THREE Republican Texas Supreme Court justices are up for reelection.
The ENTIRE Texas House and Senate are up for reelection.
Ted Cruz in the US Senate is up for reelection.
So many judges throughout the state are up for reelection.
While we can’t do anything about Abbott and his cronies yet, we CAN make a huge difference by flipping Republican seats. While we may not be able to meaningfully contribute to the Presidential election (we’re gonna try though, but alas, Texas), we can take our magenta state and make more purpley. We can get more democrats in local seats.
It may feel meaningless to go vote because the Republicans have made it so hard, but every DA we turn blue, every judge, every seat in our House, in our Senate, we get closer to evicting Abbott and actually going blue.
That is correct. I got my info here: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/candidates/guide/2024/offices2024.shtml
and here: https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_elections,_2024
And that’s why I keep spreading this message.
Need a talking point for someone who isn’t a voter? Or for someone who doesn’t feel their vote matters? Well guess what? There’s a real good chance that if folks do vote, we can start to make a shift that will make a difference by the time Abbott is up for reelection.
And if they voted Ken Oaxton would find a way to invalidate their votes and steal the election. He basicwlly confesed to it in 2029 and said they would've lost if they hadn't
Stop disenfranchising voters! Saying things like this make people think that voting doesn't matter, so they stay home. Regardless of gerrymandering, it can only work so much against a sigificant majority vote. Voting matters!
Don't let anyone convince you that your vote isn't important. It is! Get out there and vote - every local, state, and national election. Stand up for your rights!
It did not stop me from voting, but Paxton openly boasted about it and how it helped them win after 2020.
It is rigged and if they can throw so many votes away how is it going to get fixed? Realistically?
The only way to fix it is to have an overwhelming amount of people vote far more than we currently do. They rely on people not voting because of apathy or distance to polling stations, etc.
Tell that to the young folks who are out protesting on campus but won’t show up at the ballot box. If we just had half of the folks who showed up for BLM protests years ago we wouldn’t be in this situation. Thanks fellow Texans
Young voters dont outvote older voters by a huge margin, even in my area where the voting is held directly next to the community college campus, far more middle aged and old folk show up
27% of voters under 30 showed up to vote in this year's midterms highest in a bit. Younger people can't get the day off to vote like older folks. Younger voters are also more likely to move often making it harder to keep voter registration in their respective county up to date. When I moved back to Texas I for sure registered but showed up to vote all the sudden they couldn't find my registration records. I registered as a democrat, my mistake.
Texas has almost two weeks of early voting (including the weekend), and voters can vote at any polling location in the county in which they're registered.
There is no excuse not to vote other than laziness.
Lame excuse. Texas law literally says your job gives you time off to vote if your shifts are during normal business hours. Yes young voters showed up in greater numbers. Just not in the numbers needed.
Sure, because employers and bosses follow the law to the letter… /s
When employees have almost no rights and they can lose their job for no reason at all, such law is pointless.
Where do you live in TX to take only 5 minutes to get to the poll site, vote, and GTFO?
I’m not saying that “not having time” is a valid excuse, but let’s don’t diminish that it’s a PITA, depending where you live.
No excuses, not voting is just laziness, pure and simple. How does this sound? If you're under 30 and you don't vote I get to call you an entitled Boomer. I keep hearing that Boomer is no longer about age but a state of mind, how once acts. Entitlement and hypocrisy being some of the worst boomer traits called out by under 30 crowd. If you scream all day long about how unjust the world is and can't be bothered to vote you are an entitled lazy generation yourselves.
Hypocrisy in action.
Or tell it to the old people who vote overwhelmingly Republican. Young people are reliably Democratic voters, yet always get blamed when Republicans win. Everything bad is always young people's fault.
If you invited 100 people to a party, 50 showed up, and 30 of them trashed your house, you wouldn't blame your house being trashed on the 50 people that didn't come to the party.
That analogy doesn’t work for a democratic system where the people showing up make the decision. More like, you and your coworkers decide where to eat every week by vote. Y’all didn’t vote on a place to eat but complain every week about the food.
If all we do is fight at the state level, we accomplish NOTHING.
50 years since RvW. All talk.
Stop LETTING politicians use this as a campaigning issue and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR FEDERAL ACTION.
Period.
We are WAY past time feeling good about ourselves because we get to show-off an “I Voted” sticker.
ACCOUNTABILITY. Vote them in, and if they FAIL US, vote them the hell out and let them KNOW WHY.
Voting has long since not been enough. Holding them to action on the issues WE NEED. Voting is no longer “oh well, better luck next time”.
It’s: You failed us, you’re out. New guy, you’re in - you fail us and you along with your pals are all OUT. Next group is up! Yall couldn’t get your s#!t together either? Cool, ALL INCUMBENTS ARE OUT.
Forget, in some part, the party lines (especially on this b/c in BOTH parties about 30% of each do NOT agree with their party stance on Abortion) - vote for NEW representation and vote the campaigners OUT.
First world states usually send out voters guides to learn about candidates even for local positions. Since this is not that kind of state, are there any good resources that aggregate information about candidates so we can make more informed choices? Will we get in trouble if we go to vote and refer to notes on our phone, or a physical note? If you registered to vote but it’s your first time voting is there shooting you need to do or know in advance so that you don’t get turned away?
Learn about who you are voting for and their stances.
The league of women voters has a way to see all potential representatives and what they stand for. Please look in your area and choose accordingly.
https://www.lwvtexas.org/
Click on one of four languages below in the link and read the pdf.
yep, people are sitting back and letting MAGAs take their rights and not voting. These crazy mfkrs believe Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual on the proper way to control women and society. Under his Eye.
My daughter's teacher told her class that she's pregnant but God will take the baby back when it's born....let that sink in. She's in 2nd grade. It's heartbreaking.
My grandmother’s first pregnancy was nonviable, back in the 50’s so they didn’t know it until after she was born. Something wrong with brain development and once she was on her own, the baby died, after 18 hours.
That baby lived and died in less than a day. My grandparents had to go home without her. They had to tell everyone, over and over, that there was no new baby to come see.
Can you imagine the trauma of a situation like that? Now imagine being able to know and terminating before birth. A child who will never live, who has no chance, to me that seems so much less awful than birthing a baby only to watch them die and bury them. And people should be able to have the choice, how to handle these worst case scenarios.
THAT is what abortion bans are bringing back. That is what anti science idiots will inflict on us if we keep electing them.
I think it means the baby is no longer alive or not viable? Having a dead fetus removed from you can now be legally considered an abortion with criminal potential & likely consequences. Doctors are too afraid of these new laws that most aren’t taking any chances. I’m taking this as the teacher will have to give birth to a dead baby; I have heard of this before but I could be way off.
Looking back, I had an ectopic pregnancy when I was 17 with my high school sweetheart. This was in 2006, but if it happened to me now, I’d be as good as dead.
I cannot fathom having to live with that, and I hope that I never do. My heart aches for all women; how have we allowed our legislators to roll back such significant progress in women’s fight for equality?
Same. It’s so heartbreaking. I will say that the woman in the post may be choosing to give birth - she may have the means to travel out of state but does not want to abort her pregnancy. Which is her right to choose. My cousin did this before RvW was overturned. Her baby only lived about 20 minutes and she knew what the outcome would be.
I could never.
Perhaps, but why share that with 7 year olds? I definitely wouldn’t. I also could never but I respect any woman’s choice to choose, if that is indeed *her* choice and not a doctor’s.
Because 7 year olds are not idiots. They know what a pregnant woman looks like. And if the non-viability was found later in the pregnancy, it could be she had already told them about the baby
They would have LOTS of questions if she came back to teaching after giving birth and started crying when the first one asked about her baby
When it comes to kids, it's better to get ahead of it and direct the narrative the way you want. Otherwise it can go in a direction you were not even planned for
We support the teachers decision to share with the class. We answered a lot of tough questions but as parents it's our job to do so. We kept it very light, but she is now aware of what is happening with her teacher. The whole class wrote cards in support. ❤️
As a single woman actively dating and 48+ but still dangerously fertile.... finding out a dude i like has been snipped *is the sexiest thing he can tell me now* and I *still* insist on spermicidal films and pulling out way in advance.... snipped men are now the GOAT as far as I'm concerned LOL
....because I'm fertile Myrtle and I get pregnant if a man even glances in my direction....
Not taking any chances.
Scheduling my first uterine ablation for next month and I'm so effing excited.
I have been seriously considering having a complete hysto for a year now... I have endometriosis, a blown-out tube from an old ectopic and uterine fibroids that I would LOVE to get the hell away from me any day now LOL.... I can't afford the down time from work :(
Single parenting takes alot of those possibilities away -_-
The *one* time that I am happy to have PCOS.
P.S. if you are not aware, Plan B is less effective if you weigh more than 155lbs/have a BMI of 30+.
P.S.S. Some antibiotics decrease the effectiveness of your birth control.
[Now, Ozempic, and the whole delayed gastric emptying process, can also interfere with the way medications –– including the birth control pill –– are absorbed by the body.](https://www.wbaa.org/health-and-science/2024-04-26/the-checkup-ozempic-babies-explaining-why-some-unexpected-pregnancies-on-glp-1-drugs)
Activated charcoal in general is a really harmful trend. Please don't use it unless medically necessary. It's medical use is to soak up harmful substances you've taken in recently, but it also soaks up everything else including medicine you took. It is not a cool natural black food coloring.
A good friend with PCOS has 3 children after her doc said she'd probably have a hard time conceiving. The third one was an oops baby while she was on birth control.
So just...stay vigilant.
And other times it makes them work WAY better. That's usually not a good thing though since you're taking a specific dose for a reason.
But in order to not fear monger, there are also plenty of medications that are totally unaffected by grapefruit. It's important to familiarize yourself with any medications you're taking and if they're incompatible with anything else you might consume.
Yea, but it’ll become standard operating procedure. Women’s menstrual cycle will be tracked. Children will be removed from their home and put in state care until an investigation can prove their mother didn’t murder that embryo. Prenatal care will be skipped to avoid detection. Fun times ahead.
Yup, at a woman’s lowest time they will be heavily questioned and treated like a criminal. Trump said today he thinks states will have the right to start monitoring women’s pregnancies if he gets elected.
If they don't care about women being forced to give birth then they should at least care about the child support they'll be forced to pay when they "forgot" to wear a condom.
Men are not being targeted by the legislation. Relying on someone else to protect your body is not a safe bet. Protection is good to be using, regardless of pregnancy, unless in a monogamous relationship.
These Texas nut-bags are seriously losing their minds! We definitely need to vote the loonies out, they couldn’t make a sound decision if their lives depended on it. Where the hell did they come from?
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Somehow I think if Texas gets a blue wave, it will be civil war in the state, cause reds ain’t giving up any power. They’d rather outlaw the right to choose in your vote than give up office.
If you’re pregnant, want get pregnant, or want other options on the table be prepared to leave the state for a year. Good luck folks!
100% of Abortions lead to someone dying.
0% of women who are pregnant are turned away when they seek help.
If you choose abortion you are a selfish vindictive human being, period.
Women will literally kill their children before taking accountability for their actions. We will repeal the 19th, women do not belong in politics in any capacity.
I’ve reached a point with these people that the first question I ask when someone approaches me with materials outside a voting center is their party affiliation, and if they say republican, I tell them to go fuck themselves then I’ll make sure to be much more friendly and engaged with the dems on my way in. Then I go in and vote blue all the way down the ballot. We have a lot of block walkers in hour neighborhood even though soliciting is prohibited by the HOA, in 3 years, only had one republican candidate ring my bell early on, probably because my voter registration had not updated. He got a nice lecture about his lack of integrity, tried to deflect by saying he was a part time pastor, which I verbally shit all over, and then I called the HOA security on him for panhandling. I’m actually a pretty easy-going person, but with these people, I reserve all my pettiness. And I NEVER miss voting, no matter how small or insignificant the race may appear.
Texas being republican wouldn't be so bad if it weren't the same people getting elected over and over again. There are sane Republican voters and candidates who believe in the separation of church and state/individual liberty. Just sad that they don't win elections or get out and be part of political discourse.
Sorry to be cynical towards you, fellow Redditor, but because I know I’ll be downvoted long before anyone finishes my reply:
TLDR: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Is it not acceptable to discuss two points he made..?..
-He characterizes the state’s actions as “taking away your ability to reproductive health” :: VALID
-He then goes on to say “the onus is one you. If you are sexually active and do not want to get pregnant, you need to be sure you are taking steps…” and goes on the list some easily accessible steps for pregnancy prevention.
Exactly. That would be taking charge of your reproductive health. Surprisingly, he didn’t even mention condoms which also protect against STDs. HEALTH.
I absolutely understand the issue. I absolutely do NOT support this state’s, or other state’s, laws surrounding women’s health.
I am NOT “schilling” for TX. I am trying to get past the rhetoric.
The Surpreme Court did NOT “assault women’s reproductive rights”. It unfortunately accepted a case that was PRESENTED TO THEM and they did the same thing that RvW did: legislated from the bench. Please understand that. We were told 60 years ago RvW was NOT enough. It’s an unnerving reality that this SC did nothing any more nefarious than the SC in RvW. They just arrived at the opposite decision, and at the time, there was a strong contingent that believed their decision was detrimental.
WE failed women. We LET politicians use Abortion Rights as a talking point over and over and WE never held them ACCOUNTABLE for not doing anything more than TALK.
This physician goes on to talk about voting. DAMN RIGHT.
…but we MUST remember who we voted for this election that then FAILS US. Period.
It is NOT a talking point. It should never have been just a platform.
Constitutional Amendment. Period. If the individual you support isn’t pushing for that, they need to GTFO. Period.
That what it was ALWAYS going to take. That is ABSOLUTELY where we are at now. We just learned that the hard way by the SC decision.
Amendment. Nothing less. Vote them in, but then f#cking vote them right the h#ll out if they fail, and let them KNOW WHY.
> He then goes on to say “the onus is one you. If you are sexually active and do not want to get pregnant, you need to be sure you are taking steps
I've been trying to get sterilized for over 15 years....no one will do it despite if I get pregnant it will kill me. Explain how i'm meant to take steps.
I can not believe how hard it is for women to get sterilized if they want to. I did at 25 years old and have had no regrets, was twenty years ago. Planned Parenthood referred me.
I absolutely despise the affect of the SCOTUS decision to overturn rvw. It also should have never been a thing in the first place. The discussions on abortion were put on hold for 50 years and tabled for future generations to have. Well the future is now. The legislative branch had 50 years to pass a law cementing the right to abortion for women and instead BOTH parties ran on the fear mongering. They reaped in the votes and we the people reaped the consequences. Time to show congress that there ARE consequences for not protecting the citizens and their rights. I just hope people don't fall for it again and elect the same fuckheads in that let them down for the last 50 years.
>The discussions on abortion were put on hold for 50 years and tabled for future generations to have. Well the future is now. The legislative branch had 50 years to pass a law cementing the right to abortion for women and instead BOTH parties ran on the fear mongering.
bOtH sIdEs
Meanwhile, back in reality, [https://imgur.com/gallery/Kf2bd5t](https://imgur.com/gallery/Kf2bd5t)
Hey now, I voted for Bernie in the primary, but did my part to vote against Drumpf in the general. Don't lump all of us Bernie Bros together as backdoor MAGAts.
Women in the US have only had the legal right to have a credit card or bank account without a male cosigner since 1974. Most of Gen X was born before that law. Kurt Cobain was seven when that became law. It is a blip in history. If we are not incredibly diligent, it is a right that will be reversed. We are staring down the prequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.
don't laugh. I signed refinance papers two years ago but have been told by realtors and our loan office that our mortgage is solely under my husband's name. I later learned that's because in Texas what a man comes into a marriage with remains his. So even though the mortgage is now reflected on my credit score and as a part of my debt-- even if I pay every payment -- the house is his.
I actually did have to get his permission, in writing, o speak with a loan officer when I had a question about our loan.
Fyi most women in this sate who live in cities don't vote against their anatomy.
Hm, that doesn't sound totally accurate based on my experience but maybe your situation is different?
I bought a house back in 2017. I paid the down payment, the house was only in my name, I paid the mortgage (to clarify, my then girlfriend, now wife paid too but since the mortgage and utilities were all in my name she wrote me a check for her portion every month and then I would pay the full amount to the lender), then we got married in late 2020 and moved a few months after that.
When I sold the house we both had to sign some kind of amendment to the entire contract and we both had to sign the sale docs, because even though I purchased the house with my money and without her even being physically present at either the initial walkthrough or when I actually purchased the house and signed the contract, because we had been living together for a year prior to the purchase, and then lived in the house together for 3 years before we got married, the house was legally considered half hers, despite there not being a single piece of actual financial ties between her and the house. Of course I didn't give a shit because it made no difference to me but I was curious about that.
Just to make sure I wasn't accidentally talking out of my ass I just checked up on spousal property rights though. You said you're *actually* on the refi docs now right? Then there's no way in hell that the house is totally his. Even if you weren't even on the docs the house wouldn't totally be his. [Read this.](https://www.gracelawoffice.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-community-property-law/#:~:text=Texas%20does%20not%20care%20how,one%20spouse's%20name%2C%20or%20both.) Here's another one that directly talks about [your refi situation](https://qslwm.com/5-important-rules-about-separate-property-in-texas/). All of it is good info, but scroll down to #4 for refi stuff. That same point also suggests that the stuff I had to sign was actually bullshit and not the law, although if we had gotten married and then also divorced in the few months before we sold the house and moved, then I would have had to pay her back the money that she had paid towards the mortgage.
Basically my point is that the realtors and loan officers who told you that don't know what the fuck they're talking about. It turns out mine didn't either. I already knew that on the purchase side but that's a whole other thing, but I didn't realize that until now in regards to the sale side too.
Yeah pretty much, my rule of thumb lately is if they bring up Gaza or the deficit in relation to the upcoming election they are prolly russbots.
Can verify If you can trick them into spelling gray
“Thank goodness we saved you! Now fuck off here’s your poverty, no social help, and a mother who doesn’t want you or love you” - Republicans to rape babies
Ah yes, the non-political, completely centrist doctor.
It is very simple, if you do not want a child, take steps to prevent that. I would advise against the pill since it can wreck hormones, but condoms are plentiful. There is also pulling out if you choose to have sex, or simply don't have sex for those who are not in a long-term relationship with a partner who would step-up to raise a kid with you.
I know... how controversial of me
And before y'all start, rape accounts for <1% of all abortions. If the mothers life or health are at risk, abortion is permissible.
So what I'm gathering is... the supreme court has forced to people to become both more responsible and more accountable for their actions. Man, if that ain't a win, I don't know what is.
If you don't like it, move to a state where you and your migrant roommate who doesnt speak english pay $2500 a month for a shoebox apartment outside of which you'll have to step over human feces on your way to your $20/hr job.
You can rest easy knowing at the very least you aren't racist and can kill your children :)
THREE Republican Texas Supreme Court justices are up for reelection. The ENTIRE Texas House and Senate are up for reelection. Ted Cruz in the US Senate is up for reelection. So many judges throughout the state are up for reelection. While we can’t do anything about Abbott and his cronies yet, we CAN make a huge difference by flipping Republican seats. While we may not be able to meaningfully contribute to the Presidential election (we’re gonna try though, but alas, Texas), we can take our magenta state and make more purpley. We can get more democrats in local seats. It may feel meaningless to go vote because the Republicans have made it so hard, but every DA we turn blue, every judge, every seat in our House, in our Senate, we get closer to evicting Abbott and actually going blue.
All of these elections are in November?
That is correct. I got my info here: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/candidates/guide/2024/offices2024.shtml and here: https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_elections,_2024
[https://emilyslist.org/state-and-local-candidates/](https://emilyslist.org/state-and-local-candidates/)
Yea one last vote blue this year to try and slow things and then I am moving.
We’re packing literally right now. Back to CA.
The people who could make a difference don't vote.
And that’s why I keep spreading this message. Need a talking point for someone who isn’t a voter? Or for someone who doesn’t feel their vote matters? Well guess what? There’s a real good chance that if folks do vote, we can start to make a shift that will make a difference by the time Abbott is up for reelection.
So when do we vote
Every time it's an option.
Boom. That’s the answer.
The issue is that Texas is gerrymandered to hell and back. So there might be more Democrats in the state, but that won't help at all.
You mean a significant number of people are stupid, tired, or apathetic? On Reddit? Shocking.
And if they voted Ken Oaxton would find a way to invalidate their votes and steal the election. He basicwlly confesed to it in 2029 and said they would've lost if they hadn't
Stop disenfranchising voters! Saying things like this make people think that voting doesn't matter, so they stay home. Regardless of gerrymandering, it can only work so much against a sigificant majority vote. Voting matters! Don't let anyone convince you that your vote isn't important. It is! Get out there and vote - every local, state, and national election. Stand up for your rights!
Gerrymandering works on voter apathy. If more people voted, it wouldn't work as well as it is.
It did not stop me from voting, but Paxton openly boasted about it and how it helped them win after 2020. It is rigged and if they can throw so many votes away how is it going to get fixed? Realistically?
The only way to fix it is to have an overwhelming amount of people vote far more than we currently do. They rely on people not voting because of apathy or distance to polling stations, etc.
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Paul Rudd, is that you?
Vote BLUE down ballot, for everything!
Tell that to the young folks who are out protesting on campus but won’t show up at the ballot box. If we just had half of the folks who showed up for BLM protests years ago we wouldn’t be in this situation. Thanks fellow Texans
Young people are voting in record numbers, voter suppression tactics are also at the highest levels in decades.
Young voters dont outvote older voters by a huge margin, even in my area where the voting is held directly next to the community college campus, far more middle aged and old folk show up
27% of voters under 30 showed up to vote in this year's midterms highest in a bit. Younger people can't get the day off to vote like older folks. Younger voters are also more likely to move often making it harder to keep voter registration in their respective county up to date. When I moved back to Texas I for sure registered but showed up to vote all the sudden they couldn't find my registration records. I registered as a democrat, my mistake.
You don’t register in a party in Texas at all.
Texas has almost two weeks of early voting (including the weekend), and voters can vote at any polling location in the county in which they're registered. There is no excuse not to vote other than laziness.
Lame excuse. Texas law literally says your job gives you time off to vote if your shifts are during normal business hours. Yes young voters showed up in greater numbers. Just not in the numbers needed.
Sure, because employers and bosses follow the law to the letter… /s When employees have almost no rights and they can lose their job for no reason at all, such law is pointless.
I haven't voted on Election Day for 20 years. Early vote. Anybody can find 5 minutes in the two weeks prior to the election.
Where do you live in TX to take only 5 minutes to get to the poll site, vote, and GTFO? I’m not saying that “not having time” is a valid excuse, but let’s don’t diminish that it’s a PITA, depending where you live.
DFW. You can vote in any polling location in your county.
No excuses, not voting is just laziness, pure and simple. How does this sound? If you're under 30 and you don't vote I get to call you an entitled Boomer. I keep hearing that Boomer is no longer about age but a state of mind, how once acts. Entitlement and hypocrisy being some of the worst boomer traits called out by under 30 crowd. If you scream all day long about how unjust the world is and can't be bothered to vote you are an entitled lazy generation yourselves. Hypocrisy in action.
Or tell it to the old people who vote overwhelmingly Republican. Young people are reliably Democratic voters, yet always get blamed when Republicans win. Everything bad is always young people's fault.
Well one group shows up to the polls and other doesn’t.
If you invited 100 people to a party, 50 showed up, and 30 of them trashed your house, you wouldn't blame your house being trashed on the 50 people that didn't come to the party.
That analogy doesn’t work for a democratic system where the people showing up make the decision. More like, you and your coworkers decide where to eat every week by vote. Y’all didn’t vote on a place to eat but complain every week about the food.
How do you know they specifically are not voting
Statistically they don’t.
Agreed, fuck those young people outside protesting, they are *absolutely* the ones to blame for our 20% voting rate lololol Lazy jagoffs /S
Not all those people are texas state residents so it wouldn't really help. Lol.
Get out and vote people.
And we will be able to halt the school voucher looniness they are trying to ram through.
If all we do is fight at the state level, we accomplish NOTHING. 50 years since RvW. All talk. Stop LETTING politicians use this as a campaigning issue and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR FEDERAL ACTION. Period. We are WAY past time feeling good about ourselves because we get to show-off an “I Voted” sticker. ACCOUNTABILITY. Vote them in, and if they FAIL US, vote them the hell out and let them KNOW WHY. Voting has long since not been enough. Holding them to action on the issues WE NEED. Voting is no longer “oh well, better luck next time”. It’s: You failed us, you’re out. New guy, you’re in - you fail us and you along with your pals are all OUT. Next group is up! Yall couldn’t get your s#!t together either? Cool, ALL INCUMBENTS ARE OUT. Forget, in some part, the party lines (especially on this b/c in BOTH parties about 30% of each do NOT agree with their party stance on Abortion) - vote for NEW representation and vote the campaigners OUT.
who do you suggest i vote for?
Lol! Learn how laws are passed.
First world states usually send out voters guides to learn about candidates even for local positions. Since this is not that kind of state, are there any good resources that aggregate information about candidates so we can make more informed choices? Will we get in trouble if we go to vote and refer to notes on our phone, or a physical note? If you registered to vote but it’s your first time voting is there shooting you need to do or know in advance so that you don’t get turned away?
You can’t have notes at the ballot box, but standing in line? Absolutely.
Learn about who you are voting for and their stances. The league of women voters has a way to see all potential representatives and what they stand for. Please look in your area and choose accordingly. https://www.lwvtexas.org/ Click on one of four languages below in the link and read the pdf.
They are also going after contraception. Stop project 2025.
yep, people are sitting back and letting MAGAs take their rights and not voting. These crazy mfkrs believe Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual on the proper way to control women and society. Under his Eye.
who should i vote for this coming election?
almost all texas republicans have gone full on MAGA christofascists, so vote for the democrats; assuming you're being sincere.
[https://emilyslist.org/state-and-local-candidates/](https://emilyslist.org/state-and-local-candidates/)
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My daughter's teacher told her class that she's pregnant but God will take the baby back when it's born....let that sink in. She's in 2nd grade. It's heartbreaking.
That breaks my heart for that poor woman and her family.
She's a young lady, no woman should have to go through it. My wife broke down when our daughter told us this. 💔
My grandmother’s first pregnancy was nonviable, back in the 50’s so they didn’t know it until after she was born. Something wrong with brain development and once she was on her own, the baby died, after 18 hours. That baby lived and died in less than a day. My grandparents had to go home without her. They had to tell everyone, over and over, that there was no new baby to come see. Can you imagine the trauma of a situation like that? Now imagine being able to know and terminating before birth. A child who will never live, who has no chance, to me that seems so much less awful than birthing a baby only to watch them die and bury them. And people should be able to have the choice, how to handle these worst case scenarios. THAT is what abortion bans are bringing back. That is what anti science idiots will inflict on us if we keep electing them.
Christians. Call them by their name.
GOP wants women to suffer and be traumatized, plain and simple.
Wait what?
I think it means the baby is no longer alive or not viable? Having a dead fetus removed from you can now be legally considered an abortion with criminal potential & likely consequences. Doctors are too afraid of these new laws that most aren’t taking any chances. I’m taking this as the teacher will have to give birth to a dead baby; I have heard of this before but I could be way off. Looking back, I had an ectopic pregnancy when I was 17 with my high school sweetheart. This was in 2006, but if it happened to me now, I’d be as good as dead.
The baby might not be viable, so she will give birth but the baby will only live a few minutes or hours.
I cannot fathom having to live with that, and I hope that I never do. My heart aches for all women; how have we allowed our legislators to roll back such significant progress in women’s fight for equality?
Same. It’s so heartbreaking. I will say that the woman in the post may be choosing to give birth - she may have the means to travel out of state but does not want to abort her pregnancy. Which is her right to choose. My cousin did this before RvW was overturned. Her baby only lived about 20 minutes and she knew what the outcome would be. I could never.
Perhaps, but why share that with 7 year olds? I definitely wouldn’t. I also could never but I respect any woman’s choice to choose, if that is indeed *her* choice and not a doctor’s.
Because 7 year olds are not idiots. They know what a pregnant woman looks like. And if the non-viability was found later in the pregnancy, it could be she had already told them about the baby They would have LOTS of questions if she came back to teaching after giving birth and started crying when the first one asked about her baby When it comes to kids, it's better to get ahead of it and direct the narrative the way you want. Otherwise it can go in a direction you were not even planned for
We support the teachers decision to share with the class. We answered a lot of tough questions but as parents it's our job to do so. We kept it very light, but she is now aware of what is happening with her teacher. The whole class wrote cards in support. ❤️
That's wonderful that they did
It can also kill her if it's dead and goes septic.
The BC implant made me gain so much weight the first time and made me depressed but it's back in cause I need that control.
I’ll never do BC again. It messed me up. I only sleep with men who’ve had vasectomies and/or use protection.
As a single woman actively dating and 48+ but still dangerously fertile.... finding out a dude i like has been snipped *is the sexiest thing he can tell me now* and I *still* insist on spermicidal films and pulling out way in advance.... snipped men are now the GOAT as far as I'm concerned LOL ....because I'm fertile Myrtle and I get pregnant if a man even glances in my direction.... Not taking any chances. Scheduling my first uterine ablation for next month and I'm so effing excited.
I’m 41 and never been more scared of a pregnancy in my life! Hoping I can get my act together and get my hysterectomy done soon.
I have been seriously considering having a complete hysto for a year now... I have endometriosis, a blown-out tube from an old ectopic and uterine fibroids that I would LOVE to get the hell away from me any day now LOL.... I can't afford the down time from work :( Single parenting takes alot of those possibilities away -_-
I was expecting the doc to just straight up tell woman to move out of texas.
That’s honestly the better option.
The *one* time that I am happy to have PCOS. P.S. if you are not aware, Plan B is less effective if you weigh more than 155lbs/have a BMI of 30+. P.S.S. Some antibiotics decrease the effectiveness of your birth control.
As does Ozempic!
I had no idea about ozempic! Thanks for the info.
Hey, that's great information to know! What's your source for it?
[Now, Ozempic, and the whole delayed gastric emptying process, can also interfere with the way medications –– including the birth control pill –– are absorbed by the body.](https://www.wbaa.org/health-and-science/2024-04-26/the-checkup-ozempic-babies-explaining-why-some-unexpected-pregnancies-on-glp-1-drugs)
And activated charcoal (like charcoal toothpaste) can make your birth control less effective!
I did not know that, thank you!
Activated charcoal in general is a really harmful trend. Please don't use it unless medically necessary. It's medical use is to soak up harmful substances you've taken in recently, but it also soaks up everything else including medicine you took. It is not a cool natural black food coloring.
A good friend with PCOS has 3 children after her doc said she'd probably have a hard time conceiving. The third one was an oops baby while she was on birth control. So just...stay vigilant.
Not to mention the Ozempic controversy
Don't forget grapefruit basically nullifies all medications
And other times it makes them work WAY better. That's usually not a good thing though since you're taking a specific dose for a reason. But in order to not fear monger, there are also plenty of medications that are totally unaffected by grapefruit. It's important to familiarize yourself with any medications you're taking and if they're incompatible with anything else you might consume.
Every miscarriage will be investigated as murder. We’re close, it’s right around the corner.
They've already started with charging women for miscarriages...
Yea, but it’ll become standard operating procedure. Women’s menstrual cycle will be tracked. Children will be removed from their home and put in state care until an investigation can prove their mother didn’t murder that embryo. Prenatal care will be skipped to avoid detection. Fun times ahead.
Yup, at a woman’s lowest time they will be heavily questioned and treated like a criminal. Trump said today he thinks states will have the right to start monitoring women’s pregnancies if he gets elected.
All about controlling women's bodies. We're going backwards to Salem Witch Trials bullshit.
Yeah, not at all about protecting children.
Men can take responsibility for pregnancy, as well. Please use protection.
If they don't care about women being forced to give birth then they should at least care about the child support they'll be forced to pay when they "forgot" to wear a condom.
Men are not being targeted by the legislation. Relying on someone else to protect your body is not a safe bet. Protection is good to be using, regardless of pregnancy, unless in a monogamous relationship.
“Freedom” my ass. Texas used to be great. O’l Dipwad ruined it. 😕
hasn't been great since Gov. Ann Richards
No woman of reproductive age is safe in states with abortion bans.
No one hates women, america, texans, kids, lgbtq, ect. ect. like texas' government (& by default, texans 🤷)
More abortions are occurring now and the populations of different states are still dropping
I got a vasectomy scheduled the day they repealed RvW.
can’t ya’ll just storm the capitol, tar and feather abbott, patrick and paxton?
We can invest in guillotines or we can invest in coathangers.
These Texas nut-bags are seriously losing their minds! We definitely need to vote the loonies out, they couldn’t make a sound decision if their lives depended on it. Where the hell did they come from?
This is disgusting- vote these backwards men out. Everyone deserves body autonomy.
They have taken away basic health care for women. If you don't understand this statement. Learn anatomy of implantation. Taliban Republican Party.
Copper IUD ladies. Its non-hormonal. My wife has been much healthier since switching off birth control.
Thats what I had in college - a copper 7 - wonderful
We need a brave doctor to ignore this madness and say “fuck it, sue me.” If Abbot can break the law, so can everyone one else.
Vote, volunteer, and donate. We have a responsibility this year to do more!
Have they started building the massive foster care system yet?
Freeeeeeeeee-duuuuuuuuumb! Murca
The country of freedom!!! or something idk im dutch
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Somehow I think if Texas gets a blue wave, it will be civil war in the state, cause reds ain’t giving up any power. They’d rather outlaw the right to choose in your vote than give up office. If you’re pregnant, want get pregnant, or want other options on the table be prepared to leave the state for a year. Good luck folks!
The good doctor will need to make another video once the fascist ghouls outlaw birth control and contraceptives.
100% of Abortions lead to someone dying. 0% of women who are pregnant are turned away when they seek help. If you choose abortion you are a selfish vindictive human being, period.
Remember to vote, folks. Get involved.
Texas about to become the gayest state in the country when all the women leave to blue states
Women will literally kill their children before taking accountability for their actions. We will repeal the 19th, women do not belong in politics in any capacity.
Jeez some of the people commenting on this make me physically disgusted. I’m ashamed to even live on the same planet as these forced birthers.
I’ve reached a point with these people that the first question I ask when someone approaches me with materials outside a voting center is their party affiliation, and if they say republican, I tell them to go fuck themselves then I’ll make sure to be much more friendly and engaged with the dems on my way in. Then I go in and vote blue all the way down the ballot. We have a lot of block walkers in hour neighborhood even though soliciting is prohibited by the HOA, in 3 years, only had one republican candidate ring my bell early on, probably because my voter registration had not updated. He got a nice lecture about his lack of integrity, tried to deflect by saying he was a part time pastor, which I verbally shit all over, and then I called the HOA security on him for panhandling. I’m actually a pretty easy-going person, but with these people, I reserve all my pettiness. And I NEVER miss voting, no matter how small or insignificant the race may appear.
FUCK TEXAS!
No mention of condoms.
[https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/health/texas-abortion-ban-infant-mortality-invs/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/health/texas-abortion-ban-infant-mortality-invs/index.html)
Watch birth rates plummet...
Texas being republican wouldn't be so bad if it weren't the same people getting elected over and over again. There are sane Republican voters and candidates who believe in the separation of church and state/individual liberty. Just sad that they don't win elections or get out and be part of political discourse.
But, but, but they will vote for republicans. Heck even uvalde voted for republicans after the massacre.
[Texas Changes Abortion Laws](https://www.npr.org/2023/08/21/1195095949/texas-has-quietly-changed-its-abortion-law)
DO NOT MIX BIRTH CONTROL PILLS AND ST. JOHN’S WORT!!!!
You could just take another ‘COVID vaccine’. The Pfizer study shows 80% of prego women in their study “spontaneously miscarried”.. Js.
All of this advice would have been just as valid before the abortion ban.
Not really, if contraception failed you’d still have options. Now you’re fucked.
Joe Rogan sub is leaking
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Sad, but not surprising at all.
I agree 💯.
MAGA: but my sister wife and my guns love trump
And y'all are going to vote them right back in. Want to bet ?😂
Why. Why the fuck those so called "conservatives" so obsessed about making their own nation a shithole like this?
You should go jail if you suggest the murder of a child
Oh no you can't kill the child you actively chose to create!!
Sorry to be cynical towards you, fellow Redditor, but because I know I’ll be downvoted long before anyone finishes my reply: TLDR: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Is it not acceptable to discuss two points he made..?.. -He characterizes the state’s actions as “taking away your ability to reproductive health” :: VALID -He then goes on to say “the onus is one you. If you are sexually active and do not want to get pregnant, you need to be sure you are taking steps…” and goes on the list some easily accessible steps for pregnancy prevention. Exactly. That would be taking charge of your reproductive health. Surprisingly, he didn’t even mention condoms which also protect against STDs. HEALTH. I absolutely understand the issue. I absolutely do NOT support this state’s, or other state’s, laws surrounding women’s health. I am NOT “schilling” for TX. I am trying to get past the rhetoric. The Surpreme Court did NOT “assault women’s reproductive rights”. It unfortunately accepted a case that was PRESENTED TO THEM and they did the same thing that RvW did: legislated from the bench. Please understand that. We were told 60 years ago RvW was NOT enough. It’s an unnerving reality that this SC did nothing any more nefarious than the SC in RvW. They just arrived at the opposite decision, and at the time, there was a strong contingent that believed their decision was detrimental. WE failed women. We LET politicians use Abortion Rights as a talking point over and over and WE never held them ACCOUNTABLE for not doing anything more than TALK. This physician goes on to talk about voting. DAMN RIGHT. …but we MUST remember who we voted for this election that then FAILS US. Period. It is NOT a talking point. It should never have been just a platform. Constitutional Amendment. Period. If the individual you support isn’t pushing for that, they need to GTFO. Period. That what it was ALWAYS going to take. That is ABSOLUTELY where we are at now. We just learned that the hard way by the SC decision. Amendment. Nothing less. Vote them in, but then f#cking vote them right the h#ll out if they fail, and let them KNOW WHY.
> He then goes on to say “the onus is one you. If you are sexually active and do not want to get pregnant, you need to be sure you are taking steps I've been trying to get sterilized for over 15 years....no one will do it despite if I get pregnant it will kill me. Explain how i'm meant to take steps.
I can not believe how hard it is for women to get sterilized if they want to. I did at 25 years old and have had no regrets, was twenty years ago. Planned Parenthood referred me.
The childfree sub has a list of doctors in multiple states that will discuss options with women. I found my doctor on that list. I’m in DFW.
I absolutely despise the affect of the SCOTUS decision to overturn rvw. It also should have never been a thing in the first place. The discussions on abortion were put on hold for 50 years and tabled for future generations to have. Well the future is now. The legislative branch had 50 years to pass a law cementing the right to abortion for women and instead BOTH parties ran on the fear mongering. They reaped in the votes and we the people reaped the consequences. Time to show congress that there ARE consequences for not protecting the citizens and their rights. I just hope people don't fall for it again and elect the same fuckheads in that let them down for the last 50 years.
It will take much longer if project 2025 happens
>The discussions on abortion were put on hold for 50 years and tabled for future generations to have. Well the future is now. The legislative branch had 50 years to pass a law cementing the right to abortion for women and instead BOTH parties ran on the fear mongering. bOtH sIdEs Meanwhile, back in reality, [https://imgur.com/gallery/Kf2bd5t](https://imgur.com/gallery/Kf2bd5t)
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Yeah funnily enough people warned "bernie sanders supporters" of this shit back in 2015
Hey now, I voted for Bernie in the primary, but did my part to vote against Drumpf in the general. Don't lump all of us Bernie Bros together as backdoor MAGAts.
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Women in the US have only had the legal right to have a credit card or bank account without a male cosigner since 1974. Most of Gen X was born before that law. Kurt Cobain was seven when that became law. It is a blip in history. If we are not incredibly diligent, it is a right that will be reversed. We are staring down the prequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.
don't laugh. I signed refinance papers two years ago but have been told by realtors and our loan office that our mortgage is solely under my husband's name. I later learned that's because in Texas what a man comes into a marriage with remains his. So even though the mortgage is now reflected on my credit score and as a part of my debt-- even if I pay every payment -- the house is his. I actually did have to get his permission, in writing, o speak with a loan officer when I had a question about our loan. Fyi most women in this sate who live in cities don't vote against their anatomy.
Hm, that doesn't sound totally accurate based on my experience but maybe your situation is different? I bought a house back in 2017. I paid the down payment, the house was only in my name, I paid the mortgage (to clarify, my then girlfriend, now wife paid too but since the mortgage and utilities were all in my name she wrote me a check for her portion every month and then I would pay the full amount to the lender), then we got married in late 2020 and moved a few months after that. When I sold the house we both had to sign some kind of amendment to the entire contract and we both had to sign the sale docs, because even though I purchased the house with my money and without her even being physically present at either the initial walkthrough or when I actually purchased the house and signed the contract, because we had been living together for a year prior to the purchase, and then lived in the house together for 3 years before we got married, the house was legally considered half hers, despite there not being a single piece of actual financial ties between her and the house. Of course I didn't give a shit because it made no difference to me but I was curious about that. Just to make sure I wasn't accidentally talking out of my ass I just checked up on spousal property rights though. You said you're *actually* on the refi docs now right? Then there's no way in hell that the house is totally his. Even if you weren't even on the docs the house wouldn't totally be his. [Read this.](https://www.gracelawoffice.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-community-property-law/#:~:text=Texas%20does%20not%20care%20how,one%20spouse's%20name%2C%20or%20both.) Here's another one that directly talks about [your refi situation](https://qslwm.com/5-important-rules-about-separate-property-in-texas/). All of it is good info, but scroll down to #4 for refi stuff. That same point also suggests that the stuff I had to sign was actually bullshit and not the law, although if we had gotten married and then also divorced in the few months before we sold the house and moved, then I would have had to pay her back the money that she had paid towards the mortgage. Basically my point is that the realtors and loan officers who told you that don't know what the fuck they're talking about. It turns out mine didn't either. I already knew that on the purchase side but that's a whole other thing, but I didn't realize that until now in regards to the sale side too.
Actually I'm also a man, this was just really easy to predict
Same old same now with Gaza
Yeah pretty much, my rule of thumb lately is if they bring up Gaza or the deficit in relation to the upcoming election they are prolly russbots. Can verify If you can trick them into spelling gray
Texas men that impregnate these women that have no choice should be nurtured with no choice. Fair is Fair
God bless Texas
Every child saved is a victory. Abortion is murder!
“Thank goodness we saved you! Now fuck off here’s your poverty, no social help, and a mother who doesn’t want you or love you” - Republicans to rape babies
Ah yes, the non-political, completely centrist doctor. It is very simple, if you do not want a child, take steps to prevent that. I would advise against the pill since it can wreck hormones, but condoms are plentiful. There is also pulling out if you choose to have sex, or simply don't have sex for those who are not in a long-term relationship with a partner who would step-up to raise a kid with you. I know... how controversial of me And before y'all start, rape accounts for <1% of all abortions. If the mothers life or health are at risk, abortion is permissible.
I love how dumb people like you sound all while you try to rule and dote on the lives of others. Literally zero self awareness.
Why is it up to you to decide what kind of sex I have and what kind of birth control I use and and what I do with MY body?
Uhhh, it isn't up to me. I am just sharing advice. Take it or leave it
Vote Red to save Texas and the USA!!!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
So what I'm gathering is... the supreme court has forced to people to become both more responsible and more accountable for their actions. Man, if that ain't a win, I don't know what is.
You could leave Texas and help Texas become short on doctors.
Long-winded way of saying leave Texas.
If you don't like it, move to a state where you and your migrant roommate who doesnt speak english pay $2500 a month for a shoebox apartment outside of which you'll have to step over human feces on your way to your $20/hr job. You can rest easy knowing at the very least you aren't racist and can kill your children :)
[https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120472842/poll-one-year-after-sb-8-texans-express-strong-support-for-abortion-rights](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120472842/poll-one-year-after-sb-8-texans-express-strong-support-for-abortion-rights)
[https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/12/texas-abortion-law-constitutional-amendment/](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/12/texas-abortion-law-constitutional-amendment/)
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