Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case on Texas Anti-Abortion Law

[niyad]

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case on Texas Anti-Abortion Law

The Supreme Court announced today that it will review an anti-abortion Texas law that threatens to close more than 75 percent of abortion clinics in the state and deny millions of women access to safe, legal abortion.



“Today, my heart is filled with hope,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, Founder and President of Whole Woman’s Health, the lead plaintiff in the case. “Although this is the first step in a much longer process, I am hopeful that the Supreme Court will uphold the rights that have been in place for four decades and reaffirm that every woman should be able to make her own decision about continuing or ending a pregnancy. I have hope,” Hagstrom Miller continued, “for my staff members, who, for years, have poured themselves into providing Texas women with high-quality and comprehensive reproductive health care. And most of all, I have hope for the families and communities all across Texas who now may be able to get the safe and comprehensive care they need from a clinic they trust.”

Last week at its Women Money Power Summit, the Feminist Majority and the Feminist Majority Foundation, honored Hagstrom Miller with a Courage Award. “We are thrilled that the Supreme Court has decided to review this politically-motivated law, whose goal is to end abortion access and all but overturn Roe v. Wade,” said Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal. “Laws designed to force the closure of women’s reproductive health clinics are not only discriminatory, they are dangerous for women. The Supreme Court should expose the Texas law, and all those like it, for what they are – an end run around Roe – and reaffirm the constitutional right of millions of women to access safe, legal abortion.”

The Supreme Court will likely hear the case Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole in 2016. The case challenges two provisions of Texas’ omnibus abortion law, known as HB2. The first provision, which has already forced more than half of the clinics in the state to close, requires providers to secure hospital admitting privileges. The second provision forces clinics to fulfill costly, medically unnecessary ambulatory surgical center (ASC) requirements.

Both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have spoken out against both the ASC and admitting privileges requirements as medically unnecessary. Without any medical justification, all these laws seek to do is make it increasingly difficult—or even impossible—for a woman to get an abortion.

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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/11/13/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-case-on-texas-anti-abortion-law/

[Kath1]

1. I am hoping for the best for Texas women.

WTF? Isn't this 2015, not 1915? Isn't Roe v. Wade federal law?

We need to push hard so that every woman who wants an abortion can have one.

[niyad]

3. you would think we are back in the dark ages, and that is certainly where these woman-hating

assholes want us.

[Kath1]

4. And you are absolutely and 100% right about that!

[Gothmog]

2. The SCOTUS stayed this law in an earlier ruling

The Texas TRAP law is horrible and I hope the SCOTUS rules against it

[randys1]

5. This is WITHOUT a con in the WH installing Woman killing justices.

If you think it is bad now, well.

[niyad]

7. well, we have five of them on the court right now.

[randys1]

8. I hope the reason this topic only has a few responding is it is in this obscure forum, is it

being discussed in GD?

Obscure as opposed to the traffic in GD

Do people understand this?

If they did I would hope MILLIONS of us would be SCREAMING our heads off.

The ONLY reason to take the fucking case is to uphold these ILLEGAL laws that VIOLATE Women's constitutional rights.

[niyad]

9. this was posted in gd, but, like many posts about women's issues, sank like a stone.

[randys1]

10. if you have the link to that thread please provide, if not i can find it

thanks

[niyad]

11. sorry, meant to link it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027344697

[randys1]

12. I just posted a wake up, i will try and remember to go back and bump it often

The beauty of it is we are POWERLESS

if those fucks decide to do this, it is done

ALL we can do is change it by putting ADULTS on the court

[niyad]

13. that would be wonderful, would it not? an entire scotus of rational adults.

[randys1]

14. Let's you and me work together on this, we need to remind them often of this case

and how the Prez election can result in more of this if ANY con is elected

[niyad]

15. happy to do so.

[niyad]

6. . . .