Meanwhile in Texas

 

Texas radio host @TheRyanHamilton is speaking out after his state’s extreme abortion ban left his wife in serious danger and distress during a miscarriage. Thank you, Ryan for your bravery in sharing your story and speaking up against this cruel ban on essential health care. pic.twitter.com/qqyqYhaBqh

— Center for Reproductive Rights (@ReproRights) June 18, 2024

So, a few weeks ago, the Texas Supreme Court denied a challenge to the oppressive anti-abortion law on the grounds that doctors who tell their patients they won't perform abortions because of the law are just being silly. Seriously. Which I take to mean that goddamn it, maybe the doctors who can perform this care should test the theory and see how bullshit it is. All they have to lose is their...livelihood and well-being. (See George Tiller, etc.) What does this mean for pregnant people in this state?

Kate Cox, who had to flee Texas to receive vital reproductive care: I'm actually pregnant. It's a very exciting time. But it's a hard feeling. There's so much happiness, but I'm scared at the same time. I live in a state with an extreme abortion ban. If I have an emergency with… pic.twitter.com/r4V1C3abhq

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 21, 2024

Concern that they will not receive life-saving care if needed, or that they will face the prospect of their life saved, but reproductively-impaired or maimed by sepsi sor other effects of a pregnancy gone wrong. This is not a pro-life stance at all--merely pro-abusing women for capricious reasons.

How capricious? THIS capricious:

This Texas ‘bounty hunter’ law helps men use the legal system to go after their exes for getting an abortion in other states pic.twitter.com/uDiqD85Rs6

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) June 22, 2024

Which is why when faces of meth Nancy Mace wants to tell us women are not going to be penalized for travelling for abortion care--as if this is the disgusting thing the rightwingers are calling "abortion tourism":

Mace: Abortion is still legal in this country. It may or may not be legal in your state… but it's still legal. No one is preventing you from traveling somewhere else, pic.twitter.com/QLSdTFElI6

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 21, 2024

She can go suck a tailpipe or whatever the fuck it is she's been wrapping her mouth around lately to make it look like that. Ye gads. The whole fuck with her sudden ropy-looking decline. 

Of course women will be penalized for trying to exercise some kind of autonomy over their own bodies--that is the point of this kind of legislation everywhere that it happens, and yes, women are right to decide for themselves to vote against the kind of fuckfaces who want them to die or be permanently physically afflicted by a pregnancy gone wrong, or to carry the child of their rapist and have a connection to trauma their whole life-long. That other women who should know better would lie about this thing makes it even more horrifying. 

 What did other women do to you that you would do them like that? Or is this the kind of horrific thing one supports for ambition--to go along to get along? 

 As for me, I support pregnant people and their needs to unpregnant themselves for their life and health. Why the fuck would I not if I care about life?