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No, I"m not. I'm expressing an opinion on a general topic, not speaking specifically about this case. This specific case was just a trigger for me to comment generally.
The article is paywalled, and I cannot read it, so I'm determining my opinion based on what I read in the summary of this post ...
She wouldn't have been arrested for dispensing legally obtainable pills, normaly. The patient would just order the meds online and take them themselves.
Someone else weaponizing laws for political gains is a different conversation.
Not for the mid/late-term ones.
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So, you don't have anything relevant to this conversation. And there's quite a few ways to get around a paywall these days; that's a terrible excuse, just makes you sound insincere from the get go.
Here's a suggestion: how about instead of forming your opinion based on known incomplete data, you decide instead to just, like, not form an opinion at all until you get that information, much less spout off based on your own speculation.
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They made abortion illegal in Texas. She performed abortions in the manner that is legal elsewhere, using a procedure that matches the standard of care where it is legal, under training and qualifications that are sufficient elsewhere. So she was arrested for dispensing pills normally and in the manner that they are regulated elsewhere. This is the safe and legal method elsewhere, and was the safe and legal method in Texas until recently.
Comparing it to back alley abortions is intentionally misleading to the point of dishonesty.
She...didn't perform any of those. I'm going off of the facts of what she is being accused of doing in the criminal charges.
You say the same thing to everyone else who's responding with comments in this post?
Instead of blaming a victim, why don't you get on the case of whoever made the post, for having an incomplete summary instead.
Please show me in the summary for the article that this post was about where it states that?
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The summary contained what the person who posted it thought was important. You thought something else was important and then started making up conjecture about that, instead of looking it up yourself.
This is clown behavior. You're not a victim of anything but your own ignorance. Digging in your heels, intentionally obtuse to the facts of the story you want to speculate about, is not productive. If you didn't know, you're welcome to look up the facts yourself, instead of claiming in multiple comments throughout this thread that this lady was a midwife performing surgical abortions, and that the actual charged conduct compares to the days of back alley abortions.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/houston-texas-midwife-arrested-abortions-clinics/285-b028b728-0db8-4e4f-9255-7f6f11c77f47
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/texas-midwife-abortion-investigation-update-20227667.php
https://www.thecut.com/article/texas-abortion-arrest-maria-margarita-rojas-midwife.html
You're welcome.
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