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> "Once you remove politics from the picture" ...is doing a lot of lifting here. Not having my loved ones' freedom and reproductive rights taken away was a hu
by ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
> "Once you remove politics from the picture"
...is doing a lot of lifting here.
Not having my loved ones' freedom and reproductive rights taken away was a huge plus for this native Texan fleeing Texas, for example.
A coworker still there talks about how the school board is being taken over by right-wing, book-banning, religious fundamentalists. He now homeschools his kids and has asked me about moving to my new home state.
In general, it's nice not being stomped on whenever the governor wants to score some cheap political points. It's weird when your government is acting like that friend that always starts fights (sometimes with you) when drunk and always seems to be drunk.
Granted, with the way things are going there, I'm also a climate refugee.
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- realPubkey 3y agoWhich books are they banning?
- jameshart 3y agoAre there books it’s okay to ban?
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoWhy do you ask?
- carld 3y agoTexas government powers practically unlimited; it’s Big Government. The government bans numerous books, see https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/banned-books-in-texas-schools https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/banned-books-i...
- Newlaptop 3y agoSerious question- my understanding is that when Americans say "reproductive rights" that's a euphemism for easy access to elective abortions for unwanted pregnancies. Compared to moving to a new state, wouldn't it be far easier to just use any of the available birth control methods? Take the pill, get the injection, get an IUD, use a Nuvaring, use condoms, etc. The idea of moving to another state so that you can... not use birth control and instead just get abortions every time you get pregnant... seems unlikely to me?
- nostrademons 3y agoMuch of Texas is a contraceptive desert. The state has a number of other policies (eg. parental consent required for minors to access birth control, poor funding for reproductive health clinics, poor general health care in many places) that make even access to ordinary birth control difficult: https://powertodecide.org/what-we-do/contraceptive-deserts https://powertodecide.org/what-we-do/contraceptive-deserts If you are affluent, you won't have a problem, but if you are affluent you also won't have a problem traveling to California for an abortion either. Low-income women have a lot of economic and geographic barriers to finding effective contraception.
- SauciestGNU 3y agoAnd don't forget that conservatives are targeting Griswold v Connecticut (the Supreme Court case legalizing contraceptives), and conservative justices on the Supreme Court have claimed it was wrongfully decided. It's very likely that the Court will allow states to criminalize contraceptives, if not outright ban them throughout the entire United States.
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- redserk 3y agoI’m assuming this question is genuinely in good faith but is coming from someone simply not informed about this matter: Birth control is not 100% effective and many people do not use birth control in a manner that ensures the highest effectiveness. Some people utilize multiple birth control mechanisms but even this leads to accidental pregnancies. If a combined effectiveness of birth control is 98%, that is still 2% of couples each year regularly having intercourse that encounter a pregnancy. I believe this is about the combined effective percentage of those using the pill combined with condoms. Some may say to use an IUD, however some woman cannot use a IUD and there may be complications with those who can. Even vasectomies have a failure rate.
- klyrs 3y agoAccording to the comments I read in right wing spaces, Austin is a city in California; they don't belong in Texas.