus.
Don’t get me started on the fact that my husband and I do not have children. Which also makes us lesser.
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