Dana El-Kurd
speaker
4,891 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
Dana El-Kurd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A district court overturned the law, but Ho and the Fifth Circuit reinstated it, arguing that coerced burial protected religious freedom of the Catholic bishops.
Quote, the First Amendment expressly guarantees the free exercise of religion, including the right of bishops to express their profound objection to the moral tragedy of abortion, Ho wrote.
Texas still requires that fetal remains receive burial or cremation.
As we'll explore later, it's not only on the issue of abortion that Ho has staked out an extreme position.
In Manns v. Sessions, the Fifth Circuit Court, by an 8-7 vote, narrowly avoided overturning a federal gun law that prohibited interstate gun sales.
Ho offered a bitter dissent, quoting his mentor Clarence Thomas and complaining that in spite of the wide open access to firearms in this country, the Second Amendment had become, quote, a second class right.
In his opinion, Ho ridiculed advocates of gun control as suffering from hoplophobia, the irrational fear of guns.
Ho and the entire Fifth Circuit achieved national infamy after the Supreme Court erased almost half a century of abortion rights when it overturned the Roe v. Wade decision in the Dobbs v. Women's Health Organization case on June 24, 2022.
A little more than a year after that landmark case, on August 16, 2023, the Fifth Circuit upheld tightened access for women to mifepristone, the so-called abortion pill, which accounts for more than half of all terminated pregnancies in the United States.
Originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, but only for prescription by hospitals and other medical facilities, the FDA expanded access to the medication in 2016 and gave doctors the right to directly prescribe mifepristone.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting in 2021, women could receive it through the mail.
In 2024, an anti-abortion organization, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, intentionally incorporated in 2022 an Amarillo,
which placed it in the jurisdiction of the famously anti-abortion federal district judge Matthew J. Kaczmarek.
Like Judge Ho, Kaczmarek belonged to the First Liberty Institute.
While being considered for the federal bench, he unsuccessfully tried to conceal his authorship of legal articles on gay rights he thought might jeopardize approval of his nomination by the U.S.
Senate.
Kaczmarek has described gay and trans people as mentally disordered.
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine filed suit in Kaczmarek's court seeking to overturn the FDA's approval of mifepristone, even though decades of research had demonstrated its safety and its effectiveness for treating Cushing syndrome, a severe endocrine disorder.
None of the doctors in the alliance had ever been involved in a medical case in which the use of mifeprestone had been considered.
In his opinion, Kazmirik showed his disdain for medical personnel providing women reproductive care, referring to them as, quote, abortionists, and called terminating pregnancy through medication, quote, starving the unborn human until death.
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