A fevered mind's musings? Nope, just usual GOP outrages
By Sid Schwab / Herald Forum
Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, is a heartless Christo-fascist. Under several indictments, like Trump, he’s the “Death to America” poster boy for America’s future if Trump and Republicans like him control America’s government. This is not subject to question. It’s as obvious as Trump’s escalating, dangerous rhetoric, spewing forth at rallies and from “Truth Social” like lava from Kilauea, but not as awesome.
You’ve heard the story: a Texas woman, pregnant with a fetus bearing a death-dealing genetic mutation, trisomy 18, was advised by her doctors to have an abortion; not only to terminate the doomed pregnancy but to protect her own health, as she’d already had three visits to emergency departments to deal with consequences of carrying this malformed tragedy. Because Texas abortion laws are red-state restrictive, she needed a judicial order. Which she got. Immediately, Paxton threatened to jail the woman and any doctor who’d do the abortion; and punish hospitals who’d allow it in their facilities.
Then, the Texas Supreme Court, a panoply of right-wing religious zealots, one of whom was arrested 37 times for (with judicial impartiality) harassing women at abortion clinics, stayed and later aborted the lower court order. For what possible reason? To the benefit of whom?
Forced to be born, the baby would either be stillborn or die shortly after. Carrying the baby to term in emotional misery, the mother could well lose the ability to become pregnant again. Other than vindictive cruelty and a desire to impose a most perverse form of “Christian” theocracy on all Texan women because they can, what justification can there be to demand such an outcome? If it’s God on their “minds,” well, He sentenced the baby to death at the moment of conception. Is the God they believe in the sort to do that and then glory in the mother’s gestational suffering? That’s not one I’d want to believe in.
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