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Can you elaborate? I'm not from the U.S but I'm curious.

by m_a_g 5y ago

threatofrain 5y ago
Texas is extremely hostile to abortion or legislation to fund matters related to reproductive health.
- betwixthewires 5y ago
  To be fair, in Texas you can get access to all forms of birth control and family planning except abortions, and even then they're available very early in a pregnancy, in most cases you can get access to these services for free all over the state. Texas and a lot of more conservative states are hostile to abortions, but hostility to other forms of birth control and family planning are really a myth at this point that was true in a previous era but no longer true at all.
- VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
  It's somewhat complicated by the issues around the "reproductive health" organizations focusing heavily on minority areas and aggressively promoting abortion and sterilization as a means of controlling poverty growth. There are people on both sides of the issue that don't really like that strategy despite it being very prevalent in traditionally progressive areas/states.
VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
they want to have abortions and it's hard to get them in texas
fileoffset 5y ago
Texas just banned abortions... and further relaxed gun laws
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tomatofarmer 5y ago
The poster needs the ability to terminate any unplanned pregnancies that may occur
- spamizbad 5y ago
  The way the Texas law is written it impacts anyone who helps facilitate terminating a pregnancy. Simply walking your friend into an abortion clinic past 6 weeks (which is 6 weeks since the last period) makes you liable.
- DavidVoid 5y ago
  Banning abortions doesn't just affect unplanned pregnancies. A few weeks after Texas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, Dr. Andrea Palmer delivered terrible news to a Fort Worth patient who was midway through her pregnancy. The fetus had a rare neural tube defect. The brain would not develop, and the infant would die at birth or shortly afterward. Carrying the pregnancy to term would be emotionally grueling and would also raise the mother’s risk of blood clots and severe postpartum bleeding, the doctor warned. But the patient was past six weeks’ gestation, and under the new law, an abortion was not an option in Texas because the woman was not immediately facing a life-threatening medical crisis or risk of permanent disability. “So we look at them like a ticking time bomb and wait for the complications to develop,” Dr. Palmer said of her patients. In this case, the woman had the means to travel, and she obtained an abortion in another state, an option unavailable to many low-income and working class women. From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law-risky-pregnancy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law...

Can you elaborate? I'm not from the U.S but I'm curious.

by m_a_g 5y ago

Can you elaborate? I'm not from the U.S but I'm curious.

threatofrain 5y ago

Texas is extremely hostile to abortion or legislation to fund matters related to reproductive health.

betwixthewires 5y ago
To be fair, in Texas you can get access to all forms of birth control and family planning except abortions, and even then they're available very early in a pregnancy, in most cases you can get access to these services for free all over the state. Texas and a lot of more conservative states are hostile to abortions, but hostility to other forms of birth control and family planning are really a myth at this point that was true in a previous era but no longer true at all.
VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
It's somewhat complicated by the issues around the "reproductive health" organizations focusing heavily on minority areas and aggressively promoting abortion and sterilization as a means of controlling poverty growth. There are people on both sides of the issue that don't really like that strategy despite it being very prevalent in traditionally progressive areas/states.

VWWHFSfQ 5y ago

they want to have abortions and it's hard to get them in texas

fileoffset 5y ago

Texas just banned abortions... and further relaxed gun laws

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tomatofarmer 5y ago

The poster needs the ability to terminate any unplanned pregnancies that may occur

spamizbad 5y ago
The way the Texas law is written it impacts anyone who helps facilitate terminating a pregnancy. Simply walking your friend into an abortion clinic past 6 weeks (which is 6 weeks since the last period) makes you liable.
DavidVoid 5y ago
Banning abortions doesn't just affect unplanned pregnancies. A few weeks after Texas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, Dr. Andrea Palmer delivered terrible news to a Fort Worth patient who was midway through her pregnancy. The fetus had a rare neural tube defect. The brain would not develop, and the infant would die at birth or shortly afterward. Carrying the pregnancy to term would be emotionally grueling and would also raise the mother’s risk of blood clots and severe postpartum bleeding, the doctor warned. But the patient was past six weeks’ gestation, and under the new law, an abortion was not an option in Texas because the woman was not immediately facing a life-threatening medical crisis or risk of permanent disability. “So we look at them like a ticking time bomb and wait for the complications to develop,” Dr. Palmer said of her patients. In this case, the woman had the means to travel, and she obtained an abortion in another state, an option unavailable to many low-income and working class women. From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law-risky-pregnancy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law...