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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas women turned away at abortion clinics after court ruling
Women seeking to terminate their pregnancies were turned away at clinics across Texas on Friday, providers said, after strict new regulations for physicians who perform abortions prompted a dozen facilities to stop offering them.
Facilities that continue to perform abortions were flooded with calls from women trying to find alternatives, clinic officials said.
"They're calling from all over - Fort Worth, West Texas, all over Dallas, Oklahoma, everywhere," said Betty Pettigrew, director at Routh Street Women's Clinic in downtown Dallas, which has offered abortion services since 1978.
Offices were inundated with calls after a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that a provision of a new Texas law that requires all doctors performing abortions to have an agreement with a local hospital to admit patients could go into immediate effect.
The provision was part of a sweeping anti-abortion law, passed in July by the Republican-led Texas Legislature, that also requires abortion clinics to meet heightened building standards, bans abortion after 20 weeks and requires strict adherence to federal guidelines in prescribing the so-called abortion pill.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/01/us-usa-abortion-texas-idUSBRE9A013720131101
pitbullgirl1965
(564 posts)It's bad enough when you can get a safe, legal abortion, having to go through this, I can't imagine
ReRe
(10,597 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Janice Rodgers Brown is the Judge on the 5th circuit who overturned the lower court judge's decision blocking parts of the TX law. she's by NO means to only one. Not by a long shot.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)A pox on the women too! What's wrong with 'em? If a man who hates women is a misogynist, what is a woman who hates women? Is she just the fundamentalist type who wants to force her religion on other women? Are they sadists?
Loudly
(2,436 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and it's just reductive and not very bright to to cast people in that light or as obedient to men.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)and their expectations of the female gender.. Or fundamentalists... Hassidics ....etc.
I agree on the Uncle part.. Misogamy is never a simple issue. You sound like it should only be discussed on a
intellectual level.
I suggest you watch last nights episode of Borgen"....Its highly intellectual, well written and raw with truth!
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Gay closeted Republican Politicians who hurt others are freaking shits?
I feel the same about the judge...Im not a racists.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and more of direction maker than taker.
Women and people of color can be shit human beings in their own right.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Part of your vocabulary? Or is it suppose to be impressive?
allan01
(1,950 posts)i hope that theese texans are ready for coat hanger back alley abortions or just pliain abandonment of childeren again. step iback nto the dark ages.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)How is this even remotely legal?! This type of BS simply exemplifies why this country is failing in education and humanity.
cali
(114,904 posts)and throws it back to the states. Just like it will be legal if some states criminalize any form of abortion.
Women in this country are seeing 40 years of rights vanish before their eyes.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)First they come to redistrict you, then they come for abortion rights, schools, Medicaid, anything to fuck up the state.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)whttevrr
(2,345 posts)I am horrified by the consequences that this will bring to the women of Texas. I almost commented on the cartoon earlier, but could not think of a civil response. There is nothing humorous about this issue at all. It is tragic.
If I think about the consequences of a perforated uterus, I get a lump in my throat and truly have to struggle to not weep out loud.
I'm a guy, and I am just devastated by the attack on women's rights that has been going on in this country...
...it's devastating...
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)whttevrr
(2,345 posts)Oh, Bill Clinton made a sexist joke? Fuck him!
What? Fundamental human rights are being denied to women in one of our states? But... Bill made a dick and dog joke...
Fucking people...
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)Why do the Women's Choice post die so quickly?
DLevine
(1,788 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)... to hurt people is a Republican stock in trade, yet they caterwaul about good faith regulations being too cruel to ... profits.
How they can keep anyone registered in a party that revels in passing laws they gleefully admit are not for their stated purpose, but rather to restrict and punish people whose very lives they disapprove of is beyond me.
They lose every one of these social issues centered on demonizing groups of people eventually. They'll lose this one too. The damage they will inflict, seemingly out of pure spite, in the meantime, is appalling.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
ancianita
(35,812 posts)I'd call it stockholm syndrome, as well, even if it's not a DSM VI category. It's an adaptive survival behavior of women living with armed men and alpha men.
I can't tell you how often I've heard gun owners talk about shooting "activist" judges. Women judges are keenly aware of their risks, even when no particular belief drives their judgments.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)Through beating, raping, and gang raping young vulnerable women they turn their world upside down. The men may not understand the DSM VI of it, but they know how to make it work. Some abhorrent dog trainers know the mechanics of it as well. The only danger in this dynamic is letting the victim think they have any choice or way to revolt.
People will behave as they are taught to behave, the ones that don't probably will end up dead.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)whttevrr
(2,345 posts)But we can surely agree that this is sickening.
redqueen
(115,096 posts)idwiyo
(5,113 posts)CFLDem
(2,083 posts)This is another fine example of mysogynist fascist tyrants Republicans making government so small it can fit in a women's uterus.