After the Texas supreme court lifted the hold on the law banning abortions that a judge had imposed, Cox had a difficult decision to make: wait and if the supreme court would ultimately rule in her favor or leave the state. Since the court gave no gave no time for the decision, they may well have just run out the clock. So she opted to go to another state to have her abortion.
A pregnant Texas woman who was seeking court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. could not wait any longer and went to another state, her attorneys said Monday.
The announcement came as Kate Cox, whose fetus has a fatal condition, was waiting for the Texas Supreme Court to rule whether she could legally receive an abortion. Her baby’s diagnosis has low survival rates and her attorneys said continuing the pregnancy jeopardized both her health and ability to have more children.
“Her health is on the line. She’s been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which was representing Cox.
This likely makes her case moot. Fortunately for Cox, she appears to have the resources to carry out her decision. This still leaves in limbo other pregnant women who need to have an abortion. Meanwhile a pregnant woman in Kentucky, another anti-abortion state, has asked a court to allow an abortion and is awaiting a result.
It still seems incredible and barbarically perverse to me that anyone other than the fetus-carrier and the qualified medical staff engaged in their care have ANY input to this decision.
sonofrojblake, sure.
But then, it probably seems incredible and barbarically perverse to other people that only the fetus-carrier and the qualified medical staff engaged in their care have ANY input to this decision.
You know, the ones who pressed for this law.
(Theory of mind)
The NYT headline states that the Texas supreme court has ruled against her
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/texas-abortion-kate-cox.html
@sonofrojblake @1
You don’t understand (American)Libertarianism.
Here’s a fun thought. Assuming that all of your living and travel expenses were taken care of, how much would you have to be paid to live in Texas? For me, I think it would be at least several hundred thousand dollars per year, and that’s only because I’m an older white guy so a good portion of their draconian BS would not effect me directly. I’d live there for a year and leave. I understand that there are some nice(r) areas in Texas, but I imagine it would be a little like living in a castle during a siege, as you’re surrounded by insanity.
Not that much more than I’d need to be paid to live just about anywhere else in the USA.
@Jimf #5:
Ths short and simple version of how much money I’d want to live in Texas depends on how long I’d have to stay there. For anything longer than a month or two it better put me in the 1% so I could afford some middle-class-living-it-up a bit plus doing some good in the world. For times around a month or less I could settle for enough to buy a house somewhere I actually want to live.
As stated about Republicans in many other contexts, the cruelty is the point.
The ‘other’ -- in this case, the reluctant incubator- do not warrant empathy, or even logical thinking.
jimf, I’m not moving to Texas, or Florida, or a whole list of other states for any price. My family is too queer to survive there. I’m all for people who are willing to move to purple states in order to flip them blue, but only if they can do so safely (probably only older cis-het people).
I had a feeling they trying to run the clock out on her. She checkmated them . Good!
How much would I accept to live in Texasistan . You couldn’t pay me enough!
Why does this remind me of Dune and that planet where women are just brain dead incubators for babies.