Who determines Kate Cox’s health care

So here we are. It’s 2023 and Texas has elected an all-Republican Supreme Court that is now asserting in a written opinion that the judiciary shouldn’t be deciding reproductive rights questions because such questions should be left to medical experts, at the exact same time that it is second-guessing a real, live medical expert and granting to itself the sole power to decide which acute medical conditions are life-threatening and which are just jolly good fun.

Kate Cox's traumatic tale has highlighted the faults of ambiguous "medical exemptions" when it comes to abortion ban laws. Where once the pro-life crowd dismissed fears that pregnancy complications would be covered by these exemptions, recent events have proven that unlicensed politicians can override these decisions in the name of moral authority.

The only way Kate Cox can persuade a bunch of elected judges and lawyers (who have never met her and don’t care about her health or her reproductive future) that she should be allowed to end an excruciating, doomed pregnancy is by either: 1) dying; or 2) having a physician certify that she will die without treatment.

Kate Cox's story rose in national headlines when it was reported she had submitted a court case against her home state of Texas in order to legally obtain a medically necessary abortion following a fatal diagnosis for her pregnancy. Following the legal battle that ensued with the state, she was repeatedly in and out of the ER due to rising complications and risks to her health.

She is a woman who is simply asking to be viewed as an adult human capable of making a medical decision with her physician. And in response, the people in power are decidedly saying to her that there is essentially no medical authority that they trust more than themselves to make that decision—oh, and their decision is always no, and if an actual doctor dares to contradict them, that doctor could be facing a 99-year prison sentence.

In a "legal test" of Texas's abortion ban, it has become evident that women's reproductive healthcare is now a modern day witch trial waxing sentences for non-viable and dangerous pregnancies.

What are your thoughts an opinions for the ramifications of this case? Candidates who strongly supported abortion are not performing as well in elections and Ohio's recent vote to enshrine abortion rights as an amendment serves as rebuttals to these strong-armed anti-abortion laws. Do you believe this case will impact elections for Texas when it comes to candidates who are against abortion?

As someone who is in a similar draconian red state that has their own restrictive abortion ban, this further proves to me that these laws are not well-intentioned despite their propagandization. Instead they serve as a means of control over woman through a guise of superior morality. Women's reproductive healthcare is now our modern day Salem Witch Trials.