For those who failed to exercise their Constitutional right to read the entire article, this quote from Judge Millet may clarify their thinking. “The government has insisted that it may categorically blockade exercise of her constitutional right unless this child (like some kind of legal Houdini) figures her own way out of detention” by returning home “to the abuse from which she fled” or by finding a sponsor, Millet said. “That is constitutionally untenable, as the en banc court agrees.” So, it appears that the en banc court agreed that she had a right to flee abuse (details sealed by the court) and get an abortion here (since it is apparently illegal in Catholic Mexico).
So some questions. Since details are sealed how can we know that it is her “best interest to NOT involve a parent (not the case).” We don’t know if it was her parent(s) abusing her or allowing her abuse, or selling here body to others or whatever. We the public have no information about her case. Perhaps she made a MATURE decision to escape a horrible situation, or a pregnancy by rape. Perhaps traveling ALONE through Drug-infested areas of Mexico was a MATURE decision compared with staying in her home situation. We don’t KNOW, the facts are sealed by the court. Perhaps you or the people (men) in Texas are against any abortions for fear that if you/they raped someone, the victim would have the right to remove your/their parasite from her body.
If I sound so militant on the subject it is because I have counseled people who had a drunk mother who didn’t notice that one son was forcing the other son to be raped by a dog, or because a woman’s abuse started with a rape at age two and was eventually sexually abused by both parents, all brothers and their friends. So yes I am angry and don’t plan to stop being angry when people are abused/neglected by those they should trust AND the law, which fortunately in this case was corrected by the en bank court.
Her problems were considered by the Court. But, they shouldn’t have been. She’s not a citizen.
Sorry, but, as the saying goes, “Hard cases make bad law.”
You’re talking about all of her details, which we don’t know. I’m saying, we don’t need to know.
So, we can agree that WE DON’T KNOW all the facts in this case. But, we do know that just about ANY JUDGE will give out a Judicial Bypass - the weak-kneed loophole written into this legislation (I’m amazed at how the squishy Moderate Republicans gets even squishier when they get to Austin) - just to thwart a law that is designed to protect underage girls from harming their own child.
God forbid, we the people of Texas (by the way, there are plenty of both “men” and women against murdering unborn children) want to ensure the Federal government (who loves the idea of murdering unborn children) isn’t trying to find another brick to weaken a wall built to protect...CHILDREN!
I don’t give a rats-ass about YOUR outrage. I was personally molested and raped from the age of 10 until I was 17, it still doesn’t give me the right to KILL UNBORN CHILDREN! Apparently, and SADLY, you think it does!
Lastly, I’m done discussing this, because obviously you are holier than I, because you “care” so much...I mean, you said so, therefore it MUST be!
Don't you realize that FReepers exercise that basic right, found in the fine print on some little-noticed footnote in the Constitution, on a daily basis? We have got some Constitutional scholars here! LOL!
Take care, FRiend. :) Julie