“The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to stay a recent lower court ruling that would have shuttered all but nine abortion clinics in Texas.
The high court will allow the clinics to remain open while it decides whether to hear an appeal over a Texas law that requires all abortions to take place in ambulatory surgical centers — essentially, mini-hospitals. Justice Anthony Kennedy joined with his four liberal colleagues — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — to keep the clinics afloat. Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservatives Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito opposed the stay.
A wave of new abortion restrictions in Texas has already forced roughly half of the state’s 41 clinics to shut down over the past four years. If the new law regulating clinics is allowed to go into effect, the number of abortion providers will dwindle to just nine, concentrated in four urban, higher-income areas of the state. The Huffington Post reported in 2014 that low-income women in Texas who cannot access abortion providers are already resorting to illegal, medically unsafe methods to end their pregnancies.” *
Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! & Turner Classic Movies; http://www.twitter.com/BenMank77) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss on The Young Turks. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
*Read more here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/29/texas-abortion-restrictions_n_7690656.html
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Comments
And if we as Americans truly believe in our constitution and the basis of it,you have the right to your religion and I have the right to be shielded from it and not persecuted by it.
In my opinion some prolife campaign s are relgious persecutors.!
Ana s comment ”freedom from religion”
I think most people foregeth.s. history! And they allow people to b.s. them. The pilgrims came to this land because of religious persecution. It was on that basis that their laws were form and influenced our current system. Our country was not built on religion! (Despite a certain conservative re imaginings) This country, my country and your country was built on freedom of religion, just as the pilgrims intended.
In addition, the founding fathers, yes the men in the powdered wigs and wooden teeth. Many of those people were deiests. They valued monotheism and were well acquainted with it drawbacks and so the state minus religion was born. So essentially for the groups of people that established this land and country religion was kinda like the redheaded step child to governance.
Sorry abt the long windedness!