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What "lifesaving medical procedures" do you mean exactly? You can't possibly mean abortion, since saving the mother's life is one of the exceptions to Texas's abortion ban.

>>joseph+(OP)
Errr no, that was always meant to be a fake empty promise to make the restrictions sound more palatable.

This was proven by the woman who couldn’t get an abortion despite her fetus having a terminal defect. After courts initially ruled she could get one, the Texas AG fought it and threatened to prosecute any doctor who did it, and was able to overturn the ruling.

In practice, Texas doesn’t allow abortions period. Guidelines are ambiguous and the AG will prosecute so doctors risk jail and losing their career.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-woman-who-sought-emer...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-can-ban-emergency-abo...

>>joseph+(OP)
A woman recently had to leave the state to get an abortion which her doctor argued was required to protect her life and maintain her future fertility. The Texas Supreme Court stepped in to deny her the right to the procedure in Texas: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/11/texas-aborti...

>>joseph+(OP)
In a recent case of someone living in TX learning that their fetus had trisomy 18, there was a whole legal case that had to be fought, and when Judge Gamble ruled that terminating the pregnancy could proceed in this case, TX AG Ken Paxton filed an emergency petition to ask the state supreme court to overturn the ruling, and that blocked Judge Gamble's ruling. Meantime, the woman's condition was deteriorating enough that she left the state to get her healthcare needs met.

So, what can we expect when TX is making it this perilous to provide basic healthcare for such a large percentage of its population? More of the same, I'd argue.

If you care about your sisters/daughters/spouses' access to healthcare, consider other states.

>>joseph+(OP)
Any time a woman gives birth, there is a potential that her life could be at risk. I very recently had a friend who was expecting, but the baby didn't have a brain stem. Doctors couldn't abort the pregnancy within the State without fear of legal action, so they carried the baby to term only to have it die merely minutes after birth.

That is not the life I would want for a child, nor expecting parents. To live with the notion that your baby will die as soon as it exits the womb for months is completely unbearable, let alone just the loss of the child. Months and months of anticipating death. My friends found solace in their religion, and thought the best thing for the child was to be blessed by a religious leader after birth, but not everyone has the mental strength or willpower to do what they did.

This Texas law is an abomination to unborn children and women.

>>joseph+(OP)
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html