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babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 10:48 AM Sep 2021

The Rude Pundit: Have You Read That Destructive Texas Anti-Choice Law? It's Hot, Harmful Garbage


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9/03/2021
Have You Read That Destructive Texas Anti-Choice Law? It's Hot, Harmful Garbage


First and foremost, this is a tragedy for women in Texas. The incredibly cruel, physically and mentally harmful, and intentionally divisive anti-abortion law that the Supreme Court allowed to go into effect on Wednesday night will end up with women being maimed or killed or forced to be vessels for fetuses that they do not want to carry, including the products of rape and incest (which, let's be clear, is almost always rape no matter what other word you wanna use), including the fetuses of abusive men. They will be forced to carry those fetuses when they know that they cannot afford the baby (and one reason they cannot afford the baby is because those who are forcing them to carry the fetus provide almost nothing to support the baby). It is a tragedy because it tells a woman that whatever existence she thought she might have, it must become secondary to "mother" once she gets pregnant and doesn't abort the fetus prior to six weeks of gestation, before many women even know they're pregnant. The mostly men who passed this law are savages who cannot wait to bathe in the blood of botched abortions. That will sanctify their brutal, backwards actions and satisfy their desire to kill those who oppose their Christian extremism.

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Not dickish enough? Not only can the random, greedy fucknut win at least $10,000 from you for showing that you intended to drive your friend to get an abortion, but you have to pay fucknut's legal fees.

Not dickish enough? If greedy fucknut sues you and loses, you are still stuck with your legal fees. That's right. There is no disincentive for just bringing a whole bunch of lawsuits and seeing what the fuck sticks. How many skeevy lawyers are gonna make bank on this?

The goddamn law just goes on and on, foreclosing nearly any avenue that might show even a bit of compassion for women.
The bounty hunters have up to four years from the date when anyone did anything to help a woman get an abortion after six weeks. And you can't bring up that Roe v. Wade is allegedly still the law of the land as a defense.

It's a fucking mess. It purposely turns citizens against each other. It pays people for playing Abortion Batman. It victimizes the women of Texas who were already being victimized by some of the most blindingly dickish anti-choice laws in the country. I mean, why would you talk to your friends about your choices after you find out you're pregnant? You'd be completely justified in thinking that you might get them in trouble or they might turn against you. Shit, a rapist can sue anyone who would try to help his victim get an abortion if he impregnated her as a result of the, you know, rape. Goddamn, fuck you, Greg Abbott and the Texas legislature. Just fuck you.

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The Rude Pundit: Have You Read That Destructive Texas Anti-Choice Law? It's Hot, Harmful Garbage (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2021 OP
Bravo. CrispyQ Sep 2021 #1
Sounds like Texas is channeling Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR and Mao's China. Tommymac Sep 2021 #2
And Ceaușescu's Romania. ShazzieB Sep 2021 #4
Thanks - sad information but needed. Tommymac Sep 2021 #5
How is this different than LittleGirl Sep 2021 #3

CrispyQ

(36,225 posts)
1. Bravo.
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 11:01 AM
Sep 2021

I wish I could express my rage at this heinous law. Instead, it just boils inside.

I think young women are paying attention & pissed off! Look out GOP. They are going to agitate & motivate their family & friends to the voting booths in 22-24, & we are going to vote your evil, cruel asses out of office.

The most important decision a woman can make isn't yours.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
2. Sounds like Texas is channeling Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR and Mao's China.
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 01:14 PM
Sep 2021

Tattle Tail on your neighbors in the name of Jesus.

Save their souls even if they don't want to be saved and it costs them their lives.

I'm sure he is sitting at the right hand of the father chuckling. Not.

Fucking Christian Taliban is what they are.


ShazzieB

(15,952 posts)
4. And Ceaușescu's Romania.
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 04:14 PM
Sep 2021

His Decree 770 outlawed both contraception and abortion for women under 40 with fewer than 4 children.

Childbearing aged women were monitored monthly by a gynecologist, and any detected pregnancies were closely followed until birth. All for the purpose of increasing Romania's population. The results were predictably disastrous and led to Romania being the only communist country whose ruler was violently overthrown and killed at the end of the Cold War. (Ceaușescu was executed by a firing squad.)

The policies of the Ceauşescu regime were one of Margaret Atwood's inspirations for The Handmaid's Tale:
https://historycollection.com/17-moments-in-history-that-inspired-the-handmaids-tale/2/

Google Decree 770 sometime if you're in the mood to be horrified.

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