‘Roe v Wade is a husk’: anguish and anger in Texas after abortion ruling
EDITORIAL:
Notice in this article about abortion, that the abortion clinic operators refer to themselves as INVOLUNTARY “agents of the state” because they are enforcing the Texas Ban on Abortion against their will. Thus, those who act as enforcers under what the U.S. Supreme Court calls “The State Action Doctrine” are “agents of the state”. PUBLIC OFFICERS!
Notice also that all the protesters in the photo are FAT, unattractive, morally VILE women who could never attract a REAL man, and who have to turn to lesbianism to find any sexual fulfillment at all. Useful idiots for socialist elite. It pisses them off to see the good looking ones behind trump at rallies.
One of our members had a woman friend in the freedom movement years ago. Supposedly went thru law school but never took the bar. She used to fight for men’s rights to their children. She said a lot of dykes end up in custody courts because they hate men and love the power to exact revenge. Some of her filings were brutal upon the dykes in robes. She’d call them out and expose them for prejudice. Last I heard they tried to take her children from her but she swore nearly all female judges were dykes placed there to do great damage to men and make government protector of women only.
Roly Poly, Daddy’s little fattie.
Its probably a good thing these people believe in abortion. Who would want more jabba the huts in this world? We need a law that PROMOTES abortion for democrats and prohibits it for republicans. That way the democrat party will genetically self-destruct.
The next pro abortion rally I should walk in the marching crowd with a sign that says:
“I support abortion of all future democrats. End the democrat party by promoting abortion so it self-destructs. “
Think of all the unborn democrats who were aborted. The progressives did us a favor. Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood who administers most abortions, took the SAME position!
For an entire website dedicated to describing useful idiots who did the gene pool a favor by committing suicide through their own stupidity, see:
http://darwinawards.com
Speaking of fat lesbians, when the ancient powers, all males, had to deal with a woman who did not know when to shut-up, the male ruler banished them to the island of Lesbos. Yep. That’s the root word for lesbian. Soon, the island had lots of unattached women who began having sex with each other. And it probably was only a matter of time before the bull shit, left wing feminist theology crap was born.
The justification of progressives that abortion saves the child of suffering and so to the state of a burden is what we call “progressive chauvinism”.(supremacy) It’s the same ELITISM that they use to justify mask-vaccine orders. Most progressives subscribe to some liberal school indoctrination that teaches cleverly in subtle ways that the educational system is superior while portraying that it’s the openness of such a system that it is not. It leads to people who are the real SUPREMACISTS, which is coincidentally why they accuse others of same so readily as it’s always on their mind.
Some people believe that abortion is a big benefit to advancing civilization, as it eliminates unwanted children and their negative effect on society and families, and it improves the gene pool. They far prefer sterilization of the stupid, welfare recipients, and the unmarried fecund. We are not among those people but we can understand their position.
The Urantia Book promotes gene pool control, eugenics.
52:2.12 It is neither tenderness nor altruism to bestow futile sympathy upon degenerated human beings, unsalvable abnormal and inferior mortals. There exist on even the most normal of the evolutionary worlds sufficient differences between individuals and between numerous social groups to provide for the full exercise of all those noble traits of altruistic sentiment and unselfish mortal ministry without perpetuating the socially unfit and the morally degenerate strains of evolving humanity. There is abundant opportunity for the exercise of tolerance and the function of altruism in behalf of those unfortunate and needy individuals who have not irretrievably lost their moral heritage and forever destroyed their spiritual birthright.
52:3.4 This age usually witnesses the completion of the elimination of the unfit and the still further purification of the racial strains; on normal worlds the defective bestial tendencies are very nearly eliminated from the reproducing stocks of the realm.
2:2.12 It is neither tenderness nor altruism to bestow futile sympathy upon degenerated human beings, unsalvable abnormal and inferior mortals. There exist on even the most normal of the evolutionary worlds sufficient differences between individuals and between numerous social groups to provide for the full exercise of all those noble traits of altruistic sentiment and unselfish mortal ministry without perpetuating the socially unfit and the morally degenerate strains of evolving humanity. There is abundant opportunity for the exercise of tolerance and the function of altruism in behalf of those unfortunate and needy individuals who have not irretrievably lost their moral heritage and forever destroyed their spiritual birthright.
52:3.4 This age usually witnesses the completion of the elimination of the unfit and the still further purification of the racial strains; on normal worlds the defective bestial tendencies are very nearly eliminated from the reproducing stocks of the realm.
80:5.6 When the tribal council of the Andite elders had adjudged an inferior captive to be unfit, he was, by elaborate ceremony, committed to the shaman priests, who escorted him to the river and administered the rites of initiation to the “happy hunting grounds” — lethal submergence. In this way the white invaders of Europe exterminated all peoples encountered who were not quickly absorbed into their own ranks, and thus did the blue man come to an end — and quickly.
156:5.2 It was during this same sermon that Jesus made use of his first and only parable having to do with his own trade — carpentry. In the course of his admonition to “Build well the foundations for the growth of a noble character of spiritual endowments,” he said: “In order to yield the fruits of the spirit, you must be born of the spirit. You must be taught by the spirit and be led by the spirit if you would live the spirit-filled life among your fellows. But do not make the mistake of the foolish carpenter who wastes valuable time squaring, measuring, and smoothing his worm-eaten and inwardly rotting timber and then, when he has thus bestowed all of his labor upon the unsound beam, must reject it as unfit to enter into the foundations of the building which he would construct to withstand the assaults of time and storm. Let every man make sure that the intellectual and moral foundations of character are such as will adequately support the superstructure of the enlarging and ennobling spiritual nature, which is thus to transform the mortal mind and then, in association with that re-created mind, is to achieve the evolvement of the soul of immortal destiny. Your spirit nature — the jointly created soul — is a living growth, but the mind and morals of the individual are the soil from which these higher manifestations of human development and divine destiny must spring. The soil of the evolving soul is human and material, but the destiny of this combined creature of mind and spirit is spiritual and divine.”
[Urantia book; http://urantia.org]
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Anti-abortion bounty hunters began calling Amy Hagstrom Miller’s chain of four independent abortion clinics in Texas just hours after the supreme court issued a two-paragraph order that effectively ended access to 85% of abortion services in the state.
Their apparent hope is to make an appointment for an illegal abortion, catch out the clinic and sue for a $10,000 reward, the bounty Texas lawmakers have placed on the heads of anyone – from cab drivers to clergy – who dare aid a woman in obtaining an abortion past six weeks gestation, before most know they are pregnant.
For clinic workers, as well as so many other people, a climate of fear has now descended on Texas. “The staff are directly experiencing people’s anguish and fear and anger about the law that’s coming from all the patients,” said Hagstrom Miller, founder and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health. “It’s been really, really rough.”
Before the stunning order, women nationally in the US had a constitutional right to abortion until the point a fetus can survive outside the womb, generally understood to be 24 weeks. The right was secured by the landmark 1973 supreme court case Roe v Wade.
Congress never secured the right in statute, and relied on a supreme court precedent for nearly five decades. Social conservatives took a different tack, and over the same period passed more than 1,300 abortion restrictions, challenging Roe again and again and again.
Then, on Wednesday, conservatives were granted an extraordinary victory. The court refused to block one of their patently unconstitutional laws. As quickly as a court decision had granted a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, it excised Texas women from its protections and allowed a six-week abortion ban to be imposed on 6 million women of reproductive age as the case winds through courts, ending access to abortion for most pregnant people in the state now and for the foreseeable future.
In handing down the order, the court also laid out a roadmap for severe restrictions in dozens of states hostile to abortion rights, almost certainly emboldened anti-abortion extremists globally and broke with a decades-long global movement to liberalize abortion laws.
Crucially, it also revealed one of Donald Trump’s greatest successes – confirming three supreme court justices on a bench of nine and more than 200 federal court judges. Now, the decades-long rightwing project to appoint conservative jurists appears to have one of its greatest prizes nearly in its reach – the end of abortion in America and the gutting of Roe v Wade.
“Roe v Wade is a husk, a desiccated dry husk of a ruling at this point,” said Anu Kumar, the CEO of Ipas, a US-based reproductive rights organization whose work focuses on helping women internationally obtain access to abortion. “If this Texas law did not trigger the supreme court to intervene, then we all need to be very concerned about what will.”
Since May, a coalition of abortion providers and activists have fought to stop Texas’s law, called SB8, which makes abortion illegal after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected, about six weeks.
But, unlike abortion bans passed by states before, all universally blocked by courts, Texas tried a long-shot legal strategy to evade federal court scrutiny. The state banned officials from enforcing the law, and gave private citizens a right to sue one another should they suspect someone – anyone – helped a woman obtain an abortion past this early point in pregnancy.
A citizen’s prize for a successful suit would be $10,000 and attorneys’ fees. Defendants would not be able to recoup any such losses. Lawmakers also rewrote the rules of civil litigation to favor these new bounty hunters, allowing anyone anywhere to sue. In doing so, legislators tossed into the fire the foundational principles of “standing” (you actually need to be involved to sue) and venue (one of the parties must live or work where the suit is filed).
“It is obvious to anyone who has taken first-year constitutional law that this Texas law is unconstitutional,” said Melissa Murray, the Frederick I and Grace Stokes professor of law at New York University, and an expert on reproductive rights law. “That is an incredibly stunning development in terms of how cases are litigated and how constitutional rights are protected in this country.”
Increasingly frantic attorneys for a coalition of reproductive rights groups worked until the 11th hour to stop the law from going into effect. They were blocked by an appeals court, then petitioned to the supreme court. They were met by 23 hours of supreme court silence after the law went into effect.
That silence from a court known to act swiftly in emergencies was followed by what is called a “shadow docket” decision, in which an order is issued without public argument or trial. In the order, a five-four majority said the court would let the law stand because of “complex antecedent procedural questions” – in other words, the very byzantine enforcement structure the state itself had crafted.
“The court silently acquiesced in a state’s enactment of a law that flouts nearly 50 years of federal precedents,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayer, considered part of the court’s liberal wing.
Even Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative skeptic of abortion rights, joined liberal justices in dissent, arguing the law should be blocked as it winds through courts.
“A law like this upheld in a fashion like this is corrosive of community and of the rule of law and does a disservice to any principle it could possibly hope to vindicate,” said Reva Siegel, the Nicholas deB Katzenbach professor of Law at Yale Law School. Its complex enforcement mechanism was little more than a “fig leaf” for the state, she said.
The state’s largest anti-abortion lobbying organization quickly embraced its new role as enablers of enforcement. The organization has published a website for “whistleblower” investigations, and encouraged citizens to compile dossiers on those suspected of “aiding and abetting” those seeking abortions.
It is obvious to anyone who has taken first-year constitutional law that this Texas law is unconstitutionalMelissa Murray
Hagstrom Miller, whose clinics are high-profile because she has challenged unconstitutional Texas laws in the past, said she is already being targeted. “We can tell the anti-abortion folks are calling, we can tell they’re booking appointments,” she said. “Our staff are on alert and trying to be as warm and comforting of our patients, while also being on watch for these vigilantes – both.”
In the hours preceding the ban, Hagstrom Miller’s staff in Forth Worth worked until midnight the day the ban went into effect to help as many women as possible, performing 67 abortions in 17 hours, according to the news outlet the 19th.
All this comes in the context of upcoming hearings in another abortion case from Mississippi, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the supreme court was slated to consider a 15-week ban on abortion. That case now also appears likely to further strangle the rights provided in Roe v Wade. However, few expected the court to so clearly signal it is “utterly hostile to the prospect of reproductive rights”, in Murray’s words, so early, and in such a fashion.
“It’s been gut-wrenching for the staff to really be agents of the state and tell people they can no longer have an abortion,” said Hagstrom Miller.
Hagstrom Miller has already turned away every single woman who sought an abortion at her Rio Grande Valley location on the Texas-Mexico border in McAllen. They were all past six weeks gestation.
The decision has immediately opened whole categories of questions.
Most immediately, what will happen to pregnant people seeking abortions in Texas? Most will now simply be unable to travel out of state for abortions, and these people will disproportionately be the poor, people of color and the young. Illegal abortion does not, after all, end abortion. It only ends safe, legal abortion.
What will happen to the abortion clinics of Texas? The longer the law stands, the more will shutter, eroding rights permanently no matter what twists and turns the legal and political fight now takes. How many states will move to follow Texas’s lead? Many, perhaps half of US states. Lawmakers in Florida have already signaled their intent to do so.
It’s been gut-wrenching for the staff to really be agents of the state and tell people they can no longer have an abortionAmy Hagstrom Miller
Will Congress amend its nearly five-decade failure to enshrine the right to abortion in law? And where does this new law place the US, which holds itself up as the beacon of freedom, in the global landscape? With this policy, the US joins Brazil, Egypt, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iraq and Mauritania, according to Kumar, and clearly violates international human rights frameworks.
What is clear is while there is much shock, there is less surprise. The Texas court decision was the obvious end of a nearly five decade-long campaign waged by social conservatives to end the right to abortion in the US – a campaign at which they have been succeeding, particularly in the last decade.
This is the “new Texas”, as Hagstrom Miller said, a state the conservative movement has chosen as a proving ground for restrictions on both voting and reproductive rights, both of which are emblematic of the post-Trump conservative movement’s rejection of broader democratic principles.
“Vigilantism is the key in this law, this is why this is so incredibly scary,” said Kumar. “And so close to fascism.”