Yeah, But How Crazy Can You Be
Our Governor Greg Abbott decided it would serve Texas well if he took a close look at SB 359. The bill was intended to help doctors with mentally ill patients.
Intended to provide a window of protection for doctors who sometimes find themselves choosing between illegally holding mentally ill patients and letting them leave with the real possibility they might be a danger to themselves or the community, the legislation would have allowed hospitals to retain patients for up to four hours, allowing law enforcement to arrive and evaluate the situation.
This is a high standard for a very few mentally ill patients but it does serve to protect society from people fixing to go off the edge. It was supported by every mental health advocate group in Texas. Except one. Just one.
A May 22 email accompanying a letter of support from doctors asks an Abbott staffer to “please remember that the veto coalition is being led by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a front group for the Church of Scientology. … Their positions are well outside the mainstream.”
Yeah, the Church of Scientology, who does not believe in mental illness, won out over the medical and mental health community.
The Governor vetoed the bill, stunning the legislature who said that the Governor expressed no reservations about the bill while it was being considered.
First the Jade Helm Crazies and now the Church of Scientology. The come to find out, the First Lady of Texas is all Let’s Do Lunch with the Scientologists. In a letter to Abbott’s wife …
Spiller added a postscript: “I have not forgotten about your last message. Please consider yourself invited to our office, and any event we hold, any time.” He then asks to set up an “informal coffee … with a few close friends.”
Can’t we pass some legislation about Governors with mental health problems?
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Yeah, and we are launching two separate investigations into Planned Parenthood over fetal tissue issues, one Abbott’s and one Paxton’s. PP says they are donated, TX says PP illegally profiting. Your Taxes at Work, courtesy of the GOP not-war-on-women. I have a headache and I want to start drinking at 9 in the morning-this doesn’t bode well…
1This is so typical of people who don’t read the whole damn thing. The PP response has been carried in mainstream media which, as I understand it, is according to RWNJs socialist libtard tripe. I had a friend of many years who died of Parkinsons and had set up a deal with a local teaching hospital to use his dead body for scientific purposes. From all that I can determine from the PP position, they are honoring the requests of patients just like the teaching hospital honored the request of my friend.
2Nothing new to those in the nuttery annex north, AKA Oklahoma.
Sen Kerr successfully shut down single payer health care way back when, because his wife was a Christian Scientist.
I am still amazed that the US after WW2 when authoring the German Constitution did not undo Bismarck’s welfare system. Instead they even put workers, unions, on the boards of directors of corporations on top off that anti-capitalist outrage.
Wish they’d do that here, Wall Street needs a reality check and some adult supervision. Monopoly just don’t hack it folks.
3Scientologist are Abbott’s kind of people.
4Abbott is a disgrace… and Texas is a bad, bad joke.
5Health – mental or physical – issues are just beyond Abbot and Paxton. There’s all that damn science involved.
6Sounds to me that Abbott should be held and evaluated as a danger to the community. No wonder he wanted to veto the bill.
7Honestly Texas would fall into the Gulf if Oklahoma didn’t suck.
8I’m with Rhea.
9If the truly crazy ones are detained, who will protect Texas from Jade Helm 15 & 16 & 17…….
10So how’s our series of novels about Tayuksis and Guvner Abbott coming along? Or are we going dreckly to movie making?
11Both Abbott and Paxton should be disbarred and entered into psychiatric treatment. They are ignorant regarding the law and exhibit blatant sociopath tendencies.
12Dayyum. It’s already a long four years.
13Next, A-but will be assigning guns to those in need of psychiatric treatment. Wait…..they already have guns.
14“….allowing law enforcement to arrive and evaluate the situation.”
I’m having a hard time with that part. Why should law enforcement evaluate anything in a medical situation?
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