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hw's avatar

At this rate, there won't be a single civil liberty that can't be infringed by the state as long as its caveated with 'protecting the children'.

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It's not great that our constitutional litigation advocates have spent the last 35 years sorting themselves into special teams. Because this order, as odd and appalling as it may appear to Lambda and/or NCLR, is nothing more than a greatest-hits of TRAP laws.

This care is a fraud on the consumer because she cannot understand what she's doing? Check.

This care harms the patient, but instead of the medical board pursuing the doctor's license another entity is regulating the care? We got that.

Doctors are required to tell patients specific lies to give them the care they request? Check that too.

The only money they left on the table was requiring hospital privileges to write and dispense a pill that is commonly used around the world and has no immediate effects.

There's nothing innovative about it, but it is a horrifying expansion of the radical right into using laws and regulations--the parts of the state even further from democracy than the courts--to incompetently practice medicine on a new group of Americans. We're probably going to need a response to the use of these proven tools to limit abortions, tested and perfected under 'Casey', that calls on the ideas and experiences of the reproductive rights movement.

Damn, I'm tired.

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