Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion law, that's nice now go and read why they struck it down. I don't agree this was a "woman's" issue but a real safety issue.
Than read "Will there ever be a 'Joan's Law?'"
I'm thinking the "supremes" just stepped on their cranks....... not the smartest folks on the block.
Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion law
Published June 27, 2016
FoxNews.com
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Texas law regulating abortion clinics, delivering a 5-3 decision that was the high court’s first major foray into the abortion issue in nine years.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion for the court, with Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joining him. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.
"We agree with the District Court that the surgical center requirement, like the admitting-privileges requirement, provides few, if any, health benefits for women, poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions, and constitutes an 'undue burden' on their constitutional right to do so," Breyer wrote.
President Obama said in a statement that he was "pleased" with the outcome.
"As the brief filed by the Solicitor General makes clear and as the Court affirmed today, these restrictions harm women's health and place an unconstitutional obstacle in the path of a woman's reproductive freedom," Obama said. "We remain strongly committed to the protection of women's health, including protecting a woman's access to safe, affordable health care and her right to determine her own future."
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, in a series of Tweets, hailed the decision as "a victory for women" -- but said there's more work to be done.
"This fight isn't over: The next president has to protect women's health. Women won't be 'punished' for exercising their basic rights. -H," Clinton tweeted.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott decried the decision in a statement Monday.
"The decision erodes States’ lawmaking authority to safeguard the health and safety of women and subjects more innocent life to being lost," Abbott said. "Texas' goal is to protect innocent life, while ensuring the highest health and safety standards for women."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...l?intcmp=hpbt4
Will there ever be a 'Joan's Law?'
By Pamela K. Browne
Published June 24, 2016
FoxNews.com
The legacy of the late comedienne Joan Rivers may be so much more than amusing memories and auctioned personal items if her daughter, Melissa, can help push through new laws governing oversight of outpatient surgical clinics.
Joan Rivers died Sept. 4, 2014, seven days after slipping into a coma after multiple doctors committed an apparent series of egregious errors during a medical procedure that went terribly wrong at Yorkville Endoscopy, an outpatient surgical clinic in Manhattan.
Melissa sued the doctors and the clinic for medical malpractice and in May, the suit was settled out of court for an award estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars.
Currently, some 5,400 outpatient surgical clinics compete with hospitals nationwide for patients undergoing procedures that can include colonoscopies, oral surgery and some plastic surgeries. These types of clinics are popular with patients and doctors alike but oversight is murky at best.
In an interview with Fox News, Melissa said reform is long overdue.
“I am not saying we shouldn't have these ‘surgical centers,’" she said. “I do think these serve a really important purpose in dealing with medical costs and outpatient surgeries, and there are things that you do not need to be in a hospital for. But you need to know that you are going to get, that you are going to be safe.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/24...joans-law.html
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