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Federal judge blocks enforcement of Texas abortion law, says restrictions are unconstitutional - @becca_aa, @jgrovum
District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote Monday that the regulations violated the rights of abortion doctors to do what they think is best for their patients and would unreasonably restrict a woman's access to abortion clinics.
Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers brought the lawsuit, arguing that a requirement that doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic would force the closure of a third of the clinics in Texas. They also complained that requiring doctors to follow the Food and Drug Administration's original label for an abortion-inducing drug would deny women the benefit of recent advances in medical science.
The Texas attorney general's office argued that the law protects women and the life of the fetus. Attorney General Greg Abbott was expected to file an emergency appeal of Yeakel's order to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/texas-abortion-unconstitutional_n_4171087.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Hurray!!!
Edit: oops...redundant. But still great news!!!
dmr
(28,347 posts)Thank you for posting this!
MineralMan
(146,308 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)it's contrary to the will of the people. Two, it's judicial activism. And three, ummm ... ahhh FUCK, I did it again!
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)n/t
Lobo27
(753 posts)Cause I'd hate see someone with a sensible mind, recalled or w/e.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)this one was appointed by GWB.
So not only will he be an activist judge to the conservatives, but a traitor to boot.
Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)Thanks for the thread, BluegrassStateBlues.
ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)And, as an aside---Go you incredible, awesome kickass Texas Democrats!
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Many people working hard down here!!! Many people!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)spanone
(135,832 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Suck it Perry
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)biggest activist Judge in history.
sheshe2
(83,763 posts)The proposed restrictions were among the toughest in the nation and gained notoriety when Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis launched a nearly 13-hour filibuster against them in June. The law also bans abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and beginning in October 2014 requires doctors to perform all abortions in surgical facilities.
Take that Rick Perry. Oh and a note to Cruz about Wendy Davis, take a lesson. That was one hell of a filibuster for the health of the Women of Texas!
Great thread, Bluegrass.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)It didn't have to happen this way, but you asked for it.
No, I am not going to be nice.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Very exciting to see a real legal scholar do the right thing!!!
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)They are Women's Health Clinics.
I hate when we use Rethuglican terminology. It's like they win when we use their vocabularly to describe things that are important to us that they want to destroy.
ObamaCare is the ACA
Entitlement,is Social Care Services And does not include ss or Medicare
and
Abortion Clinics is Women's Health clincs
I hate when the media adopts rightwing vocab as well
TexasTowelie
(112,180 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Cerridwen
(13,258 posts)As in, not separate facilities but part of health care as a whole.
Thank you for posting this.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)Especially since, for the majority of the women who use them, they are only Women's Health clinics.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Bastard is still withholding Extended Medicaid for millions of Texans and trying to limit the amount of money spent on preemie births. A normal delivery costs around $2,500 while a baby with care in NICU runs a bill up to $45,000. Seems Texas Rethugs don't want Medicaid paying for it. Some pro-life. Republicans hate women and children.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)a piece at a time.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)Will they take revenge? I don't know. But accidents happen. I don't want any judges suffering from vigilantism in this country. Several gun owning people I know -- one from Ohio, one from Florida and one from Texas -- have outright claimed that "activist judges" need killing. They're nobodies, but they claim they're networked. I've told them that they're criminal to advocate such things, but they just laugh at me.
0rganism
(23,954 posts)How stacked with dominionists is it?
cali
(114,904 posts)Bunnahabhain
(857 posts)States need to stop passing unconstitutional laws.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)and another one bites the dust.
cali
(114,904 posts)Here's what didn't:
The drug protocol piece which endangers women was challenged but the judge upheld it.
The piece that requires the unnecessary and onerous physical plant requirements to be the same as ambulatory surgical centers wasn't challenged. It goes into effect in 2014 and if not challenged or if challenged and upheld, it will close most TX abortion clinics
the 20 week cutoff date for almost all abortions.
Lots of very bad law still intact.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)I'm also aware of the fact that it will most likely still be appealed to the higher courts.
Stop policing other people's threads. There is a reason ppl choose not to post in yours.
cali
(114,904 posts)and guess what? Not only do lots of people post in threads that I start, but many of those threads get lots and lots of recs and end up on the top of the greatest list.
that must irritate you.
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cali
(114,904 posts)BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)This is huge
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)TBF
(32,060 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)(with a third for actual business at hand), and all that time and money wasted.
Good lord, the Texas GOP ain't worth much.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Not clear on that.
Nonetheless, TEXAS WILL OFFICIALLY BE BLUE IN ONE YEAR FROM NOW!! That is, after they elect Wendy Davis.
Awsome news for women in Texas!!!