{"id":176781,"date":"2020-03-23T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/23\/of-course-texas-joins-in\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:30:00","slug":"of-course-texas-joins-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/23\/of-course-texas-joins-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course Texas Joins In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining with Ohio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/texas-ohio-orders-on-surgeries-prompt-new-abortion-fight\/2020\/03\/23\/a5d4c1c2-6d20-11ea-a156-0048b62cdb51_story.html\">Texas is using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to ban abortions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can we please give it back to Mexico?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The governor and attorney general of Texas are moving to ban most abortions in the state during the coronavirus outbreak, declaring they don\u2019t qualify as essential surgeries.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that the order issued over the weekend by Gov. Greg Abbott barred \u201cany type of abortion that is not medically necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Failure to comply with the order can result in penalties of up to $1,000 or 180 days of jail time, Paxton said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cNo one is exempt from the governor\u2019s executive order on medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures, including abortion providers,\u201d Paxton said. \u201cThose who violate the governor\u2019s order will be met with the full force of the law.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Amid the moves by Ohio and Texas, a coalition of anti-abortion groups urged its allies across the nation to ask governors to ban most abortions on the grounds they were not essential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf abortion is a \u2018choice\u2019 then abortion is an elective procedure,\u201d said Mark Harrington, president of the anti-abortion group Created Equal.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These people are beneath contempt.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the opposition, it is the enemy, and it should be treated as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining with Ohio, Texas is using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse to ban abortions. Can we please give it back to Mexico? The governor and attorney general of Texas are moving to ban most abortions in the state during the coronavirus outbreak, declaring they don\u2019t qualify as essential surgeries. Attorney General Ken Paxton said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[551,368,364,387,407,572,374],"class_list":["post-176781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-justice","tag-pandemic","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}