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Posted By: Dreadnought, 12/11/2023 3:38:34 PM

A Texas woman who sued the state to get an abortion for her high-risk pregnancy has left the state to have the procedure, her lawyers have said. Kate Cox, 31, sought an abortion after her foetus was diagnosed with trisomy 18, a potentially fatal condition that doctors said threatened her fertility. A lower court granted permission for an abortion, but the Texas Supreme Court put that decision on hold on Friday. Texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Abortions in the state are prohibited from the point of conception except in rare cases where the life of the expectant mother is under threat.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: AntiStatist 12/11/2023 3:46:40 PM (No. 1615167)
So the Tenth Amendment works as intended.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 12/11/2023 4:01:05 PM (No. 1615177)
Some idiot doctor diagnosed my daughter with Trisomy 21 (a death sentence) 19 years ago and essentially demanded we abort her. She did not have Trisomy 21. She was a National Merit Scholar, 1520 SAT, very tip-top of her class of over 1,000, 6A state track star, turned down the Air Force Academy (and several other top schools), on the prom court, and going to the hardest school to get into south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 12/11/2023 4:01:52 PM (No. 1615178)
While Trisomy 18 is a horrible dianosis, and heartbreaking for her and her family, I'm suspicious she was "making a statement" about Texas laws. She could have gone out of state for an abortion in the first place, and once she decided to go that route, sooner rather than later. Going to court just caused a delay. While I'm no doctor, there's nothing in Wikipedia about Trisomy 18 endangering the life of the mother, just likely fatal to the baby, 95% of whom die before birth. Half of the live births do not survive a week.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: paral04 12/11/2023 4:13:22 PM (No. 1615182)
That was the cheapest route she could have taken. How much did all this fuss cost her?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bpl40 12/11/2023 4:15:31 PM (No. 1615186)
This sort of thing was exactly what the Dobbs decision was all about. Abortion is not banned. You can simply go to another state. Unless you want to use your pregnancy for political signaling.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Birddog 12/11/2023 4:24:47 PM (No. 1615196)
the other BIG case was in ohio, where a 10yo, illegal migrant girl was impregnated by a 25yo "Family Friend"(also illegal), and the national Abortion Machine made a YUUUUGE case out of it, but before any court could hear the details an abortion "Doctor" from indiana swooped her up, out of Ohio, and gave her an immediate abortion. That story triggered 1st a constitutional referendum/special election, then an abortion referendum in ohio.The National Abortion machin spent $10's of $millions on each. What they DON"T mention was...The Indiana abortion doctor botched it, the 10yo ended up having to go back for another surgery, developed sepsis, had to be hospitalized several times, may now be forever infertile. Oh...and her parents are now trying to get the rape charges against the guy who got her pregnant dropped.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: seamusm 12/11/2023 4:39:43 PM (No. 1615204)
There wasn't any risk to the woman apart from that normally or frequently seen with any pregnancy. The risk was to the child who was found in the womb to have a nearly universal fatal condition. This woman made public her own situation into an opportunity to claim abortion is a righteous, moral, act. But I won't criticize the woman for being faced with a horrible, can't win, choice. But nor do I endorse ending the life of someone simply because they were going to die anyway. That is a slippery slope I believe is dangerous as we've already noted happening in Canada.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mc squared 12/11/2023 4:47:06 PM (No. 1615206)
So? Doctors don't make house calls for abortions. You go where they're available.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Catherine 12/11/2023 6:09:15 PM (No. 1615247)
Strong judgemental people. What a woman does with her body is none of our business. It's between her and her doctor. As for the ten year old, how tragic. Poor little thing. She most likely would have had serious issues if she'd carried the baby. People have to make decisions not knowing the future. I wish them well.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: udanja99 12/11/2023 6:45:40 PM (No. 1615271)
#9, this particular woman made it everyone’s business by going to court and to the media.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: SALady 12/11/2023 6:51:56 PM (No. 1615274)
This was never about the baby. If it was, as soon as her doctor told her what Texas law is, she would have gone out of state immediately upon receiving the news. This was about trying to make a statement about how "unfair" Texas law is on this subject, and I think it would be very interesting to see who was financing her court costs. Ultimately, Texas won, and this baby's blood will not be spilled on Texas soil. Sadly, this woman, finding herself is a horrible unimaginable situation was used by some pro-abortion group or lawyer to try to make a point. Thank God the point is that Texas has laws, and if you don't like them, you are free to go to another state that allows abortion and kill your baby there. I just hope the one good to come out of this will be to let the abortion activists know that the courts will always back Texas law, so don't waste your time and money to do a PR stunt on what is the most tragic thing that can happen to a pregnant woman and her baby.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Birddog 12/11/2023 7:45:39 PM (No. 1615313)
It is "Interesting" that many claim the Constitution confers a right to abortion, though the word appears nowhere in it, but the Hippocratic Oath that every Physician swears to specifically FORBIDS it.. yet many doctors and every abortion advocate ignores it, or claim that "That is not what it means"
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Reply 13 - Posted by: MickTurn 12/11/2023 8:34:42 PM (No. 1615350)
If you don't like Texas, LEAVE and DO NOT COME BACK!
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