Thank you for this link!

I have told my husbnd he is never to take me to a Catholic hospital if I’m pregnant and having a medical emergency. I have an advanced care directive and a list of non Catholic hospitals nearby ready for him just in case.

The worst case scenario is 4-4, and even if that happens, it’s not Court precedent. It would awful for Texas women in the short term, but then Hillary appoints a liberal and when another case inevitably comes up, it gets thoroughly eviscerated.

For me the ridiculous part of all this is that the people who have enacted these laws openly acknowledge their reason for creating them: to prevent women from accessing abortion services. They’re not even bothering to cover their asses and they might get away with it!

Jesus Christ. And their clients aren’t informed of this? How can these people be expected to give accurate information and advice to their patients?

Actually, every OB/Gyn receives training to perform a first trimester surgical abortion. It is a D&C, the same procedure performed for miscarriages which have not passed, among other reasons. We learn it our first year of residency. The difference is that many doctors choose not to do termination of pregnancy D&Cs for…

Yep! People can predict SCOTUS results. There are some folks who are really good at it: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-t…

Excuse me, FantasySCOTUS?!?! Is this a real thing?

I’ve already decided to take a social media break if it goes badly. I’d either be angrily ranting and raving, or starting some serious FB feuds with anyone who disagrees.

Breyer typically votes pro-choice. Kennedy is the one we have to worry about. You can find the PDF transcripts of the SCOTUS arguments here:

Well, let’s hope the barrage of facts laid down by Kagan, Sotomayor and RBG during the hearing a couple of months ago penetrated the skulls of at least one of the male justices.

So the same Republicans who want to repeal the ACA and focus on controlling health care costs are making a simple, safe procedure more difficult, complicated and expensive. I am sick to death of their hypocrisy. They claim government is too intrusive, but it has the right to tell my wife, daughters, and, when they…

The defendant, a male pediatrician, knows damned well that this has nothing to do with “patient safety” and everything to do with controlling women.

It’s always interesting that Conservatives think that the Second Amendment gives them unfettered, unrestricted access to guns, but abortion is considered a substantive due process right under the 9th Amendment and they believe in all placing all the possible restrictions on it that they can.

“Every baby is a blessing”