These women now have to struggle for what was once readily available, even if they still can, theoretically, access family planning in another state. A lot of them are going to try an unsafe method, or won’t be able to make the trip happen, or fall through the cracks another way.
This dangerous shit is what got Roe v. Wade passed to begin with. I was only a kid but damn those pics were gory. There is one quite famous one of a lady who had died while passed out from loss of blood, kneeling on the floor with bloody towels around her from a botched abortion. Even in black and white it was . . . ugh.
Laws don’t end abortions and never have. They only ensure more suffering, death, and societal judgement for anyone in a position unlucky enough to have to think about one in the first place.
(And as long as I’m talking about the 70s, I should add that this whole bad faith “abortion as birth control” argument comes from the exact same place as Ronald Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” trope. These people may exist, but they are NOT the norm, not by a long shot. In both cases the real culprits were, and are, institutions corporate and religious.)
You mean it’s almost like RICH people who need abortions are going to get them. Crucial distinction. It takes resources to get yourself to another state and a lot of people can’t even afford to take time off work let alone pay for gas/bus ticket/plane ticket/hotel etc.
In the end it’s the arrogance that’s going to get them.
Theyve got too much faith in gerrymandering, but Texas just flipped to a majority non-white Hispanic. And I doubt that next generation is going to vote R
The fucked up thing is that the MAJORITY of Texans aren’t rich yet they keep voting for the party that let’s their kids get slaughtered in schools and their mothers die on the birthing bed.
It’s almost like who need abortions are going to get them regardless of how legal they are.
Amazing.
“The cruelty is the point” etc
These women now have to struggle for what was once readily available, even if they still can, theoretically, access family planning in another state. A lot of them are going to try an unsafe method, or won’t be able to make the trip happen, or fall through the cracks another way.
This dangerous shit is what got Roe v. Wade passed to begin with. I was only a kid but damn those pics were gory. There is one quite famous one of a lady who had died while passed out from loss of blood, kneeling on the floor with bloody towels around her from a botched abortion. Even in black and white it was . . . ugh.
Laws don’t end abortions and never have. They only ensure more suffering, death, and societal judgement for anyone in a position unlucky enough to have to think about one in the first place.
(And as long as I’m talking about the 70s, I should add that this whole bad faith “abortion as birth control” argument comes from the exact same place as Ronald Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” trope. These people may exist, but they are NOT the norm, not by a long shot. In both cases the real culprits were, and are, institutions corporate and religious.)
You mean it’s almost like RICH people who need abortions are going to get them. Crucial distinction. It takes resources to get yourself to another state and a lot of people can’t even afford to take time off work let alone pay for gas/bus ticket/plane ticket/hotel etc.
Rich people will get safe abortions, people without money will find other ways to have abortions that risk their own life.
In the end it’s the arrogance that’s going to get them.
Theyve got too much faith in gerrymandering, but Texas just flipped to a majority non-white Hispanic. And I doubt that next generation is going to vote R
You’d maybe be surprised at how conservative the Hispanic population can be. Just look at Florida, for example.
Also, don’t understand the right’s ability to convince people to vote against their best interests.
The fucked up thing is that the MAJORITY of Texans aren’t rich yet they keep voting for the party that let’s their kids get slaughtered in schools and their mothers die on the birthing bed.
A majority of Texans don’t even vote! They see all this and go “yeah but both parties are the same”