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Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Pregnant Woman Seeking Emergency Abortion (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, the pregnant mother who sought permission to obtain an emergency abortion, on Monday.

“These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s seven-page ruling read. The court found that Cox’s doctor, Dr. Damla Karsan, had “asked a court to pre-authorize the abortion yet she could not, or at least did not, attest to the court that Ms. Cox’s condition poses the risks the exception requires.”

Cox, who is 20 weeks pregnant and a mother of two, had filed a lawsuit against Texas over its restrictive abortion bans. Her fetus was found to have a fatal condition known as Trisomy 18. The baby has no chance of survival, but under state law, there are only two options available to Cox: a vaginal delivery, or a C-section. Either option would risk her life or her ability to have children in the future.

Earlier on Monday, Cox’s lawyers said she was forced to flee the state to get medical care.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not even leaning centre in most cases anymore..

I'd say Bernie and most of the Squad are mostly European style Social Democrats, which is center-left, but the likes of Biden, Manchin, Cuellar and Jeffries are just plain right wing and most of the leadership is much closer to them than the center.

They keep going towards the right every time the Republicans do, convinced that the tiny sliver between their rightmost and the least right wing Republicans is the majority of the population while ignoring the left completely when not demanding "unity" (read: obedience) around election time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s because the money that finds its way into the party only does so at the behest of the billionaires and millionaires. If they start leaning left, with more candidates that push for labor reforms like AOC, that money gets cut off. Political parties under capitalism can only operate one way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well political parties under UNREGULATED capitalism, at least.

While of course far from perfect, multiparty systems in capitalist countries that HAVEN'T made legal bribes an integral part of their political system tend to have politicians MUCH more representative of the general population than in the US. Imagine that!