You mean it’s almost like RICH people who need abortions are going to get them. Crucial distinction. It takes resources to get yourself to another state and a lot of people can’t even afford to take time off work let alone pay for gas/bus ticket/plane ticket/hotel etc.
The fucked up thing is that the MAJORITY of Texans aren’t rich yet they keep voting for the party that let’s their kids get slaughtered in schools and their mothers die on the birthing bed.
The republicans ability to get people to vote against their own interest is astonishing. Truly the most effective propaganda campaign in history with the possible exception of Goebbels convincing Germany it’s a good idea to invade the whole world.
I blame the 2 party system. The democrats could do us on this but the whole culture war thing is really a huge distraction. Democrats seem willing to lose out on everything they proclaim to care about to make everything qia+ their main focus. And they should probably not try to take texan guns on the same platform as anything else.
A don’t mess with texan women campaign by a pro gun democrat that is quiet and center on other social issues, along with generic “economic growth” talk might actually do well.
These women now have to struggle for what was once readily available, even if they still can, theoretically, access family planning in another state. A lot of them are going to try an unsafe method, or won’t be able to make the trip happen, or fall through the cracks another way.
This dangerous shit is what got Roe v. Wade passed to begin with. I was only a kid but damn those pics were gory. There is one quite famous one of a lady who had died while passed out from loss of blood, kneeling on the floor with bloody towels around her from a botched abortion. Even in black and white it was . . . ugh.
Laws don’t end abortions and never have. They only ensure more suffering, death, and societal judgement for anyone in a position unlucky enough to have to think about one in the first place.
(And as long as I’m talking about the 70s, I should add that this whole bad faith “abortion as birth control” argument comes from the exact same place as Ronald Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” trope. These people may exist, but they are NOT the norm, not by a long shot. In both cases the real culprits were, and are, institutions corporate and religious.)
It’s almost like who need abortions are going to get them regardless of how legal they are.
Amazing.
You mean it’s almost like RICH people who need abortions are going to get them. Crucial distinction. It takes resources to get yourself to another state and a lot of people can’t even afford to take time off work let alone pay for gas/bus ticket/plane ticket/hotel etc.
Rich people will get safe abortions, people without money will find other ways to have abortions that risk their own life.
The fucked up thing is that the MAJORITY of Texans aren’t rich yet they keep voting for the party that let’s their kids get slaughtered in schools and their mothers die on the birthing bed.
A majority of Texans don’t even vote! They see all this and go “yeah but both parties are the same”
The republicans ability to get people to vote against their own interest is astonishing. Truly the most effective propaganda campaign in history with the possible exception of Goebbels convincing Germany it’s a good idea to invade the whole world.
I blame the 2 party system. The democrats could do us on this but the whole culture war thing is really a huge distraction. Democrats seem willing to lose out on everything they proclaim to care about to make everything qia+ their main focus. And they should probably not try to take texan guns on the same platform as anything else.
A don’t mess with texan women campaign by a pro gun democrat that is quiet and center on other social issues, along with generic “economic growth” talk might actually do well.
“The cruelty is the point” etc
These women now have to struggle for what was once readily available, even if they still can, theoretically, access family planning in another state. A lot of them are going to try an unsafe method, or won’t be able to make the trip happen, or fall through the cracks another way.
This dangerous shit is what got Roe v. Wade passed to begin with. I was only a kid but damn those pics were gory. There is one quite famous one of a lady who had died while passed out from loss of blood, kneeling on the floor with bloody towels around her from a botched abortion. Even in black and white it was . . . ugh.
Laws don’t end abortions and never have. They only ensure more suffering, death, and societal judgement for anyone in a position unlucky enough to have to think about one in the first place.
(And as long as I’m talking about the 70s, I should add that this whole bad faith “abortion as birth control” argument comes from the exact same place as Ronald Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” trope. These people may exist, but they are NOT the norm, not by a long shot. In both cases the real culprits were, and are, institutions corporate and religious.)
Don’t forget about the Nancy Reagan blowjob queen, er, THROAT GOAT trope.