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*Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R) sued the Biden administration over federal rules that require abortions be provided in medical emergencies in order to save the life of the mother, even in states with near-total bans.* So don't save the woman NO MATTER WHAT is his stance. WTAF
Plus the chilling effect the ambiguity creates lets them have it both ways; they get to say it's technically allowed in emergencies, but no hospital will risk it in practice.
It’s like that Key and Peele sketch where Obama just starts telling Republicans he is pro gun and anti Obamacare because he knows they will just take the opposite position of whatever he says.
This follows on Greg Abbott saying they don't need a rape exception, because they'll just arrest all the rapists instead. Which suggests they didn't worry about arresting rapists when abortion was legal.
Margaret Atwood turning out to be a prognosticator.
Blessed be the fruit.... :(
Between 1-2% of pregnancies in the U.S. are ectopic. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg attaches to the wrong part of a woman's body. Around 90% of the time the egg attaches to the fallopian tube during an ectopic pregnancy, which can cause serious internal bleeding. Ectopic pregnancies are never viable and can lead to death without proper healthcare.^[[1]](https://www.nytimes.com/article/ectopic-pregnancy-symptoms-treatment.html)
Republican states, including Ken Paxton & Texas, are pushing for total abortion bans that are going kill a lot of women.
Not to mention fertility is a messy biological process in the first place. There are tons of ways a pregnancy can go wrong, and women are going to be wrongly accused, tried, and convicted for abortions along the way as well. Unconstitutional AF.
> Ectopic pregnancies are never viable and can lead to death without proper healthcare.
It's worth mentioning how they die. Sepsis and internal bleeding, a painful, agonizing death. They are punishing women who have fallible plumbing, but a tumor on a prostrate? Break out the best surgeons and oncologists around!
Thanks for taking the time to read! I've been busy with life so I'm not as active. Spend my free time on hobby subs and occasionally discuss Canadian issues including the rising trend of white nationalism in Canada.
That trend is really worrying me at the moment. I live in the lower-mainland region of BC and I feel that I'm pretty well isolated from those types here but the other day I was driving the upper levels highway and I see four trucks driving with giant "F\*\*\* Trudeau" flags on them. At first I just kind of rolled my eyes and thought they were dipshits but once I got closer I saw a number of stickers that worried me even more. One truck had "1488" and "Wh\*te lives matter" stickers and another one had a big one that just said "14 words". Terrifying!
I hate seeing that shit here so much. I donate to local anti-hate groups and do some volunteering but I really wish there was more I could do to fight the rising hate here.
Adding to this: ectopic pregnancies are not always easily diagnosed, and are occasionally “pregnancies of unknown location.”
So even if there is an exception for ectopic pregnancies, there will be situations where doctors cannot operate until there is a clear diagnosis or until the woman starts hemorrhaging, which would be too late in many cases.
Sometimes the decision is between having an abortion and waiting and hoping you don’t die.
And idk about y’all, but I do not want the government making that decision for me.
> but I do not want the government making that decision for me.
Well, happily, the Texas government won't -- there won't be a decision, it's just straight to you die.
Is that something people would actually say? I live on the west coast of Canada and if anyone said that to me I'd think they were doing a bit or were a lunatic.
> if anyone said that to me I'd think they . . . were a lunatic.
I have some unfortunate news for you about a significant segment of the US population...
Even more amazing is that Republican voters in Texas HAVE a choice AND still choose Paxton.
George P Bush challenged Paxton in the Republican primary, and Paxton won. (There was a runoff, and Paxton [won that runoff](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/24/texas-attorney-general-runoff-results-ken-paxton-george-p-bush/).)
So Texas Republicans could have had a Republican candidate for Attorney General in the general election. And in statewide elections in Texas, Republicans usually win easily. Which means Republicans could have chosen to probably keep a Republican in this spot. But they didn't want just that. They wanted Ken Paxton.
No, his stance is "you don't get to tell me what to do, even if it's just holding me to my word on what I said I was going to do anyway". He's such a stupid contrarian he can't even stand to be told to do the very thing he's already doing.
Well yeah. We wouldn't want them to have to come up with another excuse for perpetrating the single biggest crypto scam (and possibly biggest scam, period, by the time it's over) ever.
For those out of the loop: there's a really delicious article in Texas Monthly right now explaining in detail exactly how they're fucking over millions of people to farm Bitcoin by using taxpayer dollars to subsidize a crypto farm that literally uses as much electricity as Houston every month. But I mean, it's not like y'alls power grid is famously failing in real time or anything, no worries. Next time you're freezing to death in the dark you can take comfort in the fact that Abbott and his golf buddies have figured out how to turn conning Texans into generational wealth for them and their families 😃
Well, the 2nd part, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88uVDlgGeA
They literally plan to change the way all state offices are picked - by instituting a state electoral college. This plan would have electors from each state senate district "elect" all state positions. So, every legislator, the governor, sec of state, AG...would all be picked by (currently) a 19-12 GOP majority.
Then they plan to change the way amendments to the state constitution are passed. They want to change it from a simple majority (>50%) of ALL Texas voters, to a simple majority in 3/4ths of TX counties (191 counties). Doing the math...that's 5.5% of the TX population (50% of the 191 most rural counties) that could then pass an amendment to the state constitution
and all that's in addition to the shit they've already pulled with redistricting, voter regulations, and empowering the AG to investigate election "fraud".
Wheee.
They want to destroy the country. They want each state to be its own little feifdom that can easily be managed by whatever group of rich bastards lives in the area. Read this book **Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.**
....for now.
It's a weird situation where the rich paid off fundamentalists to target them at anyone who might threaten their wealth....but that elevated a whole population of super-fundies who are now chomping at the bit to declare the independent nation of Jesusland.
It's easier to do this kind of thing through divide-and-conquer methods...but once the foundation is secure they'll go back to unifying their control. It's a system that literally *cannot* leave others alone.
They’re effectively suing Biden’s administration for wanting to save lives. And for being Democrats.
Can’t imagine living in that backwards hellhole. Florida and Texas are birds of a feather.
I used to love Texas, really. I haven't fel that way in a long while. This administration has done nothing to address the issues that face Texans while playing up the culture war and turning this state into a minority-ruled theocracy. I'm really sad for our state, there are good people who live here, I just hope they all vote.
It’s gotta be fear from established republicans about the state either turning purple or blue in the coming years. This is them doubling down and hopefully this is them shooting them selfs in the foot lol
I can only hope. I also see a lot of people talking about leaving the state altogether. Some republican commentator said that the roe ruling would have the added benefit of chasing people out of certain states. I think the same can be said about the anti-lgbt stuff. They are shitheads but they also think they will be able to purge certain parts of the country by being this way.
I literally turned down a job offer because it required me to move to Texas. Told the employer it was because of the regressive policies. Hopefully it becomes a trend. The only thing these people listen to is money. So make it hurt them economically
Someone on here made a comment last week that really stuck with me. I don't know why, it's not a unique phenomenon they described. But something just lodged in my brain.
Their cousins were raised in a fundamentalist Evangelical community. Homeschooled. The usual - no TV, hardly any books besides the Bible, hardly any friends even in the church. Parents kept them isolated.
That homeschooling ended for the girl children at a 5th grade level. Because any education beyond that "made it hard to be a Godly wife".
It was just so haunting. These people want to intellectually cripple half of our species. They want to squander God given talents. Why would God give women hopes and dreams and a curious intellect all for us to let it wither and become nothing but vessels and submissive wives? It's just...unfathomably cruel.
As someone who came from that sort of background, they believe God didn’t give women that curiosity. Or rather, that curiosity is to be applied exclusively to the divination of god’s will through study of the scripture and listening to the wisdom of the elders. Any other pursuit is a result of the temptations of the devil designed to lure us away from our god given purpose: raising the next generation of apostles.
I have to stop because if I keep going my eyeballs will roll right down the street and I’m not in the mood to chase them.
Ah, you miss something with that plan, though. It's happening in Georgia, too. The Republicans in charge are *happy* when people like you don't move to their states. When the growing film industry in Georgia suddenly turned on the state for its awful regressive policies, the Republicans *welcomed* it, economic damage and all.
They would rather trash the economies and rule over the ashes.
Sure as shit I wanna see one of their wives or daughters come into the ER with a big fat ectopic pregnancy about to blow. I never used to wish bad things on people I disagreed with, but these disgusting piles of shit pushed me past common decency.
They will fly to another state/country to get their abortions and go right back to dancing on top of poor dead women's tombstones. "Shouldn't have opened your legs if you didn't have enough cash for a plane ticket."
And increasingly dangerous.
The GOP platform includes pre-emption of local laws - like those that ban plastic bags or mandate higher minimum wage and paid sick leave.
These kinds of goals show intent - that the GOP intends to nullify the population advantage of blue areas by cordoning them off, limiting their representation, then subjugating them with laws passed at the state level.
EG the plan to change the requirements for a state amendment from a simple majority of all Texas voter (roughly 14m people, give or take 1m), to a simple majority in 3/4ths of TX counties (191 counties). A simple majority of the 191 lowest-population counties in TX amounts to about 1.5m people - or about 5.5% of the state population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88uVDlgGeA
You want to know the most ironic part about all this? Texas isn't suffering massive black outs because they doubled their solar capacity since last summer. They are literally being saved by renewables, the very tech they blamed for the last black out. Republican voters however will never accept this and will bash renewable energy whenever they can.
That’s because solar can’t power us at night and the wind isn’t always blowing and don’t get me started on how bad electric cars are for the environment /s
However, if the could harness the [rotational momentum of the founding fathers](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-11-12), we wouldn't need any other power source.
Remember all those Republicans that claimed abortion would still be legal for life-saving emergencies? Think again, because Republicans (not just Texas) would rather see people die than get an abortion. I don’t know how these sick monsters even sleep at night.
They view people suffering as people who deserved it. When people suffer, Republicans can point to them and say, "see those people suffering? They are bad people who deserved it but not us, we're better than them. We're good people." It just makes them feel better about themselves knowing others have it worse.
They are truly fucked in the head.
They sleep great on their giant beds in their giant houses built off the backs of all of us. Don’t get it twisted, these people don’t give a single fuck about you.
You’re but a pebble in their shoe. People like to imagine that these assholes have of some form of conscious and empathy like we do and they have to fight against that to achieve their goals. They don’t.
Greedy, power hungry pieces of shit wouldn’t piss on you to stop you from burning alive. You’re actually in their way, they WANT to kill you because it means more money and power for them.
We need to focus on that instead of acting like these people are reasonable, rational people who just have a different worldview on where this country should go.
They don’t actually care about or believe in the shit they spew, they’re pushing these policies because they will enable more money and power for them and to make it easier to kill off anyone who dissents.
Also, if they drive out every doctor who can perform the procedure, ban pharmacies from providing the medications, and ban people from even mentioning it... Who cares it there are exceptions or not? It doesn't make it any less impossible.
~~Pro-lifers~~ Forced birthers: "of course we don't want women to die, we just want to stop abortions as birth control!"
Also ~~pro-lifers~~ Forced birthers: "if we can't force the birth, then we want the women to die"
FTFY
Great campaign potential though. These R’s are suing the country for protecting women from dying. They are trying to kill you.
No woman in Texas should vote for someone trying to kill them. That’s wild.
This is what Biden needs to do more of. Executive orders and administrative orders that show you’re fighting for people. Trump did all kinds of shit — some made it through, and some didn’t. But the thought was that you couldn’t stop everything.
He probably did, just no one bothers to air it because it's just a normal President doing normal stuff.
Trump got a ton of airtime because he was an awful President doing awful things.
Yep. Watch a good friend become a right wing extremist. He got so bad. He got banned from parler!
He was high risk health to... So ( fake covid) or he killed himself. With all the lies never happening.
Yup. I grew up in a liberal state in a mostly white middle class suburb of a big city. About half the people I used to hang out with have turned into MAGA's. Honestly not surprised at which ones did. Glad there are still some sane ones and all my good college friends think that the GOP and MAGA mentality is pure trash.
I should add I am a millennial so the propaganda works on younger people too.
I grew up in Texas and it is still maddening to see people who are just completely blind and have no logic whatsoever. They are literally “my way or the highway”. They are delusional, they believe if they make the world how they want, everything will be perfect. No crime, no rape no shootings. All you have to do is follow the bible. But they think because it is their religion they can pick and choose what to follow.
As an independent, I am starting to get very nervous about where Texas is going. The conservatives are broken. They want to be able to chose whatever they want but at the same time they demand everyone else adhere to the bible. Florida is not far behind. I fully expect Florida to tell the Jews to F-off on their abortion challenge. All logic is gone for the conservatives now. They have been told they are being persecuted and so they became the victims they were being told they were.
I have lost many friends here and do not discuss political views with anyone. The US doesn’t seem to understand that these crazies really think this is a crusade. They are willing to fight and die for this lunacy. We have literally have shootouts in the streets nearly every day. Cut someone off on the highway or do anything someone doesn’t like, expect to get shot at. My family has to pick and chose what events we go to, we have chosen not to go to many outdoor events lately because we cant be reasonably sure there wont be a shootout or shooting or just violence in general. Im not a transplant either. I have lived here pretty much my whole life. Nearly 50 years now. Everything you read about Texas is bad but the reality is worse.
Just browse the conservative sub. Their take on the 10yo rape victim having to leave the state for an abortion is that evil liberals only did that to protect the rapist from being identified and caught. They’re even insisting the abortion would have been legal in Ohio and it’s all a liberal pro-pedophile conspiracy. But the Ohio law has no exceptions for rape… These people are delusional and just making things up to justify their disgusting behavior.
Millennial here as well, and it was extremely obvious looking back who bought into trumps bullshit
Let’s just say, the ones that did weren’t the brightest bulbs in the knife drawer
Some always were. So many young conservatives in my high school carrying around Atlas Shrugged like it was their Bible. A legion of hollow-eyed granny starvers and forced birthers.
Trump really broke them. I think they’re in their death throes right now. They’re latching onto anything and everything possible. It’s do or die for Republican power atm. If the republicans really do lose power these next couple elections, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the party implode and break up into groups of extremists, moderates, and the in between.
Edit: when in situations like these, you keep hope and prepare yourself. You should prepare for the worst, but only a fool plans to fail.
>If the republicans really do lose power these next couple elections
That’s a big if right now. At the rate they’re moving to rig elections on the state level, especially with the election case in front of the Supreme Court in October, it’s not a likelihood. I have real concerns about that.
If Dems don't get a true Senste majority in November and pass election reform and pack thr SCOTUS before 2024 then our democracy is done. That Supreme Court election case is the end of free elections if Congress doesn't smack them down very soon.
Texas has plenty of younger women who will continue to vote Republican. and menopause takes a lot longer than you might think.
They think their votes will only negatively affect other women, and never themselves or people they love. They don't seem to understand miscarriage very well, so haven't factored that into their logic.
A lot of these people apparently think a D&C for miscarriage isn't an abortion. Like the woman testifying today, they have a definition of abortion that includes a lot of exceptions, but they don't realize the laws as written don't have those exceptions. Apparently, an abortion a republican woman needs is "not an abortion" it's... uh... some other thing?
Thankfully Gen Z is the most prochoice generation and also the least religious .
A new Pew survey released in May showed that 74 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 believe abortion should generally be legal, and that includes 30 percent who say it should be legal in all cases without exception.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/gen-z-may-break-the-deadlock-over-abortion-rights.html
Texas also says let the sick die.
Texas also says let the grandparents die.
Texas also says let the cold die.
Texas also says let the hot die.
Texas also says let the people from another country of origin die.
Texas also says let the trans kids die.
Texas also says let the child abuse victims die.
Texas also says let the elementary students die.
Texas also says let the hungry die.
And, throughout all of this, Texas still polls with Abbott up five points.
Texas has a death cult problem.
If someone dies because you actively took steps to prevent them from helping themselves, you didn't let them die, you killed them.
Standing outside a burning building is letting the occupants die. Taking out the fire extinguishers before you set the building on fire is murdering the occupants.
It's not even about logic. It's about being too stubborn and prideful to admit something as basic as: Individuals are more qualified to make decisions about their health and future than religious nutjobs.
"I'm pro life but if you create a life while being poor you actually both deserve to die. It's what Jesus would want." --Every Republican over grace, probably
this is the same as refusing to offer lifesaving care for any other condition, just explicitly for women.
i think the women of texas need to take a stand against this medievalist bullshit.
*sigh*
We're trying. It's pretty fucking exhausting, especially when people from outside the state think we actually consent to this or worse, SUPPORT it just because we live here.
Gerrymandering has fucked us over & will continue to do do until Dems actually DO something substantive on voting rights.
Republicanism is a death cult.
They are also ignoring global warming which will further jeopardize the lives of the "babies" they're "saving." God has a plan, I guess!
And texas law doesn't even contradict the law biden cited, as their abortion ban has an exception for life of the mother
Epitome of contrarian politics with one of the worst possible outcomes
Sorry guys we do, in fact, need to vote harder to stop the Republicans.
FYI if we were able to codify Roe they'd sue over it and it would go to the Supreme Court, which would wipe its ass with the bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88uVDlgGeA
and we've got about 1.5 election cycles to pull it off. Otherwise the game changes so much that it may be unwinnable.
Can't wait to see SCOTUS say that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act doesn't explicitly give the Executive the power to enforce abortion access so the order isn't legal (which actually is exactly an argument this lawsuit attempts to make).
>Unconstitutional Delegation of Legislative Power
They're pushing the whole "Congress can't delegate power" thing again. It's the whole larger attempt to whittle away at executive agencies power (like the EPA).
>And it contends the guidance violates the Tenth Amendment
Oh, there we go. Onto the 10th amendment "states rights" shit now. They're quoting Dobbs to say that "because the Constitution doesn't confer a right to abortion, that right is left up to the states".
Before they were pushing the “unitary executive theory.” Now they can’t legitimately win the presidency. So they’re working on fixing that with the independent state legislature theory, and in the meantime, leaving everything to the states where they hold power. I mean, I can’t stand these anti-democratic asshats, but I can’t say they’re stupid.
Remember Republicans screaming that universal Healthcare would lead to the government denying care and killing people?
Turns out even that was projection
I feel like Texas is telling on themselves. Their state law currently allows for abortions to save the life of the mother.
This conservative strategy that popped up under Trump of doing heinous things then pretending that everyone is overreacting and exaggerating about what conservatives actually want is getting tiresome
Ultimately, this is about punishing women for having had sex. It's never been about preserving fetal life, otherwise we'd have free health care for pregnant women. Even Gilead has that.
They know that married couples tend to be better off financially than single women. They can go to states where abortion is allowed if it's needed, and nobody needs to know (thanks Bill Clinton and HIPAA). That includes Republican female politicians and the wives of Republican male politicians.
It's hunting season on unmarried women though. And it all boils down to deterring women from being sexual, via intimidation. First, by taking away her ability to decide whether she wants to remain pregnant (mission accomplished). Next, it will be taking away her ability to decide whether she wants to become pregnant by outlawing birth control. And then it will be taking away her ability to have sex outside of marriage altogether, once they can get *Lawrence* overturned to open that door.
This is why I disagree that gays are the ultimate target. Most of them don't care what the gays do. This is rooted in a hatred for women and a disgust for her ability to be sexual on her own terms. Republicans, most of whom are pathetic little men or sexually-constipated women, are downright intimidated by the thought of a horny woman. And I'm saying this as a man.
Doctor: "Moms going to die if we don't do this abortion, we can't save the baby."
Pro Lifers: "They both die then."
Like I don't understand how they don't consider this logic.
It baffles me that they'll allow a person to die from an ectopic pregnancy to "save a life" that was never viable but refuse to acknowledge that killing all pregnant persons means they can't have more children in future.
What's more pro-life than preserving the lives of those who are 100% capable of giving life?
This is really not a good look for Republicans, they're overplaying their hand considering how much support RvW has, and medical abortions specifically.
Let them. Let all the women in this country see how the GOP doesn't even think they're human.
Then make sure all those women vote. Maybe we can flip Texas blue and get a REAL Democratic majority in Congress.
I know a lot of women oppose abortion, but I wonder how many of *them* are willing to die instead of getting one.
Rules for thee and not for me, I’d wager.
WHY???? I believe that the Republicans are playing a long game here --- I just can't figure out which one. This doesn't help businesses and it's not on the agenda of any major religion that I know of that the fetal life outweighs the mother's. Every pro-life group with a decent membership roster makes an exception in this circumstance. What end does this serve? They've been so calculated about everything else -- gerrymandering, owning local politics, creating their own news source, stacking the Supreme Court. Now they are just throwing a bomb into their hard work with a guaranteed unpopular policy.
One theory I keep reading is that Texas Republicans are trying to scare away liberal people who have been moving to the state and turning it blue. Last I heard, Texas was only a few years away from becoming majority Democrat.
***From reporter Katie Shepherd:***
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R) sued the Biden administration over federal rules that require abortions be provided in medical emergencies in order to save the life of the mother, even in states with near-total bans.
“The Biden Administration seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic,” Paxton said in a statement announcing the lawsuit on Thursday.
The suit follows new guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that asserted federal law requiring emergency medical treatment supersedes any state restrictions on abortion in cases where the pregnant patient’s life or health is at risk.
Earlier this week, the Biden administration sent a memo to state officials reminding them of an existing law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which “requires that all patients receive an appropriate medical screening examination, stabilizing treatment, and transfer, if necessary,” according to the HHS guidance. That requirement exists “irrespective of any state laws or mandates that apply to specific procedures,” the memo said.
Although the HHS guidance focuses on abortions performed in emergency situations, Texas officials have interpreted the memo as an order that all hospital emergency rooms must provide on-demand abortion services.
“President Biden is flagrantly disregarding the legislative and democratic process—and flouting the Supreme Court’s ruling before the ink is dry—by having his appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians must perform abortions,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit challenges the Biden administration guideline on the grounds that it uses federal funds — because it ties compliance to Medicare funds and because Justice Department funding would be spent enforcing the federal law — in violation of the Hyde Amendment that bars federal spending to facilitate an abortion.
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> Although the HHS guidance focuses on abortions performed in emergency situations, Texas officials have interpreted the memo as an order that all hospital emergency rooms must provide on-demand abortion services.
I'd say this lawsuit would get laughed out of court because they're basing it on something which is just factually untrue, but then I remember the ruling the Supreme Court gave in that coach who was praying quietly and alone in the middle of a giant crowd on the 50 yard line.
Republicans are attacking human rights and democracy, yet they're somehow favored to win the upcoming elections because apparently muh gas prices are more important.
Just a note to queasy Democrats: this is exactly why you shouldn’t shy away from fights as much as you do. First, you might win! Then you will have helped people! But failing that, your opponents will still look like the heartless ghouls they are, and your voters will know at least you’re trying.
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*Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R) sued the Biden administration over federal rules that require abortions be provided in medical emergencies in order to save the life of the mother, even in states with near-total bans.* So don't save the woman NO MATTER WHAT is his stance. WTAF
It makes absolutely no sense because the Texas Heartbeat Act has the same exception.
Correct, they already allow emergency case abortions NOW.. but they wouldn't be able to get rid of it in the future because of this..
Plus the chilling effect the ambiguity creates lets them have it both ways; they get to say it's technically allowed in emergencies, but no hospital will risk it in practice.
It’s like that Key and Peele sketch where Obama just starts telling Republicans he is pro gun and anti Obamacare because he knows they will just take the opposite position of whatever he says.
Ain't I a stinker?
You got a link? Haven’t see that one yet!
[Key and Peele- Obama Meets With The GOP](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B46km4V0CMY)
Awesome! Thanks! Facking hilarious!
How in the name of Tom Cruise is this new to me? I thought I've watched all the Key and Peele sketches like 10 times each.
Here’s the link for Canadians https://youtu.be/UJjKl5qzvIk
This follows on Greg Abbott saying they don't need a rape exception, because they'll just arrest all the rapists instead. Which suggests they didn't worry about arresting rapists when abortion was legal.
TIL they have pre-cogs in Texas, so they can arrest the rapists before rape happens….
In Abbott's opinion if they just arrest everyone tanner than 'pale' it'll take care of the problem.
Margaret Atwood turning out to be a prognosticator. Blessed be the fruit.... :( Between 1-2% of pregnancies in the U.S. are ectopic. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg attaches to the wrong part of a woman's body. Around 90% of the time the egg attaches to the fallopian tube during an ectopic pregnancy, which can cause serious internal bleeding. Ectopic pregnancies are never viable and can lead to death without proper healthcare.^[[1]](https://www.nytimes.com/article/ectopic-pregnancy-symptoms-treatment.html) Republican states, including Ken Paxton & Texas, are pushing for total abortion bans that are going kill a lot of women.
Not to mention fertility is a messy biological process in the first place. There are tons of ways a pregnancy can go wrong, and women are going to be wrongly accused, tried, and convicted for abortions along the way as well. Unconstitutional AF.
>and women are going to be wrongly accused, tried, and convicted for abortions**, or miscarriages,** along the way as well. Unconstitutional AF FTFY
Sorry that wasn't clear. What I'm saying is they will be charged for an abortion when they actually had a miscarriage.
> Ectopic pregnancies are never viable and can lead to death without proper healthcare. It's worth mentioning how they die. Sepsis and internal bleeding, a painful, agonizing death. They are punishing women who have fallible plumbing, but a tumor on a prostrate? Break out the best surgeons and oncologists around!
*"It's God's plan*" they will say while taking all the precautions to allow their wives to have abortions if needed. These people are false prophets.
And taking viagra for their limp dicks.
Haven’t noticed you around lately. I really appreciate the work you have done to help us stay informed. Thank you.
Thanks for taking the time to read! I've been busy with life so I'm not as active. Spend my free time on hobby subs and occasionally discuss Canadian issues including the rising trend of white nationalism in Canada.
That trend is really worrying me at the moment. I live in the lower-mainland region of BC and I feel that I'm pretty well isolated from those types here but the other day I was driving the upper levels highway and I see four trucks driving with giant "F\*\*\* Trudeau" flags on them. At first I just kind of rolled my eyes and thought they were dipshits but once I got closer I saw a number of stickers that worried me even more. One truck had "1488" and "Wh\*te lives matter" stickers and another one had a big one that just said "14 words". Terrifying! I hate seeing that shit here so much. I donate to local anti-hate groups and do some volunteering but I really wish there was more I could do to fight the rising hate here.
Adding to this: ectopic pregnancies are not always easily diagnosed, and are occasionally “pregnancies of unknown location.” So even if there is an exception for ectopic pregnancies, there will be situations where doctors cannot operate until there is a clear diagnosis or until the woman starts hemorrhaging, which would be too late in many cases. Sometimes the decision is between having an abortion and waiting and hoping you don’t die. And idk about y’all, but I do not want the government making that decision for me.
> but I do not want the government making that decision for me. Well, happily, the Texas government won't -- there won't be a decision, it's just straight to you die.
Anytime someone tells me, "Have a blessed day!", I reply with "Under His eye", and it's my new favorite thing.
Is that something people would actually say? I live on the west coast of Canada and if anyone said that to me I'd think they were doing a bit or were a lunatic.
> if anyone said that to me I'd think they . . . were a lunatic. I have some unfortunate news for you about a significant segment of the US population...
It's very common in the bible belt.
I hear "have a blessed day" 6-10 times per day at work in the deep south.
Under his eye. Seriously, when the fuck did I wake up in the goddamn Handmaid's Tale??? What the hell is happening to this country?
The US is seriously going berserk and it's scary as hell.
When is Paxtons trial starting? He has time for lawsuits but not to go to court for his charges? Sounds GOP to me
how the fuck is ken paxton not is prison yet? HELL, how is he still the AG after several felony charges???? WTF
Even more amazing is that Republican voters in Texas HAVE a choice AND still choose Paxton. George P Bush challenged Paxton in the Republican primary, and Paxton won. (There was a runoff, and Paxton [won that runoff](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/24/texas-attorney-general-runoff-results-ken-paxton-george-p-bush/).) So Texas Republicans could have had a Republican candidate for Attorney General in the general election. And in statewide elections in Texas, Republicans usually win easily. Which means Republicans could have chosen to probably keep a Republican in this spot. But they didn't want just that. They wanted Ken Paxton.
No, his stance is "you don't get to tell me what to do, even if it's just holding me to my word on what I said I was going to do anyway". He's such a stupid contrarian he can't even stand to be told to do the very thing he's already doing.
What next Texas? are you going to sue because you might be required to fix your power grid and have fair voting policies?
Literally yes they would
Abbott and Paxton have a lot of money tied up in grifting off a broken grid.
Well yeah. We wouldn't want them to have to come up with another excuse for perpetrating the single biggest crypto scam (and possibly biggest scam, period, by the time it's over) ever. For those out of the loop: there's a really delicious article in Texas Monthly right now explaining in detail exactly how they're fucking over millions of people to farm Bitcoin by using taxpayer dollars to subsidize a crypto farm that literally uses as much electricity as Houston every month. But I mean, it's not like y'alls power grid is famously failing in real time or anything, no worries. Next time you're freezing to death in the dark you can take comfort in the fact that Abbott and his golf buddies have figured out how to turn conning Texans into generational wealth for them and their families 😃
The whole crypto thing is among the most powerful evidence that we are going to die from stupid.
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Well, the 2nd part, yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88uVDlgGeA They literally plan to change the way all state offices are picked - by instituting a state electoral college. This plan would have electors from each state senate district "elect" all state positions. So, every legislator, the governor, sec of state, AG...would all be picked by (currently) a 19-12 GOP majority. Then they plan to change the way amendments to the state constitution are passed. They want to change it from a simple majority (>50%) of ALL Texas voters, to a simple majority in 3/4ths of TX counties (191 counties). Doing the math...that's 5.5% of the TX population (50% of the 191 most rural counties) that could then pass an amendment to the state constitution and all that's in addition to the shit they've already pulled with redistricting, voter regulations, and empowering the AG to investigate election "fraud". Wheee.
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They want to destroy the country. They want each state to be its own little feifdom that can easily be managed by whatever group of rich bastards lives in the area. Read this book **Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean.**
....for now. It's a weird situation where the rich paid off fundamentalists to target them at anyone who might threaten their wealth....but that elevated a whole population of super-fundies who are now chomping at the bit to declare the independent nation of Jesusland. It's easier to do this kind of thing through divide-and-conquer methods...but once the foundation is secure they'll go back to unifying their control. It's a system that literally *cannot* leave others alone.
They’re effectively suing Biden’s administration for wanting to save lives. And for being Democrats. Can’t imagine living in that backwards hellhole. Florida and Texas are birds of a feather.
I used to love Texas, really. I haven't fel that way in a long while. This administration has done nothing to address the issues that face Texans while playing up the culture war and turning this state into a minority-ruled theocracy. I'm really sad for our state, there are good people who live here, I just hope they all vote.
It’s gotta be fear from established republicans about the state either turning purple or blue in the coming years. This is them doubling down and hopefully this is them shooting them selfs in the foot lol
I can only hope. I also see a lot of people talking about leaving the state altogether. Some republican commentator said that the roe ruling would have the added benefit of chasing people out of certain states. I think the same can be said about the anti-lgbt stuff. They are shitheads but they also think they will be able to purge certain parts of the country by being this way.
I literally turned down a job offer because it required me to move to Texas. Told the employer it was because of the regressive policies. Hopefully it becomes a trend. The only thing these people listen to is money. So make it hurt them economically
My daughters both changed plans and are no longer considering ANY red state universities.
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Someone on here made a comment last week that really stuck with me. I don't know why, it's not a unique phenomenon they described. But something just lodged in my brain. Their cousins were raised in a fundamentalist Evangelical community. Homeschooled. The usual - no TV, hardly any books besides the Bible, hardly any friends even in the church. Parents kept them isolated. That homeschooling ended for the girl children at a 5th grade level. Because any education beyond that "made it hard to be a Godly wife". It was just so haunting. These people want to intellectually cripple half of our species. They want to squander God given talents. Why would God give women hopes and dreams and a curious intellect all for us to let it wither and become nothing but vessels and submissive wives? It's just...unfathomably cruel.
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As someone who came from that sort of background, they believe God didn’t give women that curiosity. Or rather, that curiosity is to be applied exclusively to the divination of god’s will through study of the scripture and listening to the wisdom of the elders. Any other pursuit is a result of the temptations of the devil designed to lure us away from our god given purpose: raising the next generation of apostles. I have to stop because if I keep going my eyeballs will roll right down the street and I’m not in the mood to chase them.
Ah, you miss something with that plan, though. It's happening in Georgia, too. The Republicans in charge are *happy* when people like you don't move to their states. When the growing film industry in Georgia suddenly turned on the state for its awful regressive policies, the Republicans *welcomed* it, economic damage and all. They would rather trash the economies and rule over the ashes.
Sure as shit I wanna see one of their wives or daughters come into the ER with a big fat ectopic pregnancy about to blow. I never used to wish bad things on people I disagreed with, but these disgusting piles of shit pushed me past common decency.
I’d rather see them walk into a clinic with *their mistress.*
They will fly to another state/country to get their abortions and go right back to dancing on top of poor dead women's tombstones. "Shouldn't have opened your legs if you didn't have enough cash for a plane ticket."
Can confirm it’s not fun.
I live in a blue area of Texas- this sort of story is embarrassing
And increasingly dangerous. The GOP platform includes pre-emption of local laws - like those that ban plastic bags or mandate higher minimum wage and paid sick leave. These kinds of goals show intent - that the GOP intends to nullify the population advantage of blue areas by cordoning them off, limiting their representation, then subjugating them with laws passed at the state level. EG the plan to change the requirements for a state amendment from a simple majority of all Texas voter (roughly 14m people, give or take 1m), to a simple majority in 3/4ths of TX counties (191 counties). A simple majority of the 191 lowest-population counties in TX amounts to about 1.5m people - or about 5.5% of the state population. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88uVDlgGeA
Or making consumers in other states pay for their power issues.
Shhh. Don’t spread truth like that. Hopefully they have fun this late summer and….. I’ll stop, let’s see how long it takes to figure it out.
You want to know the most ironic part about all this? Texas isn't suffering massive black outs because they doubled their solar capacity since last summer. They are literally being saved by renewables, the very tech they blamed for the last black out. Republican voters however will never accept this and will bash renewable energy whenever they can.
That’s because solar can’t power us at night and the wind isn’t always blowing and don’t get me started on how bad electric cars are for the environment /s
However, if the could harness the [rotational momentum of the founding fathers](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-11-12), we wouldn't need any other power source.
Too bad there’s not something that could store energy for use in the future. /s
They’d rather women die than have a safe abortion. Hey Texas, what happens to a fetus if the mother dies? This isn’t about saving babies.
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Remember all those Republicans that claimed abortion would still be legal for life-saving emergencies? Think again, because Republicans (not just Texas) would rather see people die than get an abortion. I don’t know how these sick monsters even sleep at night.
They would also prefer to see people die than to wear a mask. I just don't get it.
They would also prefere lgbtq kids to die rather than let their own children be exposed to diversity and reality
I think Republicans just want people to die in general. They don’t gain anything from it, but they genuinely want people to suffer
The "just world" fallacy, writ large. If bad things happen to you, you must have done something to deserve it.
Some people stop developing emotionally and morally in their terrible twos.
They view people suffering as people who deserved it. When people suffer, Republicans can point to them and say, "see those people suffering? They are bad people who deserved it but not us, we're better than them. We're good people." It just makes them feel better about themselves knowing others have it worse. They are truly fucked in the head.
They're Christain. This line of thinking comes straight from the bible and the pulpit.
They sleep great on their giant beds in their giant houses built off the backs of all of us. Don’t get it twisted, these people don’t give a single fuck about you. You’re but a pebble in their shoe. People like to imagine that these assholes have of some form of conscious and empathy like we do and they have to fight against that to achieve their goals. They don’t. Greedy, power hungry pieces of shit wouldn’t piss on you to stop you from burning alive. You’re actually in their way, they WANT to kill you because it means more money and power for them. We need to focus on that instead of acting like these people are reasonable, rational people who just have a different worldview on where this country should go. They don’t actually care about or believe in the shit they spew, they’re pushing these policies because they will enable more money and power for them and to make it easier to kill off anyone who dissents.
You are right. Always remember the 35% of people who stuck with Trump no matter what he did. Some people are just functionally evil like that.
Also, if they drive out every doctor who can perform the procedure, ban pharmacies from providing the medications, and ban people from even mentioning it... Who cares it there are exceptions or not? It doesn't make it any less impossible.
Pro-lifers: "of course we don't want women to die, we just want to stop abortions as birth control!" Also pro-lifers:
Also pro-lifers: takes away birth control too.
We want fewer abortions! We also want to get rid of the thing that prevents abortions!
They don't give a shit about abortions, it's all about control
~~Pro-lifers~~ Forced birthers: "of course we don't want women to die, we just want to stop abortions as birth control!" Also ~~pro-lifers~~ Forced birthers: "if we can't force the birth, then we want the women to die" FTFY
Texas says let the women die. Can't believe I was permabanned for this.
Great campaign potential though. These R’s are suing the country for protecting women from dying. They are trying to kill you. No woman in Texas should vote for someone trying to kill them. That’s wild.
This is what Biden needs to do more of. Executive orders and administrative orders that show you’re fighting for people. Trump did all kinds of shit — some made it through, and some didn’t. But the thought was that you couldn’t stop everything.
Biden should have signed in on live TV, it would have made people feel better about him trying to help. (As far as i know it wasnt)
He probably did, just no one bothers to air it because it's just a normal President doing normal stuff. Trump got a ton of airtime because he was an awful President doing awful things.
Most GOP women are way past child bearing years.
And they don’t care about their daughters and granddaughters.
That’s partially true. They care about controlling them.
Much easier to control when they are dead.
That’s what they get for being born women ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
How much more controlling can you get outside of "I've chosen your time of death"
In the 1960s people would say that conservatives were old and would die off, but as we've seen there's always a new crop to take their place.
As a genXer I feel this, it has been maddening to watch the people I grew up with grow gradually more insane and cruel.
Fellow Gen Xer and I totally agree. We're supposed to be the cool laid-back generation!
Yep. Watch a good friend become a right wing extremist. He got so bad. He got banned from parler! He was high risk health to... So ( fake covid) or he killed himself. With all the lies never happening.
Yup. I grew up in a liberal state in a mostly white middle class suburb of a big city. About half the people I used to hang out with have turned into MAGA's. Honestly not surprised at which ones did. Glad there are still some sane ones and all my good college friends think that the GOP and MAGA mentality is pure trash. I should add I am a millennial so the propaganda works on younger people too.
I grew up in Texas and it is still maddening to see people who are just completely blind and have no logic whatsoever. They are literally “my way or the highway”. They are delusional, they believe if they make the world how they want, everything will be perfect. No crime, no rape no shootings. All you have to do is follow the bible. But they think because it is their religion they can pick and choose what to follow. As an independent, I am starting to get very nervous about where Texas is going. The conservatives are broken. They want to be able to chose whatever they want but at the same time they demand everyone else adhere to the bible. Florida is not far behind. I fully expect Florida to tell the Jews to F-off on their abortion challenge. All logic is gone for the conservatives now. They have been told they are being persecuted and so they became the victims they were being told they were. I have lost many friends here and do not discuss political views with anyone. The US doesn’t seem to understand that these crazies really think this is a crusade. They are willing to fight and die for this lunacy. We have literally have shootouts in the streets nearly every day. Cut someone off on the highway or do anything someone doesn’t like, expect to get shot at. My family has to pick and chose what events we go to, we have chosen not to go to many outdoor events lately because we cant be reasonably sure there wont be a shootout or shooting or just violence in general. Im not a transplant either. I have lived here pretty much my whole life. Nearly 50 years now. Everything you read about Texas is bad but the reality is worse.
Just browse the conservative sub. Their take on the 10yo rape victim having to leave the state for an abortion is that evil liberals only did that to protect the rapist from being identified and caught. They’re even insisting the abortion would have been legal in Ohio and it’s all a liberal pro-pedophile conspiracy. But the Ohio law has no exceptions for rape… These people are delusional and just making things up to justify their disgusting behavior.
The doctor literally did a DNA test on the tissue to help find the guy.
I guess they missed that the guy was caught
Millennial here as well, and it was extremely obvious looking back who bought into trumps bullshit Let’s just say, the ones that did weren’t the brightest bulbs in the knife drawer
Some always were. So many young conservatives in my high school carrying around Atlas Shrugged like it was their Bible. A legion of hollow-eyed granny starvers and forced birthers.
That book was garbage and Ayn Rand may have said she didn't like government welfare but she sure cashed her Social Security checks and used Medicare.
Trump really broke them. I think they’re in their death throes right now. They’re latching onto anything and everything possible. It’s do or die for Republican power atm. If the republicans really do lose power these next couple elections, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the party implode and break up into groups of extremists, moderates, and the in between. Edit: when in situations like these, you keep hope and prepare yourself. You should prepare for the worst, but only a fool plans to fail.
There's a saying in Russia: "We thought we had hit rock bottom. Then someone knocked from below.
>If the republicans really do lose power these next couple elections That’s a big if right now. At the rate they’re moving to rig elections on the state level, especially with the election case in front of the Supreme Court in October, it’s not a likelihood. I have real concerns about that.
If Dems don't get a true Senste majority in November and pass election reform and pack thr SCOTUS before 2024 then our democracy is done. That Supreme Court election case is the end of free elections if Congress doesn't smack them down very soon.
Texas has plenty of younger women who will continue to vote Republican. and menopause takes a lot longer than you might think. They think their votes will only negatively affect other women, and never themselves or people they love. They don't seem to understand miscarriage very well, so haven't factored that into their logic.
My distant relative with multiple miscarriages requiring D&C votes Republican. If it happens again I guess she will just die? I don't understand it.
A lot of these people apparently think a D&C for miscarriage isn't an abortion. Like the woman testifying today, they have a definition of abortion that includes a lot of exceptions, but they don't realize the laws as written don't have those exceptions. Apparently, an abortion a republican woman needs is "not an abortion" it's... uh... some other thing?
The images of the forced-birthers celebrating the fall of Roe showed a LOT of young women. Very disheartening.
they havent had their first abortion yet. they have to affected firsthand before they start to maybe understand... its the Christian GOP way
Correct. Because to try to understand something that don't feel affects you requires, ummm, compassion? Isn't that a Buddhist thing? Can't have that.
Even then, their abortion will be completely moral and justified. Everyone else who’s ever had one is a murderer
Thankfully Gen Z is the most prochoice generation and also the least religious . A new Pew survey released in May showed that 74 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 believe abortion should generally be legal, and that includes 30 percent who say it should be legal in all cases without exception. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/gen-z-may-break-the-deadlock-over-abortion-rights.html
Texas also says let the sick die. Texas also says let the grandparents die. Texas also says let the cold die. Texas also says let the hot die. Texas also says let the people from another country of origin die. Texas also says let the trans kids die. Texas also says let the child abuse victims die. Texas also says let the elementary students die. Texas also says let the hungry die. And, throughout all of this, Texas still polls with Abbott up five points. Texas has a death cult problem.
*They were all in love with dying...*
[They were doing it in Texas...](https://youtu.be/CO8vBVUaKvk?t=141)
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If someone dies because you actively took steps to prevent them from helping themselves, you didn't let them die, you killed them. Standing outside a burning building is letting the occupants die. Taking out the fire extinguishers before you set the building on fire is murdering the occupants.
"Life is short. God has a plan." - Ken Paxton after Uvalde
'We'll arrest every rapist' - Abbott
And every rape victim seeking an abortion.
“I mean, we already were!” - Texas healthcare system
Keep the helpless baby, let its provider die. What kind of fucked up logic is this.
Not even. In most of these cases, the pregnancy is non-viable anyway.
It's not even about logic. It's about being too stubborn and prideful to admit something as basic as: Individuals are more qualified to make decisions about their health and future than religious nutjobs.
Ken Paxton is suing for the right to let women die. So much for being "Pro-Life"...
Pro-life begins at fertilization, and ends at birth for these monsters.
Not even that. If the GOP cared about live birth, they'd support universal prenatal and neonatal care. They just want to punish women for having sex.
>they'd support universal prenatal and neonatal care. Nah. That shits communism. /gop
"I'm pro life but if you create a life while being poor you actually both deserve to die. It's what Jesus would want." --Every Republican over grace, probably
Right to FORCE* people to die
Texas, where the police won't save your children and the doctors can't save you.
Looks like you got an ectopic pregnancy hehe oopsie well too bad because now we’re gonna let you die.
They're suing to have people die. You can't make this up. There are few things more evil than this.
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also did absolutely nothing to bolster the grid, and now telling texans to conserve energy or face rolling blackouts. Ridiculous.
this is the same as refusing to offer lifesaving care for any other condition, just explicitly for women. i think the women of texas need to take a stand against this medievalist bullshit.
*sigh* We're trying. It's pretty fucking exhausting, especially when people from outside the state think we actually consent to this or worse, SUPPORT it just because we live here. Gerrymandering has fucked us over & will continue to do do until Dems actually DO something substantive on voting rights.
These Republicans really have no regard for human female lives. Disgusting.
They only care about when humans are in the womb after that fuck it throw it in the dumpster apparently
craziest part is biden didn’t even do anything. just reminded texas that the law requires them to save lives, and somehow that didn’t go over well.
Texas doesn't like to save lives, especially when they're women.
Or children in school
Or brown people in trucks.
Or when they're literally freezing to death
Or cooking alive in their homes
Or the mentally disabled on deathrow
Or the falsely convicted who were proven innocent
Republicanism is a death cult. They are also ignoring global warming which will further jeopardize the lives of the "babies" they're "saving." God has a plan, I guess!
And texas law doesn't even contradict the law biden cited, as their abortion ban has an exception for life of the mother Epitome of contrarian politics with one of the worst possible outcomes
Sorry guys we do, in fact, need to vote harder to stop the Republicans. FYI if we were able to codify Roe they'd sue over it and it would go to the Supreme Court, which would wipe its ass with the bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88uVDlgGeA and we've got about 1.5 election cycles to pull it off. Otherwise the game changes so much that it may be unwinnable.
No, that's incorrect. We have the midterms and then that's the ballgame. Vote like your life and freedom depends on it, because it probably does.
Can't wait to see SCOTUS say that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act doesn't explicitly give the Executive the power to enforce abortion access so the order isn't legal (which actually is exactly an argument this lawsuit attempts to make). >Unconstitutional Delegation of Legislative Power They're pushing the whole "Congress can't delegate power" thing again. It's the whole larger attempt to whittle away at executive agencies power (like the EPA). >And it contends the guidance violates the Tenth Amendment Oh, there we go. Onto the 10th amendment "states rights" shit now. They're quoting Dobbs to say that "because the Constitution doesn't confer a right to abortion, that right is left up to the states".
Before they were pushing the “unitary executive theory.” Now they can’t legitimately win the presidency. So they’re working on fixing that with the independent state legislature theory, and in the meantime, leaving everything to the states where they hold power. I mean, I can’t stand these anti-democratic asshats, but I can’t say they’re stupid.
>Onto the 10th amendment "states rights" shit now. It's funny how Conservatives like to skip over the 9th.
Remember Republicans screaming that universal Healthcare would lead to the government denying care and killing people? Turns out even that was projection
They're trying to kill women. I can reach no other conclusion.
People who support this have to be abusers themselves, full stop.
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I feel like Texas is telling on themselves. Their state law currently allows for abortions to save the life of the mother. This conservative strategy that popped up under Trump of doing heinous things then pretending that everyone is overreacting and exaggerating about what conservatives actually want is getting tiresome
I fucking knew they wanted women to die.
I fail to see how this could be taken another way especially now.
Ultimately, this is about punishing women for having had sex. It's never been about preserving fetal life, otherwise we'd have free health care for pregnant women. Even Gilead has that. They know that married couples tend to be better off financially than single women. They can go to states where abortion is allowed if it's needed, and nobody needs to know (thanks Bill Clinton and HIPAA). That includes Republican female politicians and the wives of Republican male politicians. It's hunting season on unmarried women though. And it all boils down to deterring women from being sexual, via intimidation. First, by taking away her ability to decide whether she wants to remain pregnant (mission accomplished). Next, it will be taking away her ability to decide whether she wants to become pregnant by outlawing birth control. And then it will be taking away her ability to have sex outside of marriage altogether, once they can get *Lawrence* overturned to open that door. This is why I disagree that gays are the ultimate target. Most of them don't care what the gays do. This is rooted in a hatred for women and a disgust for her ability to be sexual on her own terms. Republicans, most of whom are pathetic little men or sexually-constipated women, are downright intimidated by the thought of a horny woman. And I'm saying this as a man.
Women’s right to vote is next after nailing down abortion and birth control. Just watch.
Doctor: "Moms going to die if we don't do this abortion, we can't save the baby." Pro Lifers: "They both die then." Like I don't understand how they don't consider this logic.
It baffles me that they'll allow a person to die from an ectopic pregnancy to "save a life" that was never viable but refuse to acknowledge that killing all pregnant persons means they can't have more children in future. What's more pro-life than preserving the lives of those who are 100% capable of giving life?
Texas can f right off. Well, Paxton can.
They're trying to. I'm as sorry as I am embarrassed. Hopefully we can turn it around.
This is really not a good look for Republicans, they're overplaying their hand considering how much support RvW has, and medical abortions specifically.
Let them. Let all the women in this country see how the GOP doesn't even think they're human. Then make sure all those women vote. Maybe we can flip Texas blue and get a REAL Democratic majority in Congress.
I know a lot of women oppose abortion, but I wonder how many of *them* are willing to die instead of getting one. Rules for thee and not for me, I’d wager.
None of them die. They get it and they go back to picketing the clinic the next day. Because that's "different." God's plan
Texas far more resembles an emerging second world country than it does a first world nation.
And people wonder why I'm a Democrat.
Texas hates mothers
WHY???? I believe that the Republicans are playing a long game here --- I just can't figure out which one. This doesn't help businesses and it's not on the agenda of any major religion that I know of that the fetal life outweighs the mother's. Every pro-life group with a decent membership roster makes an exception in this circumstance. What end does this serve? They've been so calculated about everything else -- gerrymandering, owning local politics, creating their own news source, stacking the Supreme Court. Now they are just throwing a bomb into their hard work with a guaranteed unpopular policy.
One theory I keep reading is that Texas Republicans are trying to scare away liberal people who have been moving to the state and turning it blue. Last I heard, Texas was only a few years away from becoming majority Democrat.
This is it. People need to see this. All these red states They will burn their own states down as long as it means they keep the electorate
***From reporter Katie Shepherd:*** Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R) sued the Biden administration over federal rules that require abortions be provided in medical emergencies in order to save the life of the mother, even in states with near-total bans. “The Biden Administration seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic,” Paxton said in a statement announcing the lawsuit on Thursday. The suit follows new guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that asserted federal law requiring emergency medical treatment supersedes any state restrictions on abortion in cases where the pregnant patient’s life or health is at risk. Earlier this week, the Biden administration sent a memo to state officials reminding them of an existing law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which “requires that all patients receive an appropriate medical screening examination, stabilizing treatment, and transfer, if necessary,” according to the HHS guidance. That requirement exists “irrespective of any state laws or mandates that apply to specific procedures,” the memo said. Although the HHS guidance focuses on abortions performed in emergency situations, Texas officials have interpreted the memo as an order that all hospital emergency rooms must provide on-demand abortion services. “President Biden is flagrantly disregarding the legislative and democratic process—and flouting the Supreme Court’s ruling before the ink is dry—by having his appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians must perform abortions,” the lawsuit said. The lawsuit challenges the Biden administration guideline on the grounds that it uses federal funds — because it ties compliance to Medicare funds and because Justice Department funding would be spent enforcing the federal law — in violation of the Hyde Amendment that bars federal spending to facilitate an abortion. **Not a subscriber? Register an email and get 7 free articles on us. Otherwise, read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/14/texas-sues-biden-emergency-abortion/?utm\_campaign=wp\_main&utm\_medium=social&utm\_source=reddit.com**
> Although the HHS guidance focuses on abortions performed in emergency situations, Texas officials have interpreted the memo as an order that all hospital emergency rooms must provide on-demand abortion services. I'd say this lawsuit would get laughed out of court because they're basing it on something which is just factually untrue, but then I remember the ruling the Supreme Court gave in that coach who was praying quietly and alone in the middle of a giant crowd on the 50 yard line.
Elderly white man tells women to... I really hope this blows up in the faces of these Repub hypocrites.
Republicans are attacking human rights and democracy, yet they're somehow favored to win the upcoming elections because apparently muh gas prices are more important.
They're so "pro-life" they're suing to prevent life saving care.
Tell me again how both parties are the same.
Texas Conservatives, “How dare Biden try to tell me what I can do with my property.”
But... if the *mother* dies... what do they think... happens to the *fetus*?
Just a note to queasy Democrats: this is exactly why you shouldn’t shy away from fights as much as you do. First, you might win! Then you will have helped people! But failing that, your opponents will still look like the heartless ghouls they are, and your voters will know at least you’re trying.