Picasso-faced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday petitioned the state Supreme Court to prevent a woman whose fetus suffers from severe defects from obtaining the abortion a judge on Thursday granted an exception to the state’s draconian “pro-life” laws, with Paxton writing “each hour [the temporary restraining order] remains in place is an hour that Plaintiffs believe themselves free to perform and procure an elective abortion,” the Texas Tribune reports.
Following the loss on Thursday, the impeached and indicted lawman threatened to prosecute any doctor who performs the procedure on the 31 year-old woman Kate Cox, which is fairly incongruous with his need to get the state Supreme Court to intervene to prevent the death of a fetus that is tragically going to suffer and die anyway if carried to term. The whole situation also raises questions about why Republicans don’t want to talk about abortion while still calling attention to it like this.