If reciprocal enforcement can allow Texas to force NY to follow their laws, then why can't NY force Texas to provide abortions?
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Or enforce NY gun laws in Texas. They'll care a lot more about that.
True story.
One night a woman came to our Catholic hospital ER in Central Texas because she was sexually assaulted.
The doctor prescribed Plan B because the victim didn't want to carry her rapist's baby.
Our hospital refused to dispense it. Poor woman had to wait two days to get it from CVS.
This is the reality
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
"Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!"
Fun facts (they are not fun):
After a forced stay in their psych ward, my local Catholic Hospital asked me if I "felt the light of god during [my] stay?" They also don't prescribe birth control and have a general hate-boner for having to help fat women. I had to teach my doctor what a trans person is and how to address one (this decade).
Anyway, they bought all the medical buildings in all the towns near me. Woo!
Lots of hospitals were started by churches.
One of Texas's biggest medical providers is the Methodist Health System, with 12 full-fledged hospitals and over 100 clinics that started as a hospital in Houston founded by the Methodist church. For most people, it's just another hospital. The church doesn't get any of the money or anything.
Catholic hospitals, however, are a little more notorious for denying care based on religious principles - with abortion and birth control being the big one. They won't do abortions, offer contraceptives, or perform vasectomies, for instance.
I'm not religious in the slightest, but in my experience, them Methodists seem pretty chill. Worked with one to make their website a while a back and their pastor was the most laid back, easy to work with dude, loved everyone, black, white, brown, straight, gay, trans, whatever. I miss that guy.
Catholic and Methodist are very different. Catholic doesn't allow abortion but. Turn a blind eye to premarital sex.
Be careful now.
The methodist church had a schism recently. There's the "United Methodist" and the new "Global Methodist."
The Global Methodist church was founded specifically to exclude gay people. They also have much smaller apportionments (church's equivalent of taxes that the individual churches pay to the organization and is used for things like relief work), and allow the congregations to directly hore and fire clergy so the preachers can't get all uppity and tell them not to be prejudiced or to be kind or welcoming to people who aren't like you.
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The Seventh Day Adventists also have a shit ton of hospitals, the largest among the Protestant denominations iirc. You’ve probably heard of the Kellogg families impact on things like popularizing circumcision…
SDAs also have a substantial impact on the modern conspiracy theory landscape. The cult at Waco was an offshoot, Bill Cooper incorporated their propaganda in his weirdo narrative, if you live in the US you’ve probably got their book mailed about the “Sunday Law”….
Advent owns most of the Hospitals and urgent care facilities in my area. Walking through the hospital, there are a constant religious references. One has a huge painting of a person dying in bed, their family and doctor gathered around, with a brightly painted and shining Jesus among them.
I've got a problem with a hospital who still considers divine intervention to be a viable medical strategy. What is this, the fucking Middle Ages?
Organized medical care has a long history of being carried out by members of religious orders, with formal doctors and nurses being pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.
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To wit: there’s a NY state law that makes it illegal for state officials to help shit-ass states like Texas follow through on legal threats like this within the context of the NY legal system. This is that law working as intended.
Or more succinctly: lick my taint, Ken Paxton, you fucking imbecilic psychopath.
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This is basically an extension of the law that compelled non-slave states to return escaped slaves to the owners in Southern states.
No state should be compelled to follow an immoral law in another state. Texas can't force NY to refuse to treat a patient, any more than NY can force Texas to provide an abortion.
Fugitive slave act redux
Hochul, responding to the latest request from Paxton’s office, claimed he was attempting to dictate “the personal decisions of women across America.”
“Our response to their baseless claim is clear: no way in hell. New York won’t be bullied,” she said in a prepared statement. “And I’ll never back down from this fight.”
Ken Paxton is a dickless moron. Tell your friends.
Sorry shitstain, other parts of the country actually allow women to have rights.
Go fail at saving some kids from drowning and let the civilized people do their thing.
Wouldn't the Texas requirement allow New York to challenge all the southern bullshit, like religion in schools, book bans, etc?
Do they want to open that can of worms?
Also, this makes as much sense as North Korea trying to get the US to abide by their laws.
“While I’m not entirely sure how things work in Texas, here in New York, a rejection means the matter is closed,” Bruck wrote in a letter to Texas officials.
I imagine Paxton blew a gasket over that. Lmao.
Fugitive Slave Acts all over again.
"State's rights for me, federalism for you."
- every conservative state
Texas politicians are so shit they need to infect other states.
Get your shit together Texas.
They won't.
We'll just have to do what we've always done and sit back and watch Texans continually punch themselves in the face because they can't figure things out.
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Poor boy has had a rough week, first his wife says she wants a divorce because of his adultery and now he finds out he's impotent in a different state.
Being a dog fearing christian is tough in this day and age, especially when you're actually a shitbag.
There's absolutely no way in hell that it's just adultery, not when she explicitly says that she can't remain and still hold on to her 'Christian' values. Paxton has done a fuckton of things things that explicitly go against what Jesus taught in the four gospels, and against damn near everything that Paul wrote as well, so it's gotta be more than just extra-marital sex.
Why are texan men so red and have squeaky voices?
Alcoholism? Not sure on the voices.
They're low-T soyboys?
Definitely part of it, never met a Texan man who didn't rage and throw a shitfit over the most minor of inconveniences.
I used to do regular driving trips to Mexico from NC and I swear to god everything was always fine in every state I crossed. People were nice, no police problems, roads well maintained, no traffic and quick city bypasses.
But when I cross into Texas suddenly everything would turn to shit. The people were shitty, the roads were shitty, the radio stations were shitty, the police were shitty, Houston was a massive cluster fuck of detours and pot holes, the heat, the smells, literally EVERYTHING was just a bit shittier there than anywhere else. It was always a blessing to get across the Rio Grande and back into a civilized country.
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He looks like a had a mild allergic reaction to seafood
Sorry, we don't handle verdicts from rogue nations
Not rhetorical question: why don't more people buy and sell abortion pills on the dark web?
Because then it is not regulated. Meaning you'll have scammers selling fake abortion pills, which will do nothing. Or even worse, pills with something else that could get you addicted.
People are assholes, especially in a capitalist system. Regulation is necessary here.
pills with something else that could get you addicted.
It's hard to get addicted to an unknown substance you've taken unwillingly and don't know what it is in order to get another hit.
I'd be more considered about psychos selling literal poison.
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as a drug addict let me tell you that black markets are not something to strive for economically
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