Legal Horseplay
The most recent case this comic refers to, of course, is the appeals court verdict upholding Texas’s medically unnecessary abortion clinic regulations, which shuttered numerous providers around the state. In a perfect inversion of the law’s intent, the judges ruled that “the incidental effect of making it more difficult or more expensive to procure an abortion cannot be enough to invalidate it.” Yes, don’t mind that little thing about the clinics closing — just an incidental side effect!
11.11.2013 | Posted in Weekly Cartoon
Tags: abortion, courts, law, race, racism, reproductive justice, TRAP laws, voter ID, voting
Tags: abortion, courts, law, race, racism, reproductive justice, TRAP laws, voter ID, voting
