Texas’s intellectually-stunted male-dominated Republican leadership has filed a lawsuit to overturn a Biden Administration order that people experiencing a life-threatening pregnancy can access abortion services, idiotically claiming it will turn hospital emergency rooms into “walk-in abortion clinics,” the Washington Post reports.

Issued after far-right Supreme Court justices overturn the right outlined in Roe to reproductive health services, President Joe Biden’s directive, issued through the Department of Health and Human Services, reinforces the supremacy of a federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, that requires medical professionals to provide life-saving treatment to patients at risk regardless of the patient’s condition or ability to pay.

“President Biden is flagrantly disregarding the legislative and democratic process—and flouting the Supreme Court’s ruling before the ink is dry—by having his appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians must perform abortions,” the lawsuit file by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott claims.

In effect, Abbott is arguing for the requirement, put forth by Texas and other draconian states, that pregnant patients who would otherwise survive if they terminated a non-viable pregnancy or a pregnancy that would kill or maim them, should instead die to carry a fetus, which would also kill the fetus in most cases.  This so-called “pro life” position would result in two deaths, not one birth.

About 2% of pregnancies in the US are ectopic pregnancies that result in a non-viable fetus, and invariably cause physical harm to the pregnant individual.  With approximately 6.3 million pregnancies in the US annually, that means Abbott wants to sentence roughly 126,000 people to death, something Texas Republicans enjoy.