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NARAL’s Texas affiliate released a statement as former Gov. Rick Perry made his exit last week, outlining the damage Perry’s leadership has left in its wake – the closure of more than 80 family planning clinics due to budget cuts; the loss of 9-1 federal matching funds as a result of excluding Planned Parenthood from a Medicaid program; mandatory 24-hour sonograms before an abortion, to name a few.
Judge Catharina Haynes—who voted to uphold other portions of H.B. 2 in an earlier challenge—questioned whether the law was medically justified.
"In an unusual turn of events at the Texas trial now under appeal, the state was caught red-handed: Four of the state’s five expert witnesses were forced to change their testimony on the stand when confronted with emails showing they had lied about who had written their reports."
"...the state’s lawyers finally turned over to the clinics’ attorneys emails they had withheld, despite a court order requiring them to turn over all the witnesses’ communications with Rue."
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2015-01-07/hb2-back-in-court-judges-get-critical/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...erts_lied_about_research_and_vincent_rue.html
From the outset of the hearing that lasted twice as long as the allotted time, Judge Catharina Haynes, directing her questions to State Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, expressed trouble discerning how the ASC physical plant requirements improve women’s safety.
"... why can’t you have a sterile operating environment in a 3,000 square foot [clinic]?” asked Haynes.
"You can kind of find an expert to say anything,” she told the state’s attorney. “Are we saying if you can find someone in the world to say we need marble floors in an abortion clinic, then that would be good enough to allow the Texas legislature to pass that?”
-Judge Catharina Haynes
Judge Catharina Haynes—who voted to uphold other portions of H.B. 2 in an earlier challenge—questioned whether the law was medically justified.
"In an unusual turn of events at the Texas trial now under appeal, the state was caught red-handed: Four of the state’s five expert witnesses were forced to change their testimony on the stand when confronted with emails showing they had lied about who had written their reports."
"...the state’s lawyers finally turned over to the clinics’ attorneys emails they had withheld, despite a court order requiring them to turn over all the witnesses’ communications with Rue."
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2015-01-07/hb2-back-in-court-judges-get-critical/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...erts_lied_about_research_and_vincent_rue.html
From the outset of the hearing that lasted twice as long as the allotted time, Judge Catharina Haynes, directing her questions to State Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, expressed trouble discerning how the ASC physical plant requirements improve women’s safety.
"... why can’t you have a sterile operating environment in a 3,000 square foot [clinic]?” asked Haynes.
"You can kind of find an expert to say anything,” she told the state’s attorney. “Are we saying if you can find someone in the world to say we need marble floors in an abortion clinic, then that would be good enough to allow the Texas legislature to pass that?”
-Judge Catharina Haynes