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Abortion activists just scored a huge victory. Why doesn’t it feel like it?
pmsNBC ^ | October 7, 2021 | Ja'han Jones

Posted on 10/07/2021 9:54:33 AM PDT by Morgana

The past six weeks in Texas have been hellish for pregnant women seeking abortions.

The decision by a federal judge in Austin on Wednesday night to pause enforcement of Texas’ ultrarestrictive anti-abortion law, S.B. 8, offered them a reprieve — if only temporary.

The conservative-tilted U.S. Supreme Court is planning to hear arguments in December about a separate restrictive abortion law in Mississippi, which activists fear could lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Though the ruling in Texas is welcome, the inevitability of an appeal seeking to overturn that decision and the looming Mississippi case are casting a pall on the latest news.

It’s uncertain whether abortions will pick up again in the state, given the consequences providers could face if the law is reinstated. And the measured reactions from defenders of reproductive rights signal they know what we all know: There’s still a storm on the horizon.

Take the White House’s reaction, for example. Press secretary Jen Psaki released a statement Wednesday calling the ruling “an important step forward toward restoring the constitutional rights of women across the state of Texas.” But, she said, “the fight has only just begun, both in Texas and in many states across this country where women’s rights are currently under attack.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; jenniferaniston; jenpsaki; obamacare; plannedparenthood; prolife; righttolife; scotus; texas; texasheartbeatact
Why doesn’t it feel like it? FReepers take this question.
1 posted on 10/07/2021 9:54:33 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Abortion isn’t a right, it is a wrong.

The ancient hipocratic oath for doctors included a vow not to perform abortions.

How can abortions be kept “safe”, when it results in death every single time?

There are laws against cruelty to animals. But we know babies in the womb feel pain at some point, but we do nothing to administer pain relief before executing them.


2 posted on 10/07/2021 9:58:52 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Morgana

“Though the ruling in Texas is welcome...” Way to hide your blatant bias Ja”han. [S]


3 posted on 10/07/2021 10:05:14 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Morgana

[[The past six weeks in Texas have been hellish for pregnant women seeking abortions]]

Have been hellish for all those poor women looking to murder their unborn children? Gosh, those poor poor women. (Their lives haven’t been early as “hellish” as the poor unborn child’s short life Will be, as they will be ripped limb from limb, alive, and sucked into a vacuum while ferociously trying to evade the pain. So cry us a river you poor poor women awaiting the go signal from sick individuals who care nothing for the xanctity of life, to resume Murdering your unborn children.


4 posted on 10/07/2021 10:06:19 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Mount Athos

There is no hipocratic oath anymore, it has morphed into the hypocritical oath. Just look at how doctors are refusing to operate or see patients who haven’t submitted to the vaccine e demands yet.


5 posted on 10/07/2021 10:08:35 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Morgana

The idiot answers itself in its second sentence - “it’s only temporary.” They know this is getting overruled like the other attempts lately.


6 posted on 10/07/2021 10:08:37 AM PDT by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: Morgana

Because they know a federal judge in Austin isn’t going to be the final arbiter of the question, most likely.


7 posted on 10/07/2021 10:09:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Morgana

The same reason that people are yelling “Let’s Go Brandon” The people who push this know that the current is against them and that it is going to get stronger. They think we will eventually fold, but there is no reason for us to. SO that day is coming when several someone’s will break, people will die, and it will be on. I just don’t know when our “North Bridge” incident will occur.


8 posted on 10/07/2021 10:11:07 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Morgana

It doesn’t feel like it because they will continue their fight to take the life of babies.....they’re as much a death cult as ISIS and just as brutal in what they do on these babies in and out of the womb. They’re sadistic killers.


9 posted on 10/07/2021 10:13:59 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Morgana
>"The past six weeks in Texas have been hellish for pregnant women seeking abortions"

This freudian slip underscores the hedonist/satanist foundations of the pro-choice facet of the left.

10 posted on 10/07/2021 10:15:18 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !)
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To: SecondAmendment

did they use the word women?

I thought it was birthing humans.


11 posted on 10/07/2021 10:18:40 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said thein story was false!)
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To: Morgana

“Texas’ ultrarestrictive anti-abortion law...”
I bet some MSNBC editor sent the writer a memo saying the proper term is “antichoicerights” law.


12 posted on 10/07/2021 10:23:46 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Morgana

It is not a victory because the ruling was by a D judge instead of an R judge which are different and is recognized by everyone but Roberts.


13 posted on 10/07/2021 10:30:49 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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To: Morgana

Hellish for women seeking abortions? What about the babies they do manage to murder?


14 posted on 10/07/2021 10:44:30 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Morgana

The TX district judge is a speed bump. SCOTUS has already given abortion powers to the states. So you can kill any baby any time in NY, but you can’t in TX.


15 posted on 10/07/2021 11:08:49 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Morgana

"The past six weeks in Texas have been hellish for pregnant women seeking abortions"

What's it been like for the babies, Ja'han? (seen in 2021, and 2016)

16 posted on 10/07/2021 11:26:32 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Bob434
 
 
Been "hellish" for the abortion industry - McMansions and exotic sports cars are expensive. Heck of a PR stunt they've accomplished, fooling gullible nit-wit girls into believing it's all about "my body, my choice".
 
 
 
 

17 posted on 10/07/2021 11:30:59 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: SecondAmendment

What is the Freudian slip?


18 posted on 10/07/2021 6:21:17 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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