Current Texas law forces doctors to choose the rights of an undocumented non-citizen fetus over the right to life and self-defense of citizen mothers.
Roe v Wade fell 5 years ago and it’s not coming back. The abortion as healthcare argument has failed and is actively getting women hurt and killed today. Instead, we should look for other rights that abortion falls under that have actual court precedents. The healthcare argument will not gain any traction over the next 4 years.
If a woman were sitting in a chair in a doctor’s office being attacked by a person outside of her, a doctor protecting her from the attack is clearly acting in self-defense. Under the castle doctrine, a father protecting his son from an attacker within their home, office, or legally occupied space is still considered self-defense even though the attacker was not attacking the father. The relationship between family doesn’t matter, it’s just for example. Why is the same standard not applied to a person attacking her from inside?
It’s a shame that Kate Cox had to travel out of Texas, the State of Self-Defense, in order to exercise her right to self-defense to kill a person attacking her.
Currently, the State of Texas pre-empts doctor’s and pregnant mother’s rights to self-defense with a law that makes it impossible for a doctor to know with their best possible judgement if aborting a fetus will be legal or not. That’s precisely the intent of the law, but can you imagine if we held cops to the same standard of self-defense? I’m pretty sure not questioning cop’s decisions “in the moment” is a huge Republican talking point. Why not doctors?
If you had to defend abortion in court knowing it was simultaneously healthcare and self-defense, but that there are no supporting court cases for rights to healthcare and a plethora for rights to self-defense, what would you choose?
We will never have Roe v Wade back. Dems lost it, couldn’t get it back under Biden, and now there will likely be a national abortion ban. I hear we can’t go with self-defense because it’s not as good as Roe, but currently we have 0% of Roe and getting 50% of it back or more seems like a good idea for the women who will die otherwise.
If, in the end, the Supreme Court says you don’t have a right to self-defense (since it’s not listed in the Constitution), I want to see what the Republicans say about the 2nd Amendment in that regard.