@Joe
I think this is going to turn more people against Christianity and the far right TBH. Their need to infect their religious beliefs on everyone is appalling. Not everyone has a financially stable life and can afford to raise children properly. The worst of sinners are now “saved” extremists who bomb and kill in the name of Jesus Christ. They are as bad as the mormon fundamentalists.
A woman should have the right to decide personally and privately what she needs to do if she becomes pregnant, regardless of the circumstances. The 14th Amendment of our Constitution supports this.
Furthermore, I have never had an abortion and I have never been with the type of man who would suggest I get an abortion.
I’m pro QUALITY of life for the woman and for society.
I've never had an unwanted pregnancy nor abortion. In a civil society, access to reproductive health services, including affordable contraception, should be readily available. If you look at abortion data in this country, unwanted pregnancies peaked in the 1950's. Abortion has been decreasing over the decades. The access to affordable birth control, including free for the poor, has resulted in the decrease in abortion.
However, the Christian Taliban wants women to stop having sex. It is about controlling women, end of story.
The Texas Republican Party is a lot of things; anti-democracy, anti-voting, anti-history, anti-facts, deeply opposed to anti-racism. What they are not is pro-life. They are loudly and proudly the pro-death party.
You can’t call yourself the pro-life, pro-family party if your policy goals are to put bounties on pregnant women and to force teenage girls to give birth after getting pregnant as a result of incest and rape.
~ Joy Reid ~
I think to many men, gay or straight, women are just vessels/incubators when it comes to "life'. Conservatives want to control the vagina because of the power it holds over them.
Many gay men just treat women like vessels. I posted a thread about Buttigieg announcing he and his husband have twins now. They are sitting on the hospital bed as if they had just given birth. The birth mom was not only excluded from the picture, she was kicked off her own hospital bed. Wtf?! Can you two non-ovarian chuckleheads go sit in chairs to take the picture?
I have to say, at least Anderson Cooper was effusive in his praise for the birth mom when he had his kid.
Yes, as an Outsider to this argument, I have to agree with your assessment.
Even if a group is pro-life, there should still be a discussion and a consensus bringing pro choice and anti pro life groups together.
This does not appear to be the case in Texas.
It is very one-sided. My way or the highway.
The Texas governor is not offering any help to girls or women in need.
No exanpanded social services, etc.
These are troubled girls/youths/women who need help, not punishment.
Actually, Abbott's policies are highly reminiscent of George W Bush's ill fated wars in the Middle East.
Another Texan who slam dunked social or political policy down everyone's throats.
And look where it got America 20 years later.... division, a broken society.
In short, a mess.
This latest directive from a Texas politician will not end well either since it was not done in a spirit of fairness or democracy.
Social policy in a supposedly democratic country IS NOT a Zero sum game.
You can't run one like that.
