Texas gets bitch slapped on abortion!

[Brian37]

SCOTUS upholds women's reproductive rights!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/us/sup....html?_r=0

[mlmooney89]

Thankfully! I love my state more than my country but there are bad things here and a lot of conservatives.

[brewer]

Just saw this. Suck it Texas, and Miss, and Ala, and the Dakotas.

Edit: In case you didn't know what was going on and have access to PBS: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/video...full-film/

[Brian37]

This is a good thing. It will open the door to reversing all the damage the other states are causing.

[Brian37]

Oh and just wait, I hope it does not happen, but wait. Some right winger will shoot up a clinic and the NRA will refuse to call it Christian terrorism. I hope that does not happen, but we've seen lots of attacks on clinics, one shooter did it last year.

[KevinM1]

Oh and just wait, I hope it does not happen, but wait. Some right winger will shoot up a clinic and the NRA will refuse to call it Christian terrorism. I hope that does not happen, but we've seen lots of attacks on clinics, one shooter did it last year.

Maybe.  Depends on how they handle the aftermath of this decision.  The Planned Parenthood shooting was the direct result of those heavily edited videos and the fervor of "They're killing babies and harvesting their parts for money!!!111!!!11!1!1!"

[TheRealJoeFish]

For anyone interested, here's a summary of the Supreme Court's holding:

Majority Opinion (Breyer, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan):

1. This case is not barred by res judicata. Res Judicata basically means "if you lose in a court case, you can't bring the very same claim again." People had tried to block this law from going into effect, but it was enacted anyway. The Supreme Court said that challenging the law after it's been enacted is not "the very same claim" as the attempt to block the law beforehand, so this was a valid legal case. This is mainly because, before the law goes into effect, you don't have a good sense of how clinics and access to abortions will be affected, whereas after you can point to concrete closures and obstacles.

2. Both parts of the law - that all abortion doctors needed admitting privileges and that all abortion centers meet the requirements of a "surgical center" under Texas law - are "an undue burden on abortion access and thus violate the Constitution." In particular,
a) any obstacle presented by a law (such as the one at issue) must be weighed against the medical benefits provided by that obstacle;
b) the evidence showed that there was no medical benefit to the admissions privilege requirement (especially compared to the previous law, "which required providers to have a 'working arrangement' with doctors who had admitting privileges); and
c) the requirement that all abortion centers meet "surgical center" standards provides no benefit that could arise in the context of an abortion and "that abortions taking place in abortion facilities are safer than common procedures that occur in outside clinics not subject to Texas's surgical-center requirements.
d) Additionally, Texas did not waive any of the requirements for any abortion centers, as it had for other non-hospital surgical centers.
e) "The [trial] court found that it 'strained credulity' to think that the seven or eight abortion facilities [left in Texas] would be able to meet the demand" in the state.

In his dissent, Thomas says that the "decision [in this case] exemplifies the Court's troubling tendency 'to bend the rules when any effort to limit abortion, or even to speak in opposition to abortion, is at issue.'" (That's his dear departed buddy Scalia he's quoting there.)

In the dissent that focuses on actual law, Alito (joined by Thomas and Roberts) argues that this case should indeed have been barred by the previous case that tried (and failed) to stop the law before it was enacted.

[vorlon13]

What's next for the Texas legislature ??

an infibulation law ??

[Minimalist]

Oh and just wait, I hope it does not happen, but wait. Some right winger will shoot up a clinic and the NRA will refuse to call it Christian terrorism. I hope that does not happen, but we've seen lots of attacks on clinics, one shooter did it last year.

Just a matter of time, Brian.  You know, "god" will tell some xtian shithead with a personal arsenal to go do it.

[dyresand]

The next time Texas says they want to separate from the Union fucking let them
we won't be loosing anything important at all.