A 31 year old Texas woman is the victim of Texas' medieval and cruel anti-abortion laws, as she tries to terminate a nonviable pregnancy. The woman, Kate Cox, petitioned the district court in Travis Co., Texas to issue a temporary restraining order to allow her to terminate the pregnancy, which threatens her life. The district court agreed, but Texas' vile and corrupt state Attorney General, Ken Paxton, decided to take the matter to the Texas Supreme Court, asking it to vacate the lower court order and apply penalties to Cox and any hospital that performed the emergency abortion. The Texas Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on Paxton's attempt to interfere in Ms. Cox's dangerous pregnancy.
This wanton cruelty was unleashed nationwide when the right-wing Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, permitting states like Texas, run by fanatical, reactionary forced birth hacks, to adopt laws forcing women to carry a fetus to term, often without regard to the woman's health or whether the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. Although the last two cycles of elections have proven that policy to be wildly unpopular among voters, die hard Christofascists refuse to get the message.
Earlier this year, hardline Trumpist Paxton narrowly escaped impeachment by members of his own party in the Republican-controlled legislature in Texas over his corruption in office, but when Christofascists think they're doing the Lord's work, they'll take any charlatan and crook into their fold.
(photo: Forced birther Paxton and Ms. Cox. KWTX)
