Alternate headline: Texas Supreme Court Decides to Increase Risk of Trans Youth Suicides
Seriously, this decision will kill kids.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t wanna know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.
Conservatives don’t give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life, Pro-life. These people aren’t pro-life, they’re killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they’ll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it?
They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women. They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a broodmare for the state.
-George Carlin 1996
Fuck abott and his goons, if hell exists then you worthless pieces of shrek related bags of cat pisswill be the kings and queens of it.
pieces of shrek related bags of cat piss
A little off-topic, but am I missing a joke here?
I just fucking hate hate hate abott
Parents rights! Wait, not like that
Don't you know? They're all about parents rights until it's something they disagree with. Then they make up some nonsense to say it's abuse.
Conservatism is a plague. History has shown us that pacifism cannot cure this disease. Conservatism responds only to force.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Legal advocates who sued on behalf of the families and doctors, including the American Civil Liberties Union, called the law and the high court’s decision Thursday “cruel.“
The order from the all-Republican Supreme Court lifting the injunction and allowing the law to take effect did not explain the decision.
The Texas law would prevent transgender minors from accessing hormone therapies, puberty blockers and transition surgeries, even though medical experts say such surgical procedures are rarely performed on children.
“Protecting children from harmful and dangerous gender transition surgeries and puberty blockers is in the best interests of the child and something we all agree on.”
The lawsuit argued the Texas law will have devastating consequences for transgender teens if they are unable to obtain critical treatment recommended by their physicians and parents.
Several doctors who treat transgender children said they worry their patients will suffer deteriorating mental health, which could possibly lead to suicide, if they are denied safe and effective treatment.
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What kind of ghoul wants to keep life-saving medical care away from people who need it?
A Republican.
Aside from making the obscenely wealthy even richer, it's practically their only policy plank (and that's only because they need the support of hateful bigots to enact their wealth transfers).