As Death Rate Surges, Texas Asks Supreme Court to Let It Keep Denying Care to Pregnant Women

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-texas-deny-emergency-abortion-pregnant-1235112045/

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THE STATE OF Texas is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue denying emergency medical care to pregnant women, pretty please. The request, which the justices will consider at conference on Monday, September 30, comes on the heels of a new report that shows the state’s maternal mortality rate has spiked dramatically since the state’s first ban on abortion went into effect in 2021.

Across the United States, maternal mortality rose 11 percent between 2019 to 2022; in Texas, over the same period, the maternal death rate surged 56 percent, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data conducted by the Gender Equity Policy Institute.

“There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality,” Nancy L. Cohen, the institute’s president, told NBC News. “All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”

Five weeks before an election that could hinge on outrage over abortion restrictions, officials in Texas are nevertheless charging ahead with their effort to ensure that the state can block doctors from providing emergency medical treatment to pregnant residents. The state sued the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that the Biden administration violated the Medicare and Administrative Procedure Acts when it issued guidance clarifying that hospitals are required to provide emergency abortions if necessary to preserve a woman’s health — even in states that, like Texas, ban abortion.

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[Clouds Passing]

1. Texas to USSC6: Please allow us to murder more women

[SheltieLover]

4. Exactly!

[BigMin28]

8. That's Ken Paxton

Evil man, through and through.

[Clouds Passing]

11. Paxton and Scabbott, quite the "Dynamic Duo" of Hades

[BigMin28]

12. Dan Patrick

Can't forget him. As Lt. Govenor, in Texas, he has more power than Scabbott. Love that, by the way.

[Clouds Passing]

16. Looks like Ole Danny Boy is another Christofacist

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lt-gov-dan-patrick-says-christianity-is-needed-more-than-ever-in-texas-politics/ar-BB1mjVlR

[BigMin28]

17. During covid

He said seniors should sacrifice themselves for the economy. Repuke brand of pro life. More like pro greed.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. It's just another form of execution to SCOTUS-6-GOP

We have trial by mass shooting. Execution of innocent prisoners. Death by barbaric maternal non-care.

Oh well, God's will, from men in robes.

[BlueKota]

3. Not just men

ACB is a traitor to her own kind.

[SheltieLover]

5. MAGAt women have ZERO self-respect

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Abbott, Paxton et al are murderers.

They aren't just dead in the head, their hearts are sick, too.

[Girard442]

7. So, while we're doing surveillance, get a DNA sample from every male and keep it on file.

The DNA of every child born will be compared to the database to identfy the biofather. Biodad will be stuck with 21 years of child support if no one else steps up.

It's only fair.

(Check the DNA of fetal remains too, so that biodad can be charged as an accesory to murder.)

[erronis]

9. It's pretty obvious the solution is to get rid of the CDC

or at least ban it from gathering and reporting on these types of numbers.

Just like the (r)epuglicons did for guns.

(Do I need a /sarcasm/ tag?)

[Warpy]

10. Those woman hating sacks of putrefaction can't admit they were wrong about anything

They will pursue this until every woman in Texas has either fled or has been murdered by medical neglect. It will take a while, but I"m sure they'll get there. Texas will be the place where men go to be men, whatever the hell that means, no gurls allowd.

[GenThePerservering]

14. Texas will be the place where men go to be men

...and the cattle are nervous.

[UTUSN]

13. Guessing: tx atty gen PAXTON, criminal hypocritical moralizer leading the lawsuits

[bdamomma]

15. can we hold

them liable for killing/murdering innocent women. This is 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hateful pieces of shit.

[iemanja]

18. Truly horrific

I hope Kamala is taking about this.