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Texas Champions the Rights of the Unborn…Until It Doesn’t

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According to the great state of Texas-
In a court response, Issa’s lawyer shot back that the state’s arguments were “nothing more than an attempt to say—without explicitly saying—that an unborn child at seven months gestation is not a person.”

 
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According to the great state of Texas-
In a court response, Issa’s lawyer shot back that the state’s arguments were “nothing more than an attempt to say—without explicitly saying—that an unborn child at seven months gestation is not a person.”

They could be saying that only for the purposes of this one case, a 7 month fetus is not a person, without jeopardizing their stance on abortion. But I’d have to see the arguments which I ain’t gonna find @ Texas tribune.
 
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The Republican elites, think tanks, and strategists only care about a notion of fetal rights inasmuch as they can use it to manipulate people into voting for their otherwise losing social policies
 
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A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.

This case is pre-Dobbs, wherein Texas fights against a fetus’ status as a pre-born human being.
None of that is relevant here. The relevant question is posed in her lawsuit:

"In the months after losing her child, Issa first filed an internal discrimination complaint with TDCJ, according to the lawsuit. But after months without any response from the agency, she and her husband filed a complaint in federal court in October.

Aside from violating the unborn child’s right to life and bodily integrity, the challenge claims TDCJ and the supervisors violated Issa’s basic rights and discriminated against her based on her sex and pregnancy. The lawsuit also argues TDCJ officials violated the provision of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act that entitles employees to take emergency leave to care for their children."

She was not permitted to leave for 2 1/2 hours after she said she was in labor because no one was there to replace her, we are told. Whether this is the proximate cause of her stillborn child's death is a matter of fact for a jury.
 
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