The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Kate Cox did not qualify for an abortion under the medical exception to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Just hours prior, Cox’s lawyers said she’d traveled out of state to have the procedure.
www.texastribune.org
“No one disputes that Ms. Cox’s pregnancy has been extremely complicated. Any parents would be devastated to learn of their unborn child’s trisomy 18 diagnosis,” the justices wrote. “Some difficulties in pregnancy, however, even serious ones, do not pose the heightened risks to the mother the exception encompasses.”
In Monday’s ruling, the justices say the law does not “ask the doctor to wait until the mother is within an inch of death or her bodily impairment is fully manifest or practically irreversible. The exception does not mandate that a doctor in a true emergency await consultation with other doctors who may not be available. Rather, the exception is predicated on a doctor’s acting within the zone of reasonable medical judgment, which is what doctors do every day.”
The ruling also called on the Texas Medical Board to offer more guidance to physicians, reminding the agency that it can “assess various hypothetical circumstances, provide best practices, identify red lines, and the like” as it has done for COVID-19 protocols and similar circumstances."
So basically Doctor's should "act within the zone of reasonable medical judgment", but when that judgment is for a woman with a terminal pregnancy, that risks her future fertility and/or her life, and makes her fetus suffer either in the womb or out of it, it "does not pose the heightened risks to the mother the exception encompasses"? Can this get anymore fucking confusing/backwards? Why not just come out and say "We trust doctors only we don't trust doctors"; at least it'd be more intellectually honest.
And for those who have no clue:
www.health.state.mn.us
Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18) is a genetic condition where three cells attach to chromosome 18, causing growth delays that can be life-threatening.
my.clevelandclinic.org
Trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome, is a chromosome disorder that often results in stillbirth or the early death of an infant.
www.webmd.com
Given the prognosis of the doctor, the fetus likely has the most severe case.
This isn't a case of she couldn't keep her legs closed, or abortion for prevention, this fetus WAS wanted until this situation happened, and with the complications arising from the pregnancy, the suggestion was to terminate. That Kate was getting sick is NOT a good sign that this is a healthy pregnancy and even an idiot can understand that much.
So not only is anyone who supports this ruling and Texas' interference with this woman a vile, disgusting human being, they are for the torture - mentally, emotionally and physically - of both mother and that unborn that they claim to be oh so needing protection, and the family overall.
This isn't about giving a shit about an unborn baby, this is about controlling women. Period. And that's ALL this ever was about. Because somehow, women suffering gets the jollies of certain people going. Sure, all pregnancies are a risk, but when that risk fucks with the life of one or both involved, then the woman should have the fucking choice to mitigate further risks.
I think now we can legitimately say - those who support this decision are the murderers, they ARE torturers and the only one's going to hell - if you believe in it - are these monsters.
I only hope the friends I have in Texas, who sadly have daughters, get the fuck out before those girls are old enough to want families of their own.
In regards to the interview Kate Cox gave: "If you can watch that and think that a bunch of politicians have the right to tell this woman what her medical decision should be, I'm sorry but you can fuck all the way off."
Exactly.