Don Moynihan: This is pretty straightforward - you either believe the physicians and women who have been damaged by the law, or a partisan court who says there is no risk, and that everyone who says so is being irrational here.

Learning costs and fear of prosecution (up to 99 years in prison, loss of medical license) are a primary means by which laws that nominally protect the health of pregnant women become de facto abortion bans. andhttps://donmoynihan.substack.com/publish/post/144078080

The Texas Supreme Court considered the stories of women who were denied abortions under wrenching circumstances--who were going into septic shock, or whose babies had fatal diagnoses--and decided that the Texas abortion ban is just fine the way it is.

Texas Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on Exceptions to Abortion Banwww.nytimes.com The court on Friday unanimously reversed a ruling that had expanded the definition of what counts as a medical emergency under the state’s strict abortion ban.

Gendered Burdensdonmoynihan.substack.com The constraints of the post-Dobbs era are part of a broader pattern

This is pretty straightforward - you either believe the physicians and women who have been damaged by the law, or a partisan court who says there is no risk, and that everyone who says so is being irrational here.

like this is the thing that settles the abortion debate for me beyond all other arguments about morality and religion and medicine “do you trust a woman and her doctor to make a decision about an abortion, or do you trust a right wing prosecutor and judge who think ectopic pregnancies are viable”

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