Texas’s effective anti-abortion law

Given the limitations of our rigged political system, I think the primary way we have to promote solidarity and coalition building is through our everyday personal lives that include our relationships with friends, family members, coworkers, community groups, social groups, etc.... From our different locations in society we have important yet different roles to play.

WOW. How can any medical professional allow this?

A dear friend of mine and pro-abortion rights advocate is probably rolling and rolling and rolling in her relatively fresh grave.

This battle to ensure our hard fought rights without having to look over our shoulders with every minute change in government or out-of-country influence has been going on for more than 30 years. I'm sure Judy Rebick can attest to that.

Electing Republicans has consequences.

Sen. Joe Manchin Joins GOP Senators Blocking Bill Guaranteeing Abortion Access

A Democrat-led bill in Congress that would have codified abortion rights into federal law has been blocked in the Senate. Conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin joined Senate Republicans who used the threat of a filibuster to block the Women’s Health Protection Act. The legislation was approved by House Democrats last year in response to a wave of state laws almost completely banning abortions. This is Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray. 

Sen. Patty Murray: “Republicans have made it abundantly clear they want a world in which they, as politicians, get to decide what women can do with their bodies, their lives and their futures. That is not what the vast majority of Americans want. The vast majority of Americans want a country where the very personal, individual decision about pregnancy is — wait for it — up to the individual.”

..the abortion issue goes back a very long long way. this is not primarily a republican or conservative issue. meaning all political parties have elements. and outside political parties. which includes religious establishments and or the general public.

..at the core of the abortion issue are men trying to have control over women.

..this is a feminist thread and that should be respected. 

..your trying to make a distiction where there is none. 

State-level Republicans are going all in on extreme anti-trans, anti-abortion laws; March 22, 2022

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Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country are taking up anti-trans and anti-abortion bills at a shocking rate, as lawmakers seize on an enforcement mechanism first tested by Texas’s SB 8.

Multiple states — including Florida, Idaho, and Texas — have enacted, or hope to enact, new and draconian restrictions, including banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy (functionally equivalent to an outright ban on abortion), or banning gender-affirming health care for transgender children.

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epaulo13, I think you're the one not helping defend womens’ right to choose in the here and now by ignoring that these crazy laws in the U.S. are only happening in Republican run states. You're the one wanting to wag their finger at certain groups and ignore the actions of other groups because it doesn’t fit your political agenda to. Luckily in the U.S. the people who support the right to choose understand the dynamics of what is going on in their country. They understand why states like Texas and Florida are inactimg these kinds of laws while states like California and New York aren't. They know which groups of people support Roe versus Wade and which groups want to go back to pre-1970’s America.

If I lived in Texas I would be marching in the streets against this completely destructive law. I would also be supporting pro-choice groups who are helping women procure abortions in Texas or in nearby states not run by Republicans.

I think it is important to remember that elected politicians shouldn't force courts to do things that are against the law but rather elected politicians should enact good legislation that the courts enforce.

I agree that more marches and protests throughout the U.S. would be great. Maybe a central march in Washington D.C. and marches and protests in every capital city and majour metropolitan city? Having said that I think the Republicans won't back down on these terrible abortion laws as they know these kinds of laws appal to their base. I think these kinds of terrible laws will be a problem as long as Republicans have majorities in state legislatures and on U.S. courts.

..i do agree the republicans won't stop because i don't see the resistance happening to the scale that it needs to. i also don't see much of a future without that resistance.  

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..i do agree the republicans won't stop because i don't see the resistance happening to the scale that it needs to. i also don't see much of a future without that resistance.  

Things are likely going to get a lot worse in the U.S. with Amy Coney Barret on the Supreme Court now replacing Ruth Bader Ginsberg. In all likelihood Roe versus Wade is either going to be severely watered down or eliminated before years end. If that happens we might see a lot more resistance all over the U.S.

"please stop laying all the blame on the republicans jkr. it is not a well thought out view of the situation. it's to narrow and simplistic a view."

I'm not aware of any other party passing laws in the U.S. restricting the right to an abortion as well as LQBTQ rights.  If you are aware of other parties doing this, perhaps you can point them out.

Ex-GOP Gov Candidate Calls For ‘Firing Squad’ For Trans Rights Supporters, Political Foes

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/22283/ex-gop-gov-candidate-calls-fo...

U.S. Republican Sen. Mike Braun: SCOTUS should leave abortion, interracial marriage to states; Indiana Public Radio; March 22, 2022

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U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) said the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage nationwide and should have left it to individual states.
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Now people are opposing interracial marriage!

Colorado just enacted a law that enshrines the right to have an abortion in the state, the latest left-leaning state that's taken action to protect reproductive rights as the practice faces renewed efforts by conservatives to restrict its access.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091041608/colorado-abortion-law

Anti-Abortionists Played the Long Game, And They Are Winning

Republican state legislatures are creating abortion refugees across the United States. After Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a draconian bill, SB 8, into law last year, empowering bounty hunters to sue abortion providers, those seeking care fled to the neighboring states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

But Republican (GOP) leaders were ready for them. Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt on April 12 signed the nation’s strictest abortion ban into law, ending all abortions in his state except in cases of danger to the pregnant person’s life. Now, reports are emerging of Oklahomans turning to the neighboring state of Kansas for abortions.

Not to be outdone by his GOP colleagues, presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, also signed a 15-week abortion ban into law similar to the one passed by states like Kentucky.

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Financial Hindrance

Already, low-income people living in states with abortion bans are facing prohibitively expensive travel to access care. The costs could jump even higher as more states enact bans and people have to travel farther, weighing the pressures of finances, juggling job schedules, family obligations, and the ticking clock of gestation. “It’s not going to be middle and upper-class white women who are going to have problems accessing abortion,” said Gandy.

And, it’s only a matter of time before the anti-abortionists’ wildest dream of overturning the Roe v. Wade precedent at the Supreme Court will come true. According to one analysis, this would immediately result in abortion becoming illegal in at least 13 states. Only 17 states and Washington, D.C., have ensured that abortion will be legal and accessible if Roe falls – and that figure is dependent on Democrats retaining control of those state legislatures.

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A Matter of Health

The horror that the US is sliding toward could have been avoided had Democrats codified reproductive rights into law during any of the times they have been in control of both houses of Congress and the presidency in the decades since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. Their inaction, even in the face of concerted anti-abortion activism and resulting successes, is unconscionable.

A legislative effort that was too little, too late, came this past March in the form of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would have legalized abortion. But it failed to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, with Vox describing the bill as “primarily for messaging,” and asserted that its failure to pass “makes the case for a larger Democratic majority.”

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, as well as the two sole pro-abortion Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, also voted against the bill, making clear their support for abortion rights is mere lip service.

Asleep at the wheel, lawmakers have left Americans at the mercy of a vocal minority intent on criminalizing abortion while caring little about financial support for parents....

 ..i totally disagree with you on this josh. the will just wasn't there. ever. 

..it is playing politics. like saying your against war, racism and poverty. both parties are against none of these.  

You're right.  It's the Democrats who are passing all this anti-choice legislation.  It doesn't matter who is in power.

Yes, everything is everything.  It's all relative.  The innocent are as culpable as the guilty.

Now you're just jumping all around the place.  And you never addressed my point about how the Republicans could just repeal whatever the Democrats passed.

..my point has been the same all along. there is a systemic violence against women across the board. war and poverty being examples. you can't separate that from taking away a woman's right to choose. men trying to control women at the heart of the abortion issue.

..lots of that from both parties. the constitution was written excluding women. the government is dominated by men. the courts are dominated by men. the economic system is dominated by men.

..you want to delve in lesser evil politics which is unrelated to what i am arguing.

..not if you consider the inaction. which is why i posted #87.

..but i did respond. you just don't like/understand the answer. or you wouldn't keep asking.