HEY TEXAS: Here's the real reason behind your anti-choice rhetoric.

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My thanks to @Thedailyshow.

[Lovie777]

1. K & R . . .

[Rorey]

2. Exactly

I've been saying this for decades. Well, many others have been saying it too.

[2naSalit]

3. ...

F'in' A right, Ralph.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Yeah, my daughter will always have a choice

Because I can just fly her out of the crumbling empire to a free country. Where woman can have freedom.

But the poor and ignorant don't have a choice, especially if they live in Texas.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. well said. Thanks

[jaxexpat]

58. That may be true for now but people are already watching people like you......

who think they can escape the coming justice. As for your daughter, just make sure that you keep a check on the length of those skirts and she'll probably get along just fine.

(On re-read, I scared myself. I was being sarcastic but it came out unintentionally sinister. Or is it self explanatory how some concepts require inherently cruel explanation?)

[Farmer-Rick]

59. Yeah, I get it.

This is just the 1st step of turning women into incubators and chattel.

I wasn't bragging. I was just saying because I have some money, my daughter will have an escape. But the poor and abused have no way out.

I think a good and moral society should take care of the weakest among them before they lavish luxuries on the rich. This Texas law does just the opposite.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Who is the woman quoted? She nails it.

[niyad]

7. KNR

[lindysalsagal]

8. Yuppies. Plus the legislation of Jesus. Don't forget that.

[dlk]

9. This also about males, particularly white males, having dominion over women's bodies

White, male supremacy is on the march

[Sucha NastyWoman]

37. When they plant their seed

They don’t want some stupid little woman, having the ability to cancel his offspring.

[dlk]

40. On some level they resent the fact that women can do something they never can

And this is their response.

[czarjak]

54. Lock-Steppers march in unison.

[Phoenix61]

10. Rich women have always been able to get an abortion.nt

[marybourg]

11. They are resentful that the poor can have sex.

How dare they!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. The Republican anthem....

"Freedoms for me, but not for thee."

Freedom in moderation is like love. It's an EITHER/OR. One cannot be moderately loved or moderately free.

[Seinan Sensei]

13. "Prenatal lives matter"

No.
*ALL* lives matter.
At every point in their life. Any age. All ages.

[Upthevibe]

14. Correct....

And throw in the CRAZY evangelical beliefs and there you have it.....disgusting......

[Jon King]

15. Dems have to paint all Repugs with this, not just Texas.

Every Democrat starting now must say over and over that all Repug candidates and office holders support this. Start now and continue through the midterms and 2024. Tie them all to it, make them state they support it, over and over and over again.

[Marigold]

16. Exactly Right

This is exactly right. But it won't just be poor white women who will be bearing these children. It will be brown and black women too, leading to the demographic shift the dying white dinosaurs are desperately trying to stop.

[Aviation Pro]

17. They don't acknowledge that there are poor white women?

Interesting.

[CCExile]

21. In Texas, poor white women rank pretty low, over all. I'm a life long Texan, but today I'm getting

on Zillow, with the aim of slding over to New Mexico. This place sucks, and is a total embarrassment.

[Dreampuff]

34. I'm happy for you.

I wish you well in your move to a free state / country.

[soldierant]

45. New Mexico has its red spots (as doesn't everywhere!), but it's

a whole heck of a lot better than Texas.

And it really is a land of enchantment.

[lark]

18. RW oligarchs goal is to create a society of ignorant desperate workers willing to work for nothing.

They wants serfs and barons and you know which we will be. Unfortunately judges all come from this class and they want the same thing and have just taken a huge step forward to increase the poverty and desperation of young women & their children. Fuck them all, I hope this motivates a flood of women to yank all those rw male assholes legislators & judges out of their jobs.

[Prichards115]

19. need to abuse the reporting hotline

It is absolutely essential that the reporting hotline get abused past the point of breaking it. Under the abysmal illegal ban the informant is NOT required to live in the state of texas, SOOOOO, everybody can sue republicans under the presumption that they assisted in an abortion. Since the ban is illegal do you really give a shit if you falsely report a repuke? I sure as shit don't. Let's cripple the state with lawsuits and I do mean cripple their entire legal system FORCING them to ONLY deal with this one issue because there isn't enough time and resources to do ANYTHING else. They must be FORCED to repeal the law or watch their state judiciary collapse. Fuck Texas!

[FakeNoose]

23. Yes that hotline is already being abused, and it started yesterday

The Tik-tockers will have that thing shut down in record time.
Even DUers are participating and we're pretty sedate compared to the Tik-tockers.

[True Blue American]

55. I thought the hotline

Crashed with people calling in all over the world.

The only bright spot is this, along with ignorant voting right laws are pushing Democrats to act.

Pelosi is presenting a bill. President Biden is taking action. We need to stomp them down hard.

But you know Republicans are ecstatic. President Biden’s ratings have fallen from 80% approval You You all the way down to. 70%! When Trump never got out of the 40’s.

And that is with the steady, hysterical drumbeat of the MSM hate Biden! That has abated since every one turned on the MSM and backed Biden ending the war!

[Paladin]

25. Whatever it takes... (nt)

[LeftInTX]

29. It's not a real hotline....

It's not put out by the State of Texas...It's put out by Texas Right to Life...

It's fun to spam it and gunk it up...

Texas Right to Life will probably remove this stupid form.

In the end, it will be a James O'Keefe or David Daleiden or a copy cat who do dirty work to find a woman or provider....They will get a hippy looking type woman to infiltrate women's circles...

All this talk you're seeing on DU...they will find these women in real life....they will find a woman who wants an abortion. They will pose as a woman who can help her...
It will be dirty tricksters, not a stupid internet form....

[IronLionZion]

20. Not many blue states are driving distance from Texas

They would have to drive to New Mexico or someplace like that.

[Retrograde]

52. New Mexico has a substantial border with Texas

Of course, it's on the less populated west side of the state. But yes, if you're in Houston, Dallas, Corpus Christi it's a long way to somewhere that values women's rights.

[Paladin]

22. I hope there's some serious research going on in Austin, right now.

I can virtually promise that there have been abortions paid for by current Republican state legislators and officeholders; it's been going on for generations. Their names need to be on the front pages of every major Texas newspaper, and all over the place online. The sooner the better.

The same goes for the "vigilantes" created by that disgusting new law: if they want their $10,000 blood money payoff, their identities ought to be known, far and wide.

[evolves]

24. Unfortunately, I don't think that matters.

We have a rep. in TN who is a physician and impregnated one of his staff and one of his patients. He paid for those abortions, something that has been public for years. He’s been in Congress over 10 years and is still getting re-elected. It’s mind-boggling.

[Snackshack]

30. DesJarlais?

I still don’t get how the GOPers do this 💩 and still manage to remain in office yet a Dems has a racy picture taken that is obviously in jest. Just that no actual pregnancy followed by abortion or the dolling out a prescription drugs like DesJarlais and the ex White House doctors now in congress Jackson but the Dem has to resign in shame and never be heard from again. When GOPers do have to resign they go to some well paid consulting congress job while rehabbing their characters and then jump back in to politics and run again like the Greitens character.

[evolves]

32. He's the one.

It’s unbelievable, yet continues to happen.

[jmbar2]

43. Report him to the Hotline even if he's not in TX!

[Marigold]

31. " D and C's"

It has been going on for generations for wealthier women. In the 80's I used to work in a local hospital. There was a steady stream of "D and C's" scheduled that everyone knew was just code for abortion. Meanwhile the protesters were standing outside of Planned Parenthood.

[Racygrandma]

38. I remember that

I graduated high school in 1973 in a small town close to Wichita. I remember the girls that had to have a D & C. For years I did not know what that meant, I do now. Back then doctors did that. I am tired of pro lifers, they would keep real busy if they helped the kids that were here now, but they are not interested in that, just let them get sick do not provide health care. What about access to prenatal care, not ever a mention of that. My mother had 5 kids and raised them herself, I remember all the hungry days, never a hand to help.

[CrispyQ]

26. Here are some other spot on memes.

[yonder]

36. +1. All-around good post

[crickets]

41. +1000000

[NotANeocon]

49. But but but

what is a TaliBornAgain hypocrite supposed to do while waiting for the apocalypse and making money?

[Snackshack]

27. Well that makes

The anti-choice people even greater sociopathic evil-do’ers (to coin a phrase) then I had given them credit for. To use a child, that they supposedly care about and revere as nothing more than a financial vehicle to pin another down into poverty takes nefariousness to a whole new level.

[packman]

28. Damn, she makes sense

A Dem?

[intheflow]

33. Don't forget ensuring an endless supply of fodder for endless wars.

Where will get disposable soldiers if abortion is available? I honestly think some politicians think this way.

[hadEnuf]

35. We all just want to thank the pro-life women of our great state

for finally turning their bodies over to the common sense men of Texas. Your baby-ovens will now be safe from the influences of those socialist librul women who want to take away your freedom to follow our better judgement. We're glad that you understand that these librul commie skanks have absolutely nothing in common with you or your bodies and that they are actually of another species. (I even have an expert friend who tells me that theirs is horizontal and not vertical, yuk, yuk). And as an added bonus, we'll throw in a cash reward for those who turn in their own kind who are stupid enough to give up their freedoms to follow our rules over their bodies!

We all are relieved that you finally understand that the oven does not tell the baker that it does not want to bake a loaf of bread today, nor does it choose what kind of bread it bakes.

The baker is in charge of that, as it is meant to be.


Welcome aboard!


Sincerely,

The Texas Taliban


just in case

[bucolic_frolic]

39. State of Texas needs to tell, in court, WHY they enacted these laws

There is no compelling reason for the State to do so, other than to force religious beliefs on the general public, as far as I can tell.

It's not about freedom, public health, taxation, law enforcement. It is a religious preference codified into law.

[crickets]

42. It's about MONEY and POWER. Always has been. nt

[CaptainTruth]

44. The real agenda...

[link:|]

[Lithos]

47. Felons who have served their sentence in Texas can vote

n/t

[Lithos]

46. You have to ask why the card was *finally* played

Abbott needs a diversion from the huge mismanagement of things such as Covid and the piss-poor management of the Texas Power Grid.

He is throwing literally everything he has at his base in hopes it is enough to be re-elected.

L-

[Rhiannon12866]

48. The Daily Show - Lindy West on the reality of abortion

[Ferrets are Cool]

50. K and R

[BobTheSubgenius]

51. My wife used to be jointly responsible for running an "anti-teen-pregnancy" program for the B&GCA.

Their particular program was massively successful - 100% so - and she was incredibly committed to it. A good part of the reason why it succeeded so well,

[C Moon]

53. The GOP loves making abortion an issue: it puts a fire under the religious right

and will move the religious Republicans who weren't happy with Trump, back to their side.
It always works.
Hopefully, we can get the left up in arms about this next election.