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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts) Fri Oct 3, 2014, 06:25 PM Oct 2014

Tough Texas abortion law may head to Supreme Court

EL PASO, Texas — Abortion-rights lawyers are predicting "a showdown" at the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appellate judges allowed full implementation of a law that has closed more than 80 percent of Texas' abortion clinics.

As of Friday, abortion services for many Texas women required a round trip of more than 200 miles — or a border-crossing into Mexico or New Mexico.

Operators of some of the affected clinics and their lawyers from the Center for Reproductive Rights vowed to appeal Thursday's decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans that allows Texas to fully enforce a sweeping abortion law approved by the Republican-controlled legislature last year. They depicted the law — and similar measures proposed in other states — as an unacceptable infringement of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion.

"This case is ultimately going to end up with the Supreme Court," said the reproductive rights center's president, Nancy Northup. "It is going to be a showdown ... on whether the promise of Roe will have meaning in the United States."

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/top-news/tough-texas-abortion-law-may-head-to-supreme-court/nhbmf/

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Tough Texas abortion law may head to Supreme Court (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2014 OP

how many lives will it have destroyed in the meantime? niyad Oct 2014 #1

SCOTUS will make the subjugation of women official. nt valerief Oct 2014 #2

They will never touch it Deny and Shred Oct 2014 #3

I hope that the SCOTUS take this case Gothmog Oct 2014 #4

I hate these men of the SCOTUS. TxDemChem Oct 2014 #5

niyad

(113,364 posts)

1. how many lives will it have destroyed in the meantime?

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Fri Oct 3, 2014, 06:29 PM

Oct 2014

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. SCOTUS will make the subjugation of women official. nt

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Fri Oct 3, 2014, 06:29 PM

Oct 2014

Deny and Shred

(1,061 posts)

3. They will never touch it

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 06:51 PM

Oct 2014

This is the Republican Golden Goose of wedge issues. The five on the SCOTUS, no matter how much they'd like to pontificate on the issue (well, not C Thomas) will be duly informed by their handlers that Republicans can kiss many an election goodbye without the "I'm Pro-Life and I Vote" crowd.

Any of the wedge issues that comprisse the cobbled-together patchwork that somehow still garners election victories for them must be left as is. Without the wedge issues, a significant number of peolpe will have something else to consider next time around, and the Republicans can't risk that.

Gothmog

(145,321 posts)

4. I hope that the SCOTUS take this case

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Fri Oct 3, 2014, 07:36 PM

Oct 2014

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)

5. I hate these men of the SCOTUS.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2014, 11:48 PM

Oct 2014

I used to have a little faith in the court system, but it's all gone now. I hope they have a bunch of nuttery right-wing cases that will force them to reverse some of their recent decisions (especially the hobby lobby case), but I won't hold my breath.

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