Moments ago, a federal Judge issued a temporary restraining order against a Mississippi law that would have closed the state's only abortion clinic. The law, which went into effect today, requires doctors at the clinic to get admitting privileges to local hospitals. The doctors have tried to get those privileges since the governor signed the law in April, but no hospital has granted them. Mississippi was about to become the first state in the nation to effectively ban the constitutionally protected medical service of abortion.
Judge Daniel P. Jordan ruled that the clinic is likely to succeed in proving that Mississippi's law is unconstitutional. He wrote:
In this case, Plaintiffs have offered evidence—including quotes from significant legislative and executive officers—that the Act’s purpose is to eliminate abortions in Mississippi. They likewise submitted evidence that no safety or health concerns motivated its passage. This evidence has not yet been rebutted.
The order lasts until July 11, when the court will hear the clinic's request for a permanent injunction of the law. Meanwhile, all our commenters who said video of state Rep. Bubba Carpenter boasting about the end of abortion in Mississippi was valuable legal evidence, you appear to have been right.
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Clearly, this is the case in all of the states trying to limit or eliminate legal abortions. Just as clearly, the Roberts Court is going to take a crack at this one as well. I'm not as excited about Robers as many are. I think his ruling, while brilliantly written, does more to hurt than to help. Yes, it upheld healthcare. But it did not affirm the Commerce Clause theory and characterized the penalty as a tax. If it were a tax, they Court would not have been able to rule on it because of the Anti Injunction rule. So he watered down the Commerce Clause and gave the teabpulicans ammunition against Obama in November. I expect the will do more of the same if/when these cases get to the Court.
these are my exact sentiments.
It will be years before or if this gets to the SCOTUS.
Once again, reason stands over ignorance. If there is only one abortion (Women's Health) clinic in Mississippi, there are obviously not many abortions happening there. But once again, Republicans tried to take away women's rights to health care and again, they lost, be it only temporary, but when it gets right down to it, they will probably lose permanently! Thank you Judge Jordon.
Well, no. This is not your typical wingnut "supply side" product. Abortion clinics are disappearing in number because whackjobs are gunning down doctors, and GOP-dominated state governments are bending over backwards to interfere in private business to close them down.
I agree, the lack of clinics gives absolutely no indication of lack of need. It has been demonstrated repeatedly that women have a hard time finding the reproductive services they need all across the country, leading to unwanted and unneeded pain and suffering. This is mysoginist, hate legislation driven by people who have no interest in a secular democratic country but wish to impose their own belief system on the rest of us -- if not by consent then by the perversion of the rule of law.
Constitution? What Constitution?
Now that is one brave judge. The crazies will want him in the crosshairs for sure.
bubba will say the judge had epilepsy problems you know like roberts
Bubba got a little too confident...
His name is Bubba.
He calls himself Bubba.
Not like Bill Clinton being called Bubba by others
He calls himself Bubba
Bubba.
Ya folla?
Republican big government is again rearing its ugly head. Republicans over reach and affect the freedom of a family to make legal choices is happening too often now, the concern is where the hell is this going?
Abortion should be safe and available. However I don't think there is a constitutional right to abortion. You have a right to privacy and laws that prohibit abortion require people looking at private medical records and are therefore unenforceable. Making the certification standards so high that clinics cannot pass them in effect bans abortions but as far as I can see there is no violation of privacy.
What did you just say? Truly, I didn't understand it.
I think Roe V Wade was based on the right to privacy not abortion.
Sort of but not really. There were all sorts of factors cited in the majority opinion.
The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, legalizing abortions under most conditions throughout the United States
apparently you are confused about case law so i shall quote it for you... note that it includes the word "privacy" whilst discussing the decision to terminate.
"[i]f the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child."
This was from Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld Roe v. Wade.
Can provide more caselaw quotes if you need more cliff notes...
Who pays for these insane "laws" to be heard in court and approximately how much does it cost the tax payers?
And I wish intelligent people would stop using the term pro-life, as this nonsense is anything but.
the State of Kansas has spent $600K already defending its legal challenges .. this year alone.
They use the term "Pro-Life" because it triggers emotional responses in people. I prefer to call it "Pro-Family Planning" and wish that the people that support RoeVWade did also. I have yet to see any church or organization that supports non-choice step up to guarantee to support the woman and child for the next 18 years should she chose to continue the pregnancy.
Kareen, wondering if you are confusing your terms..."Pro-Choice" would be the equivalent of "Pro-Family-Planning", not "Pro-Life". To your point, though, the "Life" that is protected seems to end at birth, as these same folks seem to care not at all about the quality of the life that exists thereafter.
"Pro-life" is obviously a self-serving deception. What they are is the forced-birth crowd.
Actually, most churches back "little life pregnancy centers" which do provide and help to women after the birth of the child...At least every church I have ever attended did...they provide counseling, help with adoptions, food, clothing, housing...etc etc
Chalk one up for the rule of law in the USA. Thanks for the update!
I stand by and bask in the GLOW of ~~ " INDEPENDENCE " period!!! Not matter...but not DEPENDENCE/ ONE-Man RULE....there area bigger words for that ...but common words are needed now...I STAND BY OUR PRESIDENT OBAMA....HE IS BETTER MAN FOR OUR TIMES~!!!... The bigots can go to and stand in a lower level!!...
When if my state just because they felt like it, decided to ban all firearms in the state! Since it is our "CONSTTUIONAL RIGHT" to bear arms, this would be an illegal law, right? So banning abortions which is our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT is wrong, right? Not to mention illegal, right?? Why doesn't the GOP concentrate on jobs instead of the uterus?? It would be so much more productive, but of course that doesn't even begin to stop their idiotic fasination with restricting rights for "WOMEN". You don't see them fighting against Viagra, no they FUND that... Kudos to Judge Jordan
These wing-nuts don't want the Government involved in health care, but they want to regulate the health of a woman......go figure. This is a very personal decision between a woman, her spouse or the Father, the doctor and her own religious beliefs. NO Government has any business telling a woman what to do in a decision that is difficult at best for all involved. It is terrifying to me the direction this country is headed. And the Koch brothers have pledged $100 million to defeat President Obama and put Tea Party people in Congress. If these people are allowed to run our Government, anyone who disagrees with them will be persecuted.
And the REALLY hypocritical part is most of them support capital punishment, yet claim to be "pro life".
I get the feeling that the yahoos like it that it's mostly non-white people who end up on death row. After all, Mississippi IS the state that elected Haley "I don't remember Mississippi in the early '60s being that bad" Barbour governor.
Haley Barbour pardoned a whole ton of dudes on death row/life sentences when he left office, and the conservatives HATED him for it. So I think he still has a few shreds of humanity left over.
I really want a representative called "Bubba"....I thought it was bad here in Georgia with the wing-nuts!
Are there no women living in the red states where abortion is being outlawed? Why aren't the women up in arms about this? Is religious zeal so strong in places like Mississippi that women's rights just don't matter - even to the women who live there?
I don't get this. How have the women in these states let this happen?
The women in this state, along with the strong and smart men who love and respect them, voted NO on an amendment in November that said personhood begins with fertilization. We defeated that initiative by a 58-42% margin, but ironically, the majority also elected for governor the man who was co-chairman of that initiative movement. Go figure!
@ Don Mathews: The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, legalizing abortions under most conditions throughout the United States
Half of me is hoping for a court victory here, and the other half is bracing for news of a bombing at this clinic. The doctors working there deserve medals for their courage.
So there IS some decency left in Mississippi after all!
From the party that brought you "Freedom." These people are the real terrorists of this country. You don't want to have an abortion? Then don't. And I doubt many women do either. It is one of the hardest choices in the world. But to try to restrict a LEGAL procedure in this country is disgusting. Utterly disgusting. These people don't believe in freedom. They believe in the freedom to think as they do, otherwise they'll try to block you.
In the 70's and 80's, the city of Schenectady, NY's Planned Parenthood clinic was constantly deluged with protestors. When we drove by one day, my father looked at them and said he didn't understand them. His idea impressed me then and impresses me still to this day.
His idea? Every person who walks in a protest or votes to tighten up abortion rules wants to save a child? Ok. For each woman that walks into a clinic to have an abortion, one of the protestors or Congressman needs to step up and take that woman into their home for the next 9 months. They need to pay for the doctor visits, the ultrasounds, the vitamins, the correct food for her to eat, etc. When she goes into labor, they pay for the entire hospital stay, the OB-GYN, all of it. Then they legally adopt that child and raise it for the next 21 years. Any takers? No?? Then stop telling women who don't want to have that child, for whatever reason, that they HAVE to have it. If YOU don't want to put your money where your mouth is, why should she have to do what YOU want her to do?
well henry... i suggest that both parties in the horizontal lambada have the "what if" discussion before they get naked.
if he doesn't want it and she does, he can relinquish parental rights. Sign on the dotted line and you have no claim (nor responsibility) for the child.
Koch brothers pledged 400 million to defeat Obama and after the HCA decision another 40 mil to undo it.
In regards to women up in arm in southern states, yes, religious zeal is so pervasive amongst the women of the bible belt that they detest abortion. the vast majority of anti-abortion agitators are young professional women, not old white guys. The menfolk of the south tend to run to a more libertarian view of things and don't really care one way or the other on the abortion issue, with a mild preference that it is available in case they get their girlfriend pregnant, even though they would never admit that in polite company. They vote Republican so they can keep their guns, work in as minimally regulated and environment as is possible, and get to spend their money instead of having the government waste it. Abortion is a "women's issue" to them, so most of the rabid issues voters who are motivated by abortion are women or pastors.
That's just amazing. Well that clears up a lot, thank you very much. i can see that there are whole sections of the country that I will never want to step foot in.
WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE REPUBLICAN 'WAR ON WOMEN' GAME PLAN CAME FROM?
There was a poorly done pretend documentary made in 1992 called "RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER". It's on Netflix. The movie takes place in 2042 where abortion and contraception are considered murder and prosecuted as such. The entire movie (remember 1992) hits on everything this 'war on women' is trying to do...from the rise of ultra conservatives down to the number of states with anti-abortion restrictions that slowly chipped away at Roe vs Wade until it no longer mattered.
RACHEL YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS!
Why don't the Republicans stop trying to change established law and work on jobs and the economy? What jobs bill have they passed since Boehner became Speaker of the House???????
Maybe it's because they can't agree within the party on a jobs platform. Their tactic for the past few elections has been "bait and switch" -- campaign on jobs, then do nothing but abortion legislation. Pathetic.
It'd be neat for someone to do a segment, article or ad on the number of abortion- and reproductive rights-related pieces of legislation versus jobs-related legislation introduced by the republican party. I'd wager that if the people really knew what was going on, there'd be a bigger hue and cry...and more Dem votes in the fall.
If your gad doesn't like something I'm doing then why not let Him stop me, not you. Isn't your belief that he will burn me in hell for an eternity after I die, enough to keep you happy?
I'd like to see someone (I'm too chicken) hang out with the protesters of a Planned Parenthood office with a sign that reads "Stop Christian Child Torture" with Mark 7:10 & Mat 15:4.... The logic there being that the bibble's prescribeing "stoning your child to death" is much slower than if the bibble were to suggest bashing his/her brains out with a large rock or the cutting of their throats with a sharp rock,,,.
The two quotes above (Mat 15:4, Mark 7:10)are probably the closest the bibble comes to the abortion question. Two more of many many reasons not to use the bibble as a moral guide.
I think it's something on the order of 30-50% of pregnancies end as miscarriage during the 1st trimester. Having an abortion in the U.S. is 14X safer than childbirth (Wikipedia).
I would guess that before "modern medicine", 1 in 10 pregnancies the woman and or child would die in labor. How could anyone believe there is a gad after such a thing. If there ever was a purpose for a god, saving your wife and child during childbirth would be the primary reason. I'll bet our country's forefathers largely understood the need for a secular nation by their witnessing their religious neaghbors die in childbirth.
The secular humanist utopian would would want more birth control access? A sex education that would deflate the hype surrounding sex (it really isn't that great). More midwives? As being smart and healthy are fundamental guides of a secular ethic (the smarter/healthier = the more "good" you can do) then monagamy/sexual prudishness is the more moral behavior.
Commit a felony, get sterilized.
If there was a very safe and simple procedure (I think there already is) that 1 in 3 women knew about, I think this would be a "non-issue".