Texas might close nearly all abortion clinics.

[ßringer]

Absolutely pathetic.

Last I heard, there were only 724 operational abortion clinics within the United States. But to listen to the way these misogynistic conservative ****s rattle on about it, you'd think there was an abortion clinic on every street corner in America.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Yea because that's going to stop women in Texas getting abortions. Texas is one dumbass backwards state.

[Tay Roc]

My con law is rusty, but I'll make a go at it.

This bill might violate substantive due process rights under the 14th Amendment. Pursuant to Planned Parenthood v. Casey a law is unconstitutional as an undue burden on a woman’s right to an abortion before fetal viability, if the law places a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking to exercise that right. Casey overruled, or re-wrote, the Roe v. Wade trimester system. The only part that seems unconstitutional is that it says that after 20 weeks, a woman can no longer have an abortion. The precedent set in Casey says that the state does not have a legitimate interest in a fetus until after it is viable. Viability is not limited to a pre-set amount of time, as fetuses develop at different rates. Pre-viability, the state cannot infringe on a person's substantive due process rights, it can only regulate under the undue burden test. Under the undue burden test, a state can try to persuade not to have an abortion, as long as it does not impose an “undue burden” Therefore, trying to limit or set the "cut-off" date at 20-weeks would be unconstitutional and against Casey. It virtually reinstates the Roe holding, which is outdated and antiquated (especially scientifically), hence why Casey refined the trimester system, or eliminated it.

Furthermore, one could challenge the constitutionality because Casey also articulated that a state can outright limit/ban abortions post-viability, BUT it must reserve the option for an abortion when there is a medical emergency (i.e. the life of the mother is at risk). If this aspect of Casey is not met then this bill is unconstitutional. The article doesn't say anything regarding this critical issue.

Aside from that, I think the bill is good. Politically, I don't think its the best maneuver, but it is Tejas.

[BTTAG145]

These same conservatives are actually shooting themselves in the foot.
What happens in a couple of years when all of these low income families who usually vote democrat start repopulating the state? What a bunch of idiots.

[M.O.B]

instead of ethnic cleanings they are trying to promote ethnic growth of the white communites, might be a reach but maybe they trying to up the white population, whites get abortions at a higher percentage rate then any other ethnic group and minorities are reproducing 5 to 1 (at least for children under 5 years of age), which means in 20+ years minorities will be the majority of the country's youth population and couple that with the fact that more whites are dying then are being born might be fuel and motivation enough to try and bottleneck the this dramatic demographic changes that are going to happen in the next 20 years. These are just the hard facts.

"For the first time, half (49.9%) of American children under the age of five are of a racial or ethnic minority, according to the US Census Bureau.

The agency projected that in the US, whites would become a minority in the under-five age group this year or next."*

source - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22895162

The number of non-Hispanic white Americans who died in the year ended June 2012 exceeded the number who were born during that period by about 12,400, the first "natural decrease" for this group. That's according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Thursday and an analysis of separate data from the National Center for Health Statistics by demographer Kenneth Johnson at the University of New Hampshire.

source - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...247829092.html

Non-Hispanic white women account for 36% of abortions,

source - http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
source -

[cupocity303]

The good news is that they can always make up for this by ratcheting up their states executions.

[~AK49~]

These same conservatives are actually shooting themselves in the foot.
What happens in a couple of years when all of these low income families who usually vote democrat start repopulating the state? What a bunch of idiots.

'Its okay to murder because it will save society money'-liberals

[VG_Addict]

Good news:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...p_ref=politics

[Russian Crushin]

The good news is that they can always make up for this by ratcheting up their states executions.

Yessir! Nothing speaks "pro-life" like the death penalty!

[Grand Champ]

lol.

No problem... We'll get the baby out the good ol' fashion alley way: