Ken Paxton issues threat after judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, can get an abortion
The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has threatened to prosecute any doctor who provides an abortion to Kate Cox, a woman with a non-viable pregnancy, advising hospitals to ignore a court order issued on Thursday allowing her to get the procedure.
The rightwing Paxton issued the warning to three Houston-area hospitals after a Texas judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, may obtain an abortion under the narrow medical exceptions offered by the state bans.
In a brazen dismissal of the court’s decision, Paxton wrote that the judge’s order “will not insulate hospitals, doctors or anyone else from civil and criminal liability”.
Paxton also wrote that the hospital where Cox obtains an abortion “may be liable for negligent credentialing the physician” who performs the procedure.
An attorney general is “advising hospitals to ignore a court order”.
Read that sentence again.
He is supposed to be an officer of the court. It is his job to uphold the law, regardless of how he feels about it personally. The judge ruled explicitly on this particular woman’s specific situation - there is no reasonable room for interpretation here.
This man is putting his own opinion above the rule of law. He is radically unsuited for his job and deserves to be disbarred.
This guy is under an FBI investigation and felony fraud charges. He is ignoring the court because he holds a criminal mindset and has zero respect for the law.
GOOD. Thank you for the context. I hope he’s indicted soon.
He was indicted 8 years ago. How he has managed to avoid a trial shows an astounding level of corruption in Texas. Fuck this guy and all the sycophants that protect and enable him.
This guy is a fucking crook. I thought they were going to disbar him.
Fuck that guy. I hope his dick falls off
Won’t someone rid us of this meddlesome clown’s penis?
If karma were real, it’d be long gone
Some of these republicans have never even heard of angry mobs pulling people who destroy their lives out of their homes and returning the favor. Just fucking with people with impunity.
Man I’d love to see lynching brought back for these scum.
They’re pushing for it, don’t be surprised when it happens.
They’re going to push us until we break, and then act like we’re the animals when they’ve caged us. Vote in your local elections. Find these fuckers on the streets and call them out. Make them scared to take a shit at their local organic grocery chain.
Unfortunately the result will be martial law and excuses to consolidate power. Making you mad enough to act out violently is part of the plan to take away pesky things like elections.
Thats happening regardless. Your rights already have an expiration date. Whatever perceived loses you may incur, have already been lost. The only question worth asking is are we goong to kill fascism in the cradle or allow it a place in our society? Its that serious.
Emotionally I’m with you, but I don’t want that to be back on the table where anyone can decide to use it again. Because you know the type of people who would use it first.
In Texas you’re more likely to see this happen to any doctor who steps up, unfortunately. With the tacit support if the state, of course.
They’re going to kill this woman, they’re going to do it on national TV… and then they’re going to cheer about it
Republicans are fucking ghouls.
So hold him in contempt of court. Otherwise he’ll be emboldened and do it more
He doesn’t care about a baby that won’t even be born, he just wants her to die for being a woman who had sex with someone who wasn’t him.
It’s not about her having sex with someone that wasn’t him- I guarantee he couldn’t care less about that.
What he does care about is that he needs to control her every move and decision along with his voting base can’t think for themselves and need to be controlled by scum just like this piece of shit.
They’re all cowards that won’t think for themselves.
It’s literally about fear and control. They keep their base afraid.
Why do people like AG Paxton keep trying to insert themselves between people like this woman and God?
What a shit state to be in.
One of the only things of any value to come from the Trump administration, is that these cowards are no longer worried about saying the quiet thing out loud.
It’s like cockroaches that aren’t afraid of the light anymore- but still love bing cockroaches.
You guys remember Death Panels, the anti-Obamacare cry that legislatures want to get between you and your doctor to decide who can get care?
Every Republican who jumped on that bandwagon needs to eat crow and realize they flipped like a bitch when it suited their anti-abortion argument.
They’re not gonna eat crow; they knew they were referring to themselves.
I just wish all these fucks would get wrekt, evil hoofwanking thunder cunts
It’s not too late to abort Ken Paxton.
Where is the armed mob outside of his office demanded the defense of freedom?
Greatest country on earth ladies and gentlemen, land of the free my arse.
Look at this idiot, he even looks like a republican.
