WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law. The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues.

The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.

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I look forward to stacking the court.

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Biden will get to it one of these days!

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Exactly. Like, who do you think has been in charge? It’s never going to happen because they want to campaign on it forever.

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I hate this phrasing. It’s not stacking the court. It’s fixing perceived political bias in the court back to neutral where it belongs.

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Or just fix the problem at its source, and disallow judges from holding a political party.

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The entire reason that they’re appointed positions in the first place was to prevent just that. The actual problem is that these are lifetime appointments with no way to remove them. What we really need is some damn term limits.

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So we need to create a new underground rail road for women. Let’s get women and families out of these areas. Red states don’t deserve them. Kindness always wins

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I assume that’s part of the conservative goal due to how the senate works. They’re gerrymandering the shit out of house seats and hoping for a liberal flight so they can control government with their ever shrinking minority.

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Liberal flight is the only way they’ll learn. Even more so when they flee to neighboring rational states. Additionally with women regardless of location lean left. Outside of having check points in and out of red states, and know all women’s current pregnancy status. Enough women will leave to the point their male to female ratio is too out of balance and their populations years down the road.

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The problem is it turns the swing states into guaranteed wins in the short term, and the census isn’t for another 6 years to balance house seats to match the populations.

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Red states wondering where all the entwives went…

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Texas actually made it punishable to help a woman leave the state to get an abortion.

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Well, that’s why this would be an underground railroad. If it was legal there wouldn’t be any need to hide it.

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Multiple normal states have already passed laws that protect women from any persecution for laws restricting their bodily freedoms. Mine included. And Ya they can try to take the women back but theres no way to tell why a woman left. It’s way easier to move a willing person over someone who is surrounded by a supportive community. I’d imagine this organization would help LGBTQ+ people escape as well.

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Man history really repeats itself. Civil war 2.0 is on the horizon if the pattern keeps up

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I’d do it still. Fuck 'em.

Edit: Just to be clear, there is a very strong argument for those laws being illegal. Nothing says a pregnant woman can’t visit another state, so why the fuck would leaving the state mean she can’t get an abortion when the state she’s visiting says it’s 100% legal?

This whole stupid ploy by the GOP is utter bullshit. Women are not things, yet under these laws they are being commoditized and dehumanized into objects meant to be controlled by local laws, and the shortsighted people enforcing those laws.

I gatta hand it to Putin… He is doing a fanatic job dividing this once strong and united county. His boy Trump really paid off.

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So be good at it.

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Taking a moment to shout out Elevated Access. Its a charity full of private pilots and support staff who started gathering in response after RvW was repealed, in an effort to provide women with free flights from red states to blue states. I donated a hefty amount (for me) after we sold our house.

Now theyve expanded their services to trans people seeking care as well!

Love them, sad that they have to exist, but organizations like them give me hope for the future. It reminds me that no matter how bad things get, people will keep fighting.

https://www.elevatedaccess.org/

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Barbarism.

That’s what it is. Simple barbarism.

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The US supreme banana court is a terrorist organization.

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I call them the American Mullahs. We all have to follow their pronouncements and there’s fuck all we can do to get rid of them until they die.

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There’s a lot we can do about it, actually. We can expand the court, we can get guillotines, we can disband their institution.

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And when are you planning to lead this revolution? Where and when does the mob gather?

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There’s a lot we can do about it, actually.

I’ll be interested when that is actually being done, and it has an effect.

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There is also a legal construct to impeach them. However, the other branches of the government would have to be capable of doing anything.

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Now I know why we kept Guantanamo Bay around.

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Does it jeopardize the safety of women? Yes? Good, that’s what we wanted.

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