"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton began waging a grisly campaign to force Cox to stay pregnant against her will, even though her condition puts her life, her health and her future fertility in limbo. Late last week, at Paxton’s behest, the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court paused the lower court’s ruling, blocking Cox’s ability to access abortion near home with no indication of when it might issue an opinion. On Monday, her legal team at the Center for Reproductive Rights announced that Cox had decided to leave Texas to access abortion elsewhere “due to the ongoing deterioration” of her health. It wasn’t until later that day that the Texas Supreme Court finally ruled that, essentially, Cox’s abortion couldn’t be medically necessary, in part because her doctor had gone to court to confirm that it was medically necessary."
@igd_news Glad to see she is able to get an abortion outside Texas. The fact that she won't submit and give birth to a dead baby is also a huge "fuck you and the car you rode in" to KKKen Paxton.
Only two things are working against abortion laws right now: the pill networks/self-managed abortion, and interstate travel. Criminalization of interstate travel is next, note that Google has ignored their own promise to stop logging trips to abortion clinics with Google Maps enabled, location sharing ON, and logged into Google. Thus the same "geofence warrants" used for J6 could be used by Ken Paxton to say, get a list of all Texas phones that go within X number of yards of any of a list of known out of state clinics. Counter is to log out of Google, turn off location sharing, disable Google Maps, and use ~Osmand (OpenStreetMap frontend) instead. All clinics should make sure OpenStreetMap has their address so they can be easily found there.
Paxton is also on record as supporting bringing a case to SCOTUS to get approval to reinstate sodomy laws. Note that Texas has a prior history with SCOTUS on that one.
Texas has such an extreme-right reputation I once saw a presumably joking call in the Washington Post (maybe it was a letter?) for throwing them out of the Union. Note that doing that would mean the GOP would never again control the White House and probably never the House of Misrepresentatives again.
Of course, an expelled Texas would be an instant Christian State, with things like the death penalty for abortion and Gay sex. CSNA (Christian State in North America) is one of the nightmare scenarios during a breakup of the US similar to the Syrian Civil War.
@LukefromDC@igd_news
I'd rather see states like that busted back to territories, until they learn that the Constitution is serious about rights for women and minorities and non-property-owners.
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