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NEW: The Texas Supreme Court temporarily STAYS the district court's order permitting Kate Cox to get an abortion while it reviews AG Ken Paxton's petition for mandamus and motion for temporarily relief. Background here: www.texastribune.org/2023/12/07/t...

I wanna know how much public money is being spent in the AG's vendetta against a single woman seeking medical treatment

Maybe @andreagrimes.bsky.social knows how much public money is being spent in the Texas AG's vendetta, or knows someone who could find out.

Money means nothing to Paxton, as long as it's not his. Using taxpayer money to fund his vendettas is a big part of what got him impeached. www.tpr.org/texas/2023-0... though unfortunately not convicted.

Legislature has little appetite to fund Ken Paxton’s settlement with whistleblowerswww.tpr.org A lack of lawmaker support jeopardizes the attorney general’s $3.3 million settlement, which would resolve a lawsuit alleging Paxton fired high-ranking deputies who accused him of misconduct.

I'm so livid that I want to describe, in painful detail, just what a baby with trisomy 18 has to look forward to, just so everyone can be as angry as I am right now. But that would be cruel. And I'm just not that mean. I hope there is a special place in hell for Paxton, specifically for him.

I remember from medical school, and it’s brief and awful. One of the many reasons that I knew I couldn’t emotionally handle Obs/Gyn or paediatrics as career choices.

I took care of an infant when I was in nursing school. Brief and awful is right. I, too, could not emotionally handle obs/gyn or pediatrics, either. I work with Elders. I'm happy this way.

Big time. Fuck all of them.

The national and Texas GOP are managing to do what I thought I’d see when hell froze over: turning my erstwhile Catholic antiabortion conservative husband into a self-described libtard.

Waiting for the reveal of "We'll review it in 10 months"

Love the Friday night drop, too

Y’all Qaeda isn’t giving up that easily in Howdy Arabia.

If the Texas Supreme Court and Paxton force Kate Cox to go through this pregnancy they have no idea of the electoral fire they will be igniting. To paraphrase Phil Gramm (that sack of shit), "They'll be hunting Republicans with dogs."

I think you have a better option of the voters of Texas than they have earned.

Sadly not literally.

The irreparable and irremediable harm allowing the abortion would have been? Oh, the woman would have lowered her odds of dying.

Does this mean the Texas Medical Board as well as the Executive Director support Paxton's position? I know the president of the board. He goes pretty well which ever way the political wind blows. I am an MD in Arkansas, with similar laws in place.

Why would it mean that?

From their being mentioned along side Paxton in the stay.

Then let me adjust my question: why wouldn't it mean that?

Because lawyer stuff often does not mean what mere mortals think it does. I was hoping Ken or another lawyer would weigh with an interpretation. I should run it by the two lawyers my family is plagued with. One even is in TX.

Lol, good point

The cruelty is the point.

We need to set up an asylum program for Texans who want to leave.

Agreed. I see anyone who doesn’t vote republican in that crap state as being held hostage by a hostile foreign power

Only after extreme vetting.

I hope Paxton finds some way to discover a pinhole black hole that appears right on his scrotum.

We do not survive this. Our society is crumbling right before our eyes. We need a plan to become insurgents when fascism becomes official. I think we are already there

Whether we like it or not, fascists rely on violence as part of their governance. This is an example of state-sponsored violence. Fascism has arrived not bearing a cross, wrapped in the flag, but more ordinarily. Democratically. They were all elected and re-elected.

You are correct. And you and I are part of the 500000 people in the USA that understand this.

Violence is the lingua franca of fascism.

Yeah that's already occurred to me

I so hope she got the abortion before any of this fuckery started

She surely awaited the decision in a clinic, so it happened minutes after the decision, and didn't wait for others to weigh in? I certainly hope so

I hope so!

F'ing monsters.

This is a Republican party problem and it's national. The party is now under the control of a weird Christo-nationalist cult. Check out the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

So, the Texas Executive Branch decides to run over the Texas Courts, and the Texas Supreme Court backs them up? That's very odd indeed.

Jesus, can someone just give me a site I can donate to let this poor woman go out of state?

I want Ken Paxton to get aggressive ass cancer and shit himself to death on live TV.

Everything's shitter in Texas?

Sorry for ignorance - but how does this stake with the 8th Amendment? Can the government torture you with denying medical care?

Court reporting is why sentence diagramming was invented, I think

I feel sick reading this. Goddess protect that woman.

This is why the rightwing extremists want this stuff in the court system in the first place – not to fairly adjudicate it, but to run out the clock on the female’s ability to choose another direction from the one they demand. It’s using the letter of the law to defeat its spirit.

*through gritted teeth* I hope they have a very nice day. Nice for this poor mother, anyway.

Can we give Texas back to Mexico? I'd be ok with that.

Ken Paxton should be held personally liable for any adverse medical outcomes and all expenses.

Everything's shittier in Texas.

The worst part of this is that the court knows the AG is a lying criminal who belongs in jail.

Texas is a mess

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