Meanwhile, Texas

[Svartalf]

I still don't see what standing they have to intervene in the matter of students seeking abortions, much less that conduct having any bearing on grades.

[pErvinalia]

What if the pregnancy was the result of non-consensual sex? How are these tools going to determine that before failing someone?

[JimC]

I still don't see what standing they have to intervene in the matter of students seeking abortions, much less that conduct having any bearing on grades.

It seems to me they were relying on a different interpretation of the rule which allows students to miss classes because of medical procedures - they are trying to have it ruled that abortion is not a legitimate medical procedure in this context...

[Sean Hayden]

Assuming they are sincere it looks like mean-spiritedness. The reality is that they’ll never need to know so much about any student. So what this amounts to is declaring publicly that they sure do hate them kind of folks, boy howdy do they ever, just so, so much.

[Brian Peacock]

Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt' and 'fart’.

[Sean Hayden]

[Sean Hayden]

An 18-year-old woman has been charged after a newborn baby was found in a dumpster in southwest Houston on Sunday, according to police.

On Thursday, the Houston Police Department said the mother, Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam, is in the hospital and charged with abandoning a child.

I may be way off base here but I'm not sure this is something that warrants a criminal charge. Have we had this discussion elsewhere yet?

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The infant is alive.

[pErvinalia]

What's the legality of abortion at the moment in Texas?

[Sean Hayden]

It is banned.

[Tero]

There are enough cases that the practical experience is no abortion. You cannot make any exceptions for the mother. At least, none so far. The hospitals won't do them.

[pErvinalia]

It is banned.

Might see more of this kind of thing.

[Sean Hayden]

Maybe. We'll have to look in a couple of years. I wouldn't think so though.

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On the criminal charges, it just makes more sense to me to treat this first as a medical problem. If criminal charges seem necessary after/during that then fine. But giving birth in a taco truck and putting the infant in a dumpster sounds like a medical emergency to me, and she was taken to the hospital..

[Tero]

The legal side (people ratting on pregnancy issues get a reward) needs to go through the court system. You can't have people with no standing in a case interfering with individuals. No case went to any higher court.