Attorney General Ken Paxton Responds to Travis County TRO (allowing a woman to obtain an abortion in Texas)

[In It to Win It]

Steve Vladeck
@steve_vladeck

Those defending ambiguous medical exceptions in abortion bans regularly suggest that the problem is not the ambiguities, but doctors narrowly construing them.

And yet, here’s Texas AG Ken Paxton threatening doctors with civil and criminal liability for FOLLOWING A COURT ORDER.

It’s almost like doctors are genuinely—and reasonably—worried about civil and criminal liability for good faith exercises of their best medical judgment that might end up falling on the wrong side of the ambiguous lines that these state abortion bans draw…

Texas Attorney General
@TXAG

Attorney General Ken Paxton Responds to Travis County TRO:

Link to tweet

[keithbvadu2]

1. Republican translation::: you women should know your place.

[SheilaAnn]

2. Completely outrageous. Do it in the Doctor's office if possible, no hospitals involved. n/t

[RussBLib]

3. We must vote out this thug

Can't stand that smirking bastard.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/

[Trueblue1968]

33. Lock him up !!!!!!!!!!!

[brer cat]

4. Ken Paxton recognizes no higher power. He is the judge of all.

[TSExile]

5. What an arrogant creep.

According to the Grand Old Patriarchy, females are nothing more than breeder cows who need to be regulated...and not be uppity.

[madinmaryland]

6. Paxton, respectfully, needs to go fuck himself every hour on the hour from sunrise to sunset for eternity.

🤬🤬

[Paladin]

7. Paxton manages to make a horrific situation even worse.

What a vile, evil man.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Paxton is an asshole

[lostnfound]

9. Wasting the time of people at those hospitals..

Is another crime against humanity.
What an ass.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. The world would have been measurably better had he been aborted.

This raises my anger level to eleven!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Does this POS have a wife or daughters of child bearing age?

Where is the karma for this pig?

[oldsoftie]

22. I wondered the same thing. And hoped for something I shouldn't.

[maxrandb]

28. My hope is that he develops a Teratoma Tumor on his genitals

that registers a "heartbeat" under ultrasound.

[ancianita]

29. Three daughters, one son. Only one daughter has a child, I think.

I'd post a photo of the family, but I hate to even look at him.
His wife is no better. They're both pretty pharisaic christian, imo; by that I mean fake christian.

[gratuitous]

12. Use best medical practices, risk your license and your liberty

In Texas, legislators and public officials are the final health care decision-makers for women. Trained medical professionals need not concern themselves with best practices, standard of care, or necessary treatment. And women sure as hell aren't to be trusted with such decision.

There really isn't a discussion about this anymore, is there? One party trusts people to make their own choices; the other plainly does not. Fancy-pants doctors and their so-called "education" (which probably involves using books whose contents would cause Miss McGillicuddy to faint right in front of the Antioch Baptist Children's Sunday School) clearly don't take sufficient account of the possibility that God will miracle that baby right out of danger.

[KatyaR]

13. I want this POS asshole to have to stand there

in that delivery room and watch what happens when a dead or almost dead baby is born and what happens to the mother during and afterwards. There needs to be an armed guard at the door to make sure he doesn't leave until the damage is done.

[GiqueCee]

14. It's a shame...

... Paxton's momma didn't pull the plug on his sorry ass. If there was a decent part of him, it ran down her leg. What an unspeakably vile excuse for a human being; he is a textbook psychopath.

[JoseBalow]

15. Is this really what the people of Texas want?

This is appalling

[TwilightZone]

17. He's a Republican

For a slight majority of Texans (53%, in his case), that's all that's required. Win the primary and you're in.

[JoseBalow]

25. I wonder how many of those 53% want this

[dlk]

16. Paxton is a woman-hater on steroids

He has zero regard for this woman’s life.
If Paxton joined the Taliban, he’d fit right in.

[Bev54]

18. Seriously time to get Abortions out of the legal system and into the medical system

where they belong. It should never be up to a politician or a judge but up to the woman and her doctor. If the doctor doesn't believe in it then refer her on to another who will perform the abortion. No bloody restraints or ambiguity about anyone's health or medical decisions.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Since when is this Paxton clown and private citizens not subject to court orders?

Paxton is trying to be a court unto himself. He is not a court. He is the state's AG. We still have a judiciary in this country, don't we?

[SimpleMan]

20. It's shit like this...

...that's going to be the catalyst to another blue wave in '24. It's going to be all about abortion rights and wannabe dictators.

[surfered]

21. Ken Paxton...

Filed the suit to overturn Biden’s election, was impeached by the Texas House for corruption, but acquitted by the Senate. He was charged with securities fraud in 2015, but mysteriously has still not faced trial.

He’s one of the worse things to happen in Texas in the state’s history.

[Stainless]

23. Ken Paxton's Mother should have had an abortion

He is a truly evil person.

[moonshinegnomie]

24. His letter should be used to overturn the law

Since it’s clear that there is confusyovrrvthe law and the state is feeding that confusion a court should throw the law out.

[DemocraticPatriot]

26. I must "self-censor" on this.....

My thoughts on Ken Paxton would probably violate site rules.....

[TSExile]

27. Same here.

You should have seen me after his "outlawing rape" comment. I nearly went all Incredible Hulk!!!

[Hekate]

30. May he and his cohort in the SCOTUS end up sharing a hot tub in the Hell they believe in

Seriously — they believe in Hell — let them go there.

[jmowreader]

31. You do of course understand...

...that this kind of unbridled abuse of power led directly to the French Revolution.

I suspect that no guillotines will be built in the State of Texas.

I also suspect this kind of abuse of power will turn Texas very blue very quickly.

[Demovictory9]

32. May the blue wave continue