And The Horse You Rode In On

If anyone should be running for the border to escape the law, it’s Ken Paxton, the corrupt Attorney General of Texas.

Texas is OK with goons in government suppressing women’s rights. Recently, a woman asked a judge if she could have an emergency abortion after learning that her fetus had a fatal genetic condition and that carrying the pregnancy to term could jeopardize her future fertility.

The reason the woman had to ask a judge for approval over something that shouldn’t be anyone else’s business, a decision concerning HER body, is because she lives in Texas. A court approved her emergency abortion but then the Texas State Supreme Court, where all nine judges, six of them men, are Republicans, overruled and said she can’t have an abortion. By that time, she was already gone.

Kate Cox, the 31-year-old mother of two has fled Texas for control over her own body. Ken Paxton, who believes everything from a woman getting an abortion to certifying the presidential election to Obamacare to health guidelines during a pandemic or how Pennsylvania awards its electoral votes shouldn’t happen without his permission, is very upset.

Travis County District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, an elected Democrat, granted a temporary restraining order to allow Cox to have an abortion. That’s when Paxton rode in on his high horse to ask the state Supreme Court to stop it because a woman making a decision that has nothing to do with him concerning her own body can’t be allowed. I hope she’s having her abortion in Pennsylvania.

Paxton also wrote a letter threatening legal action if Cox had the procedure in the state, warning doctors and hospitals that anyone involved in performing an abortion for Cox would face the Texas Taliban and “civil and criminal liability” that could include ‘first-degree felony prosecutions.” He claims Cox’s case did not meet “all of the elements necessary to fall within an exception to Texas’ abortion laws” and that the district judge, a woman, was “not medically qualified to make this determination.”

As for Paxton’s medical qualifications, he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a degree in business administration, and a law degree. None of these are medical degrees. But then again, Paxton doesn’t have a degree in taking bribes either yet he’s pretty good at that and getting away with it.

Just the fact that the Texas judge who ruled Cox can get an emergency abortion has a vagina makes her more medically qualified in this situation than Ken Paxton…though to be fair, there are rumors he is dickless.

Cox wrote in an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News, “I am a Texan. Why should I or any other woman have to drive or fly hundreds of miles to do what we feel is best for ourselves and our families, to determine our own futures?” The answer to that question, Ms. Cox, is because you live in a repressed Yeehaw state that’s medieval as fuck. You may want to consider not going back.

Despite actual medical professionals advising Ms. Cox to have an abortion, the state’s highest court chock-full of Republican troglodytes who get their opinions about women from 1 Timothy 2:11-12 decided that her situation wasn’t sufficient grounds for allowing an exception to the near-total ban on abortions in Texas.

After consulting the Old Testament, the Texas State Supreme Court wrote, “Any parent would be devastated to learn of their unborn child’s Trisomy 18 diagnosis. Some difficulties in pregnancy, however, even serious ones, do not pose the heightened risks to the mother the exception encompasses.”

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an organization whose members have actual medical degrees, filed an amicus brief in support of Cox, stating, “In addition to this devastating diagnosis, Ms. Cox is facing additional risk factors. If Ms. Cox is forced to carry her pregnancy to term, her risk factors again intensify.”

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is the leading professional association for OB/GYNs. Ken Paxton is the leading attorney general for taking bribes, goosestepping, and diddling someone who’s not his wife. The Texas State Supreme Court is the leading authority on sticking one’s head up his own ass.

In Texas, a doctor who performs an abortion could be sentenced to life in prison, but taking a bribe, running to Cancun during a record-breaking winter storm, becoming a sycophant for someone who says your wife is ugly, being a Dallas Cowboys fan, or doing nothing to stop psychopaths from killing 19 children in an elementary school with an assault rifle will get you re-elected.

A woman’s decision regarding her own body should be between her and her doctor…not judges and corrupt attorneys general, even in a Taliban-governed Yeehaw state like Texas.

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