Tom on Abortion

 Abortion is the issue that will never go away and now we have dueling court orders that are diametrically opposed On Friday evening Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk who is an extreme conservative who has long been an anti-abortion activist ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) didn't take into account the psychological damage that occurs in cases where a woman receives a so-called medication abortion This sort of allegation is typical fabrication concerning the downside of getting an abortion From what I've read about the phenomenon Pro-life people almost always allege various types of psychological and emotional damage including but not limited to depression self-harming alcoholism and drug abuse Suicidal Ideation is also alleged and abortion is often claimed to be a causal factor in post-abortion cases of breast cancer All of these mythic allegations of the pro-life folks have been investigated and found to be baseless 

These claims by the ignorant are easily discredited but what worries me is the effective hijacking of the entire drug regulatory system by a scientifically ignorant federal Judge who believes that he is in direct contact with God For all of his blather about uninvestigated harms that come to women who receive abortions the judge somehow failed to note that the drug in question is among the safest drugs in the entire pharmacopeia Penicillin is more dangerous Viagra is more dangerous Tylenol is more dangerous And one of the most dangerous things that a young woman can engage in is...childbirth

The Department of Justice, (DOJ),  has filed a request before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals which is the circuit court that oversees the Amarillo Texas area. I'm not a lawyer, but you don't have to be a lawyer to see how flawed this case is. Aside from the factors that I noted above, the matters that will come up on appeal include matters of standing, (Was the plaintiff actually harmed? If the answer is no, the plaintiff has no standing. Case Dismissed) Has the Statute of Limitations passed? If the answer is no, the case is dismissed. The DOJ is asking the Fifth Circuit to stay enforcement of the district court order until the case can be properly considered This case is on a last track to the SCOTUS  

BUTTIGIEG ON ABORTION

Pete Buttigieg with the only acceptable answer RE: “late term abortions:”

Buttigieg: I think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line that we’ve gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line and I trust women to draw the line when it’s their own health.

Chris Wallace: So just to be clear, you’re saying you would be okay with a woman, well into the third trimester deciding to abort her pregnancy.

Buttigieg: Look, these hypotheticals are usually set up in order to provoke a strong emotional --

Wallace: It’s not hypothetical, there are 6,000 women a year who get abortions in the third trimester.

Buttigieg: That’s right, representing less than 1 percent of cases. So let’s put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it’s that late in your pregnancy, then almost by definition, you’ve been expecting to carry it to term. We’re talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name. Women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother or viability of the pregnancy that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made."