Death by a Thousand Cuts? They Will NOT Let Roe Go-Ever!
Idaho's near-total abortion ban challenged by Justice Department
Was I am in some kind of fugue state a few weeks ago and just imagined that the Supreme Court sent the entire issue of abortion back to the states, definitively overruling Roe v. Wade? Did that actually happen, or am I just dreaming? If it did happen, is it possible that the entire Department of [In]Justice and their swarms of lawyers just might have missed it, or been at the beach that day?
From the article:
The law bans all abortions except for cases of incest or rape that are reported to law enforcement, or when a physician determines "in his good faith medical judgment and based on the facts known to the physician at the time, that the abortion was necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman."
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday argued that Idaho's law would violate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which requires doctors to provide stabilizing treatment.
The Department of Health and Human Services issued “guidance” to health care providers:
…that states physicians "must" provide an abortion if it is the "stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve" an emergency medical condition.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit challenging that guidance, arguing the Biden administration is "flagrantly disregarding the legislative and democratic process" by mandating "that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians must perform abortions."
By the way, that word “guidance” in this context, especially when used by a member of the Biden Criminal Organization, a/k/a the Biden Administration, recalls the famous quip of President Reagan: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
As any lawyer can tell you, there is no way to predict which way this challenge is going to go when it is turned over to a Federal Court, as we have seen most painfully in the actions of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia with regard to the January 6 defendants. However, to this lawyer, it seems clear this is just the opening salvo marking the beginning of multiple lawfare attacks on any State whose legislature actually acts like the Supreme Court really meant what it said: Roe v. Wade is overruled and the entire matter is to be decided by the States through its duly elected representatives. Period. Full Stop.
The mid-terms truly cannot get here soon enough; they may not be a total panacea but they’re all we have to hold onto at this point.
God Bless America!