Hours before the ruling, a group representing the woman, whose fetus received a fatal diagnosis, said she was leaving Texas for an abortion.

The court ruled that the lower court made a mistake in ruling that the woman, Kate Cox, who is more than 20 weeks pregnant, was entitled to a medical exception.

…

Ms. Cox asked the lower court for approval after she learned that her fetus had a fatal condition, and after several trips to the emergency room.

In short, the life or health exemptions to abortion bans in Republican-controlled states are meaningless.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    21·
    11 months ago

    As an outsider, it is absolutely wild that we’re seeing refugees within the same allegedly developed country. I’m more convinced everyday the United states is a just a bunch of countries in a trench coat.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      12·
      11 months ago

      It’s not really a new phenomenon. The book Albion’s Seed goes into detail about how the country was put together by different groups of people with very different ideas about what it should be. Those fundamental disagreements define a lot of modern political conflict within the US.

    • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      11 months ago

      It says it on the tin. United States. However, as with any group of entities all striving for power and being driven apart by outside forces, not so united these days.