Cruz: Federal judge’s abortion decision a ‘real war on women’

washington Times ^ | August 30, 2014 | Kellan Howell

[SoConPubbie]

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, called a federal judge’s Friday decision to strike down stricter medical regulations on abortion and the clinics a “real war on women.”

The bill, which was signed by Gov. Rick Perry last July, would place limits on abortions after 20 weeks and set tighter safety standards on abortion clinics in the state.

“Today’s decision is a setback and would allow abortion facilities to continue operating under substandard conditions — that is a real war on women,” Mr. Cruz, who is considering a bid for president in 2016, wrote on his Facebook page.
The new standards, set to begin on Monday, would have effectively shut down many clinics across the sprawling state, particularly hitting those outside a handful of big cities, according to the Texas Tribune.

“The court is firmly convinced that the State has placed unreasonable obstacles in the path of a woman’s ability to obtain a previability abortion,” Judge Lee Yeakel, who was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, wrote in his opinion.

Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis, who is running for governor and who catapulted to national fame and the #StandWithWendy hashtag in her eventually unsuccessful bid to filibuster the bill, agreed with the ruling, calling it a “victory for women’s health care.”
“These decisions should only be made between a woman, her doctor and her God — not Austin politicians like Attorney General Greg Abbott, who would make abortion illegal even in cases of rape and incest,” Ms. Davis said, adding a shot at her Republican rival in the gubernatorial race, according to the Tribune.

[SoConPubbie]

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[SoConPubbie]

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[BlueNgold]

Does anyone else find irony in the argument that laws such as this would lead to a catastrophic epidemic of back alley rusty coat hanger abortions?

I ask because this argument is made by the same proponents who insist there is somehow a constitutional right to obtain rusty knife unregulated storefront abortions from facilities without the means to provide emergency lifesaving care when things go badly. In fact they take issue with the idea there is a problem when moderate to high risk medical procedures (abortions) are performed by providers without the skills, licenses, or privileges to perform either emergency care or even in-patient follow up for those who require post emergency care.

[exDemMom]

Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis, who is running for governor and who catapulted to national fame and the #StandWithWendy hashtag in her eventually unsuccessful bid to filibuster the bill, agreed with the ruling, calling it a “victory for women’s health care.”

Right. Because even if abortion were a legitimate medical procedure, women's health care is definitely improved by allowing abortions to be performed under health and hygiene standards that are more lax than those that regulate the local beauty salon and not even enforced. Suuuuure.

[BlueNgold]

Here’s another question for the abortion proponents fighting this law...

Would you support a law allowing your 11 yr old son or daughter to have a tonsilectomy from a storefront clinic not subject to surgical standards and who’s providers did not have privileges to provide post operative or post emergency care? Further, would you support laws saying they can have this procedure without your knowledge or consent?

[xzins]

Sure. Why don’t we have appendectomies in clinics whose doctors don’t have hospital privileges nearby?

[TBP]

This judge is a typical liberal, filled with hate for others.

[Amendment10]

As just mentioned in a related thread, please consider the following about so-called constitutional health protections, actually the lack thereof.

One of the major problems with federal Democrats wrongly establishing vote-winning federal healthcare programs outside the framework of the Constitution since the FDR administration, constitutionally indefensible Obamacare Democratcare the most recent example, such programs actually based on state powers and state revenues which the corrupt feds have stolen from the states, is that healthcare has never been enumerated as a constitutionally protected right.

So what we're seeing is misguided activist healthcare judges complementing corrupt lawmakers by wrongly legislating "constitutional" healthcare rights from the bench.

[M-cubed]

Perfect answer....But you're preaching to the Choir here...

[SaraJohnson]

I ask because this argument is made by the same proponents who insist there is somehow a constitutional right to obtain rusty knife unregulated storefront abortions from facilities without the means to provide emergency lifesaving care when things go badly.

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With the conviction of some baby butchers of late, I don’t hear much about coat hangers these days.