Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion

[Della]

Dec 7 (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity.

Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin did not shield doctors from prosecution under all of Texas's abortion laws, and that the woman, Kate Cox, had not shown she qualified for the medical exception to the state's abortion ban.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-jud ... 023-12-07/

[Murdoc's Mistress]

The court ruled she qualified for the medical exception, so not sure why he's claiming otherwise. Not to mention, I imagine the court's ruling extends some level of protection to Cox and her doctors. Paxton can shut his dick holster and accept that he lost and can't force his will onto the Texas people. I wish someone would just make that fucker disappear like Hoffa. Let us find him at the bottom of the lake with cement shoes. He deserves worse.

[Slimshandy]

We need to make some new laws covering this…


For everyone who tries to stop a woman from saving her own life-

If they die, you die too.



Death penalty cases for all judges and AGs who deny a woman the right to make decisions for her own body that lead to her death.

[Francee89]

Less than two weeks ago, in a separate lawsuit led by women who were suffering health problems but couldn’t access abortion in Texas due to the law, the AG’s office said that women shouldn’t be suing the state, they should be suing the doctors who denied them abortions because the law is fine and the doctors were either deliberately or negligently misinterpreting it.

With this statement, Paxton is making it incredibly clear that the law is exactly the problem - doctors and hospitals and other medical personnel have every reason to fear devastating criminal and civil consequences if the state disagrees that the woman meets the legal standard for an “exception”.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/texas/news/ ... rtion-law/

[jessilin0113]

Honestly, it's terrible for women and patients in general, but doctor's and nurses need to start leaving the state. It's happening in Idaho, hospitals have had to stop providing OB services, doctors are leaving, and hospitals and clinics are having a difficult time recruiting new providers because the abortion law is preventing them from proving appropriate care and they don't want to risk their license or get into any legal jeopardy. It's making legislators rethink some things.

[Francee89]

Ken Paxton asks Texas Supreme Court to stop Dallas woman from getting an abortion

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the state Supreme Court to intervene and stop a Dallas woman from having an abortion.

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This is the first time an actively pregnant adult woman has gone to court to get an abortion since before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. A similar case was filed in Kentucky on Friday.

In the petition, Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court to rule quickly, saying that “each hour [the temporary restraining order] remains in place is an hour that Plaintiffs believe themselves free to perform and procure an elective abortion.”

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The central question is whether a lethal fetal anomaly qualifies a pregnant patient for an abortion under the narrow medical exception to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Cox’s lawyers argue that continuing this nonviable pregnancy poses a threat to her life and future fertility, thus necessitating an abortion.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/08 ... en-paxton/

Republicans can claim to be for “restrictions with exceptions”, but exceptions don’t functionally exist if doctors have to treat patients knowing there are legal consequences if or when Ken Paxton or some other creep was to retroactively decide a woman wasn’t close enough to dead or disabled.