An excellent book for 'the rest of the story'. Highly recommended.
Ray Raphael-The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord
Posted on 08/29/2014 3:47:34 PM PDT by don-o
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge Friday threw out new Texas abortion restrictions that would have effectively closed more than a dozen clinics in the state.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sided with clinics that sued over one of the most disputed measures of a sweeping anti-abortion bill signed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry in 2013. The ruling stops new restrictions that would have left seven abortion facilities in Texas come Monday. There are currently 19 abortion providers in the state, according to groups challenging the law.
"The overall effect of the provisions is to create an impermissible obstacle as applied to all women seeking a previability abortion," Yeakel wrote in his 21-page ruling.
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George W Bush appointment.
Thought the name sounded familiar...this isn’t his first abortion rodeo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Leroy_Yeakel_III
This one sure is.
If they cared about these women, they’d understand that higher standards protects their health, even while they are killing half their patients.
200 years ago Americans would have had miscreant judges like this exploring new career opportunities in a tar and feather suit.
But then they didn’t have to worry about a paramilitary constabulary which serves the courts instead of the public.
On the other hand they never would have been stupid enough to surrender
their right to defend themselves and their rights to those people in the first place.
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.
"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".Lt. Gov Hutchinson and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.
A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.
The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.
The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.
Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.
This was what the federal judge did not like. Funny, do women want abortion clinicz that do not meet these standards?
I read a great book called “The first American Revolution”.
George III lost control of Massachusetts long before Lexington and Concord.
When the Boston Port Act (Intolerable Act) was passed
Britain dissolved the provincial legislature and all Judges had to be approved by British government.
Rightfully viewing this as infringement of their rights and the instrument of tyranny, armed militiamen by the hundreds converged on every courthouse and forced the British appointed judges to step down.
I wonder what they would think of Federal judges ignoring the will of the people on such a sensitive issue as this and following the dictates of the Executive?
So it’s gone from a right to privacy to a right to an abortion, safety be damned.
This is what became of our “democracy”: Conform to the will of the elites or get bulldozed—maybe even literally, but more likely with taxes, fines and ridicule. Gay marriage is Example #1, but the rest of the Dissolute Sex Rights agenda is close behind.
Remember all the effort that went into the traditional marriage laws? Remember the fight in Texas over the abortion law? FORGET IT! Wendy Davis wins. The end.
screw women’s health safety.
An excellent book for 'the rest of the story'. Highly recommended.
Ray Raphael-The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord
That’s it!
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