The Woman Who Fought the Texas Abortion Ban - The Daily NYT Podcast

[In It to Win It]

A major case in Texas this week drew attention to the question of who can get exempted from an abortion ban. Most states that have banned the procedure allow for rare exceptions, but while that might seem clear on paper, in practice, it’s far more ambiguous.


Kate Cox, the woman at the center of the case in Texas; and Kate Zernike, a national correspondent for The New York Times, talk about the legal process and its surprising effect.


Guest: Kate Zernike (https://www.nytimes.com/by/kate-zernike) , a national correspondent for The New York Times.


Background reading:

• The Texas Supreme Court is weighing several cases seeking to clarify the limits of medical exceptions (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us...) to the state’s abortion bans.
• But the court’s ruling in Ms. Cox’s case has left doctors still unsure about which cases might pass legal muster (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/us...) .

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-t...) . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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1. How does a rational person...

... not perverted by a diseased interpretation of Christianity, reconcile the unspeakable evil of Ken Paxton and a Texas Supreme Court full of sanctimonious psychopaths who are openly and unapologetically trying to sacrifice the life of a young woman in life-threatening distress, with ANY religious belief system? She has a medically verified fetus that cannot possibly survive, and may very well kill her, but they don’t care! These people have “jumped the shark,” as they say. They are the complete antithesis of everything they purport to represent. They are monsters in the vilest sense of the word who simply cannot abide or allow anyone to defy their bloodthirsty edicts.

Are they going to hire bounty hunters to bring home the heads of any women seeking reproductive care in less totalitarian states? They already encourage Rat Squads to drop a dime on anyone they know that MIGHT be considering pregnancy termination. There's even a $10K reward for destroying your neighbor's life! Nice bunch of people.

This is on YOU, Texas. YOU voted for these malevolent swine, and it’s up to YOU to deal with them, or history will deal with you most harshly.

THIS is why our forefathers were so insistent on the separation of church and state. For them, the Salem witch trials were not the distant memories they are for us. Basing secular law on some power-mad sociopath's interpretation of Scripture has ALWAYS ended in disaster. Even Cotton Mather would have found Ken Paxton to be an utterly repulsive excuse for a human being.