The warning signs are there, the climate people are coming for your air conditioning next. Oh, and of course, it's de rigueur that air conditioning is at its heart... racist.

https://www.vox.com/22638093/air-conditioning-worsens-climate-change-ac?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

For the past few hours the Texas anti-late-term abortion law is in effect, effectively inhibiting abortion after there's a fetal heartbeat (at 16 weeks). Opposition groups have filed emergency appeals, so we'll see what Scotus says pretty soon about whether or not they will stay implementation.

The really interesting part about this law is WHY it has stood so far where others have fallen. Rather than making a government agency responsible for enforcement (which then gets sued to oblivion by interest groups) the law allows concerned parties to sue the providers individually, and for at least $10,000 per abortion. This stymied the opposition a bit as there's no one to sue at this time, as no abortions are being performed under the law yet.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-law-banning-most-abortions-takes-effect

 

This isn't going to end well. Biological reality and "gender identity" are separate things, and medicine deals primarly with the former. I'm amazed that Biden is so keen to grab his hammer and try and beat the two together, but there is now one more expensive problem for the country coming down the road.

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On August 26, two organizations of medical doctors and an obstetrician/gynecologist filed a lawsuit in federal court over a mandate from President Biden and HHS that will force doctors to perform gender-transition procedures, even on children.

The administration’s excuse for this mandate is Obamacare, but that 1,000-page statute does not include a gender-identity-procedure mandate. Instead, it simply prohibits sex discrimination, as Congress understood that term when it enacted civil-rights laws half a century ago.

Yet on January 20, President Biden ordered his federal agencies to go far beyond the law and reinterpret sex discrimination to include “gender identity” discrimination. President Obama had done the same for Obamacare and had admitted he was requiring doctors to give hormones to and perform gender-transition surgeries on patients who demand them. In 2016 a federal court blocked President Obama’s version of the mandate, and under his successor, Donald Trump, HHS said it agreed with the decision. But courts in New York and D.C. issued orders seeming to restore the Obama rule, and in May 2021, with Trump gone, the Biden administration told the world it will force doctors to perform these procedures anyway — and will even force them to deny biological reality in their speech."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-freedom-for-physicians/ar-AANYwn6?li=BBnb7Kz

 

A month and a half is 16 weeks, everyone knows that. Eh, yeah, I must have made a wee bit of a typo there. 6 weeks it is. Also, I'm not sure I buy that "women don't know they are pregnant" line. Speaking hypothetically here, if you go out some night and go home with some guy and then miss your next period and it never occurs to you something might have happened? IMO that's a pretty strange woman. I think that would be the FIRST thing I'd be worried about, and home pregnancy tests are cheap and anonymous.

And you don't have to go back to the Nazis for an example of a government asking its citizens to turn each other in. De Blasio in NYC was asking people to turn in their fellow citizens for not following covid guidelines *last year*. I guess there's nothing wrong with that though, because -Dem.

 

LOL, I thought this was an article about an actual neurosurgeon getting wrongfully accused in Hawaii because some nurse can't spell, but no, just some nut who thinks it's wiser to pay someone for a fake vaccine card than it would be to actually get a potentially lifesaving vaccine.

As another LOL, I can remember years ago some guy getting arrested at the pharmacist's for trying to fill a prescription for one *pound* of "Mophene". The REALLY funny part? The pharmacist actually called the MD to make sure they didn't write it that way!

 

Or, a woman who would want an abortion and is NOT on contraceptives, but is frequently sexually active could always just take a pregnancy test each month. I know that's an overwhelming burden to ask of women, but hey, women have been astronauts in outer space, are Supreme Court judges, the vice president of the United States, physicians, construction workers, working single parents.... I'll bet with a little effort and knowing the stakes women can manage to do this.

I'd say the State asking people to turn each other in for money is bad regardless.

 

If your brother raped your daughter your brother would hopefully get shot, or failing that, arrested. There IS an exception for a "medical emergency" in the law, and I'd bet that an 11 year old rape victim would be found to have some medical emergency or other, regardless of when they showed up. By bringing up an 11 year old rape victim I think you are deliberately missing the point, which is that the vast majority of abortions are NOT rapes of 11 year olds, they are elective abortions from adult women who often have multiple abortions.

And remember, this law gives you the right to use your own money to sue someone, it does NOT give you the right to automatically win that suit. If you sue an Uber driver and they say, "I didn't know nuthin about no abortion, I just drove them to the hospital" do you really think a jury would find them guilty? I don't. And then the person suing would be out the legal and court costs, etc. I'd bet there'll be a few high profile cases, especially at first, but I doubt if it'll turn in to everyone suing everyone.

 

Yep, those are the "high profile" cases I was talking about.

 

My understanding is that it's not a "six weeks" bill, it's a "when the "heartbeat" is detected" bill. If the patient goes in at 6 *months* and the abortion provider doesn't detect a heartbeat? The abortion isn't a proscribed abortion. And do I think the same organization that under the table sells fetal body parts will develop poor hearing in Texas? Yes, I do.

And I disagree that the women who can't afford to have another child will be the ones to suffer. The ones to suffer will be the ones of any income level that are irresponsible about their sexual activities. A lot of cities give out the "morning after" pill for *free*! In most others there are low or at cost services. If someone is unwilling to make use of them, whose fault is that? Maybe what we should do is go back to teaching young people about responsibility and not "do whatever you want, whenever you want" and there won't be as many irresponsible people out there.

 

The Supreme Court voted to deny an emergency appeal to implementing Texas' abortion-limiting law. It's the law -- for now.

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WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, for now stripping most women of the right to an abortion in the nation’s second-largest state.

The court voted 5-4 to deny an emergency appeal from abortion providers and others that sought to block enforcement of the law that went into effect Wednesday. But the justices also suggested that their order likely isn't the last word on whether the law can stand because other challenges to it can still be brought.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-votes-5-4-to-leave-texas-abortion-law-in-place