I've been to McAllen, Texas years ago. There isn't much there. It is a transition area into Mexico for transport companies. There are farms as well. There is a hospital, so there is no reason why an abortion clinic cannot have admitting privileges in case there is an emergency.
But, that isn't really the purpose for this entry. The women in the region of Southern Texas are now at risk due to a panel of judges closing down abortion clinics. The only place in Mexico that can provide abortions is Mexico City.
HOUSTON -- A three-judge panel (click here) of the federal appeals court in New Orleans lifted an injunction Thursday mostly allowing the state’s new abortion restrictions to take effect.
The decision came three days after a federal judge in Texas blocked some of the restrictions that he found unconstitutional, including a provision requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and limits on medication-induced abortions.
But the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with state officials who asked for an emergency stay so that the new law could take effect pending a final decision.
The panel found the state offered ample evidence that the admitting privileges requirement protected women’s health.
“The district court’s conclusion that a state has no rational basis for requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital is but one step removed from repudiating the longstanding recognition by the [U.S.] Supreme Court that a state may constitutionally require that only a physician may perform an abortion,” Circuit Judge Priscilla R. Owen wrote, citing a Montana law that says only licensed physicians can perform abortions....
The reason there was only a panel of judges is because Texas stated they were savings women's lives with admitting privileges. Eventually, this case will work itself through the courts. Something has to happen here to resolve the problems in Texas. Women do desperate things and they are doing desperate things as I write this, especially now.
Allie Jones
Jul 11, 2013
...Texas women (click here) in the lower Rio Grande Valley have been illegally purchasing Cytotec, a stomach ulcer drug that can also induce a miscarriage, at an open-air bazaar in McAllen, Texas. Cost is the main motivator for using the drug. Women can buy Cytotec for about $40, while a pharmaceutical abortion at the nearest clinic costs $550. Texas's 24-hour waiting period for an abortion prices many women out of traveling to a clinic. The state's decreased funding for birth control (as of 2011) has also contributed to the prevalence of the drug....
I don't know how many times I have stated this before, but, the fact of the matter is that abortion law protects women's lives. This desperation in McAllen, Texas is PROOF of the extreme women seek in order to stop an unwanted pregnancy.
Abortion is not about babies, it is about the lives of women. Abortions save women's lives. That is a fact. There is absolutely no reason to try to stop it. Many of those women have families and work to support them. If women are forced to seek a resolve to an unwanted pregnancy by their own means, they will die. With those deaths are the deaths of wives and mothers. There is absolutely no reason to end a woman's life because of political ideology or religious extremism.
This panel of judges did the wrong thing and that is very unfortunate.
...A panel (click here) of three Republican judges, all of whom were appointed by President George W. Bush, granted the state of Texas’ request Wednesday night to reinstate a law that will force many of the state’s abortion clinics to close their doors. The order, authored by Judge Priscilla Owen, grants a temporary stay of a lower court judge’s decision blocking a provision of Texas law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in order to perform abortions at clinics....
But, that isn't really the purpose for this entry. The women in the region of Southern Texas are now at risk due to a panel of judges closing down abortion clinics. The only place in Mexico that can provide abortions is Mexico City.
October 31, 2013, 5:49 p.m.
The decision came three days after a federal judge in Texas blocked some of the restrictions that he found unconstitutional, including a provision requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and limits on medication-induced abortions.
But the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with state officials who asked for an emergency stay so that the new law could take effect pending a final decision.
The panel found the state offered ample evidence that the admitting privileges requirement protected women’s health.
“The district court’s conclusion that a state has no rational basis for requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital is but one step removed from repudiating the longstanding recognition by the [U.S.] Supreme Court that a state may constitutionally require that only a physician may perform an abortion,” Circuit Judge Priscilla R. Owen wrote, citing a Montana law that says only licensed physicians can perform abortions....
The reason there was only a panel of judges is because Texas stated they were savings women's lives with admitting privileges. Eventually, this case will work itself through the courts. Something has to happen here to resolve the problems in Texas. Women do desperate things and they are doing desperate things as I write this, especially now.
Jul 11, 2013
...Texas women (click here) in the lower Rio Grande Valley have been illegally purchasing Cytotec, a stomach ulcer drug that can also induce a miscarriage, at an open-air bazaar in McAllen, Texas. Cost is the main motivator for using the drug. Women can buy Cytotec for about $40, while a pharmaceutical abortion at the nearest clinic costs $550. Texas's 24-hour waiting period for an abortion prices many women out of traveling to a clinic. The state's decreased funding for birth control (as of 2011) has also contributed to the prevalence of the drug....
I don't know how many times I have stated this before, but, the fact of the matter is that abortion law protects women's lives. This desperation in McAllen, Texas is PROOF of the extreme women seek in order to stop an unwanted pregnancy.
Abortion is not about babies, it is about the lives of women. Abortions save women's lives. That is a fact. There is absolutely no reason to try to stop it. Many of those women have families and work to support them. If women are forced to seek a resolve to an unwanted pregnancy by their own means, they will die. With those deaths are the deaths of wives and mothers. There is absolutely no reason to end a woman's life because of political ideology or religious extremism.
This panel of judges did the wrong thing and that is very unfortunate.
...A panel (click here) of three Republican judges, all of whom were appointed by President George W. Bush, granted the state of Texas’ request Wednesday night to reinstate a law that will force many of the state’s abortion clinics to close their doors. The order, authored by Judge Priscilla Owen, grants a temporary stay of a lower court judge’s decision blocking a provision of Texas law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in order to perform abortions at clinics....
