Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin did not shield doctors from prosecution under all of Texas’s abortion laws, and that the woman, Kate Cox, had not shown she qualified for the medical exception to the state’s abortion ban.
Paxton said in a statement accompanying the letter that Guerra Gamble’s order “will not insulate hospitals, doctors, or anyone else, from civil and criminal liability for violating Texas’ abortion laws.”
The letter was sent to three hospitals where Damla Karsan, the doctor who said she would provide the abortion to Cox, has admitting privileges.
“Fearmongering has been Ken Paxton’s main tactic in enforcing these abortion bans,” Marc Hearron, senior counsel at Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents Cox, said in a statement. “He is trying to bulldoze the legal system to make sure Kate and pregnant women like her continue to suffer.”
Texas is rapidly becoming Gilead. Women are objects that incubate fetuses and nothing more. Medical concerns about the mother or the fetus are irrelevant.
It seems to me that if we care so much about women giving birth and maintaining the population, we would be much better off incentivizing women to conceive additional children when they are ready, rather than forcing them to birth an unwanted or even nonviable baby immediately.
But that would make too much sense. And I know it’s about control and not even what I said. Frickin people I swear.