A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a longstanding national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022.

  • ettyblatant@lemmy.world
    881·
    11 months ago

    Ok, to get this straight: cops do not need to protect, nor serve, and doctors do not need to save your life. I suppose life guards will get to decide whether or not they will grab a drowning child. Maybe the bathing suit is distasteful? If someone is in the street, I don’t have to stop unless I am fully comfortable doing so; I paid for my car and I shouldn’t have to risk damaging it by running someone over.

    What are regulations even for? God, the government is so useless!

    Hard /s

      • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        11 months ago

        It’s not useless, it’s actively harmful.

        Useless would be not providing funding for public health initiatives around contraception and abortions.

        But actively preventing adults from making life changing medical decisions for themselves is worse than useless, it’s harmful.

        Conservatives have been so committed to “the scariest words are the government saying I’m here to help” that they now aggressively make sure the government hurts people.

        The Republican party needs to go the way of the Whigs.