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Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Provisions of Texas Abortion Law

 

 

The Supreme Court remains guardians  of the right of women to slay their offspring:

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The Supreme Court has reversed a landmark Texas pro-life law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges and abortion facilities to meet more stringent health standards.

An eight-justice Supreme Court has reversed the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (formerly Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole), 5-3.

The case was brought by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of independent abortion facilities in Texas.

The case involves Texas’ H.B. 2, a pro-life law that, aside from restricting abortion to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, required abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their offices and abortion facilities to meet the same health standards as other ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs).

Those regulations caused the number of abortion facilities to drop from 41 to eight according to Planned Parenthood, closing 13 abortion facilities in one day.

The decision, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, says that both requirement place a substantial burden on women’s right to exercise their reproductive rights, including the right to obtain an abortion. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote her own concurring opinion, writing that “complications from an abortion are both rare and rarely dangerous.”

 

Go here to read the rest.  Go here to read the decision.  The dissents of Thomas and Alito are memorable as, once again, a Supreme Court majority mutilates constitutional law in order to safeguard the purely court created right to abortion.  The most powerful argument that those supporting Donald Trump have is imagining a Supreme Court filled with Hillary Clinton appointees.

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Clinton
Clinton
Monday, June 27, AD 2016 3:08pm

Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Emily’s List and their fellow travelers on the
current Supreme Court all believe that having abortion facilities meet the
same health standards as other ambulatory surgical centers constitutes
an unreasonable burden on a woman’s right to an abortion– even if it’s
an unsafe one, evidently.
.
Kermit Gosnell’s infamous “clinic” was where born babies were murdered and
displayed in jars, where conditions were filthy and basic health regulations
were flouted. His abortion “clinic” operated like that for 17 years because
in that time the state of Pennsylvania, under pressure from groups like Planned
Parenthood, opted to cease all inspections of all of Pennsylvania’s 22
abortion facilities.
Kermit Gosnell happened as a direct result of Planned
Parenthood’s policy against ‘undue burdens’ on access to abortion, and
now that policy is enshrined in a Supreme Court decision.
.
An abortion is not the removal of a hangnail– it’s a serious surgical procedure
and a lot can go wrong. It’s a strange society that chooses to have more
rigorous health inspections for its nail salons and restaurants than it does for
its abortion facilities. As of today, the Supreme Court has made another
Kermit Gosnell butcher shop much, much more likely.

Alphatron Shinyskullus
Alphatron Shinyskullus
Monday, June 27, AD 2016 3:48pm

Even using the underreported, outdated statistics, the complication rate is comparable to the overall rate of accidental lacerations and punctures for surgery in general.

Penguin Fan
Penguin Fan
Monday, June 27, AD 2016 4:57pm

Texas needs to tell the Supreme Court to go to hell, and take Planned Parenthood with ’em. If I were Greg Abbot, I would tell Breyer and Ginsburg to enforce their damned decision themselves…..and have them arrested for vagrancy the second they stepped in the state of Texas.

cthemfly25
cthemfly25
Monday, June 27, AD 2016 5:11pm

“When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there’ll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world — and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, ‘Spare him, because he loved us!'”

Congressman Henry Hyde

Penguin Fan
Penguin Fan
Monday, June 27, AD 2016 5:47pm

The Supreme Court has found baby killing, sodomy and homosexual marriage to be protected by the Constitution, though none are mentioned in the Constitution. The Ten Commandments, nativity scenes and crosses on government land are unconstitutional. To hell with the Supreme Court. It is past time for an uprising against this crap.

Dante alighieri
Admin
Monday, June 27, AD 2016 8:05pm

Here are the presumptive Republican nominee’s comments on the case:

Dante alighieri
Admin
Monday, June 27, AD 2016 8:07pm
Philip
Philip
Tuesday, June 28, AD 2016 3:17am

@cthemfly25.

Thanks for the Henry Hyde quote.
I haven’t heard of it before.

That we, as a Nation, haven’t been brought to our knees by catastrophic events is evidence of God’s mercy. The millions of aborted souls who Henry Hyde imagined, are real. Do they count? Not on earth, especially in America, but in heaven they count. They are an active part of the celestial court. They will give testimony on behalf of the righteous as well as the damned.

To equate Woman’s Reproductive Health with the slaughter of the innocent child isn’t just absurd, it’s callous. To think our Highest Court on our soil would disregard the right to LIFE in favor of Planned murder is alone the single most revealing evidence that we are in the new dark age. Dog’s that are suffering the consequences of their owners stupidity by dieing in automobiles due to excessive heat are held in higher sympathy than the human baby who is ripped apart.

God help us.

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Dan Curry
Dan Curry
Tuesday, June 28, AD 2016 9:55am

The Pope came to the Mexican border to give comfort to those who violate another country’s laws , and while there he criticized a candidate for President of the United States who is not a Catholic! I’ll wait to read about the Pope’s ex communication of the Catholic US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy who… with his single vote, keeps more abortion clinics in business and prevents reasonable restrictions to the taking of that innocent life. Pope Francis…. I’m waiting!!!

Ken
Ken
Tuesday, June 28, AD 2016 11:31am

Being ignorant of the entire legal process I can’t help but wonder if the pro-lifers in Texas can go back and write a series of laws instead of one broad law with many facets?

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