There are three Native American reservations in Texas.

[nolabear]

What would happen if an abortion clinic opened on one?

[Mosby]

1. Thats a more realistic idea than federal property.

I don't know how NAs feel about abortion though. Or if different tribes hold different opinions, which they most likely do. Most NAs are Christians. The Navaho aren't fans:



https://navajotimes.com/opinion/essay/abortion-is-not-a-solution-for-native-women/

[ChazII]

5. Thank you for sharing this link. n/t

[lagomorph777]

2. They would make tons of money, like the casino thing.

[LeftInTX]

9. The Kickapoo tribe in South Texas near Laredo (Eagle Pass) is only 120 acres..

Large casino and not much else. I don't know if they would want the medical liability...There is no healthcare or clinics on the reservation. There is a daycare..I guess that's the closest thing to a "medical facility".

Tribes in Texas were basically wiped out by the Spanish and had no legal rights. Native Americans were put in Spanish missions and then were given small land grants if they "graduated" from the mission. Even before the Spanish came, Native Americans in South Texas were a hodge podge of very small bands of hunters and gatherers. They did not have a high population. They came from all over South Texas to Missions in San Antonio, hence losing any tribal identity. The purpose of the missions was to teach them job skills, so that they could become taxpayers.

Texas is one of the few states with almost no tribal presence. We have Native-Americans, but they are not federally recognized.

The Kickapoo tribe in Eagle Pass are actually a tribe that was displaced from the Midwest.

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But I do plan to watch the 2024 total eclipse at Lucky Eagle.

[Effete Snob]

3. I think they'd want to know who did that

[hlthe2b]

4. Native Americans are no monolith. Depends on the tribe.

[LeftInTX]

6. Kickapoo is real small 120 acres. casino, day care, PD and a few homes..pop 418

But it's on the border, which is a good spot. (Eagle Pass, which is near Laredo)

The one in El Paso is on the NM border. 76 acres. Might as well go to NM.

The Alabama-Coushatta near Houston, is the largest at 4,000 acres.

[msongs]

7. the problem is not having an abortion, the problem is assisting those who do nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Maybe a better question would be whether they want one or not.

White people relying on BIPOC to save them is a bad habit white people need to break.

[LeftInTX]

11. I totally agree...

[Judi Lynn]

13. White people have taken far, far too much from Native people to justify one more service from them.

This continent would be an entirely different world without the genocide, and the inhuman abuse heaped upon the survivors.

[dalton99a]

10. Highly unlikely

https://www.wxxinews.org/post/reproduction-reservation-history-forced-sterilization-native-american-women
'Reproduction on the Reservation': The history of forced sterilization of Native American women
By Beth Adams • Oct 28, 2019

In the fall of 2016, thousands of people gathered at the Standing Rock Reservation to protest the proposed construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.

During the protest, a Lakota woman gave birth in a teepee near the Cannonball River.

One of the reasons she cited for not going to an Indian Health Service hospital to deliver her child is the 40-year history of forced sterlizations of indigenous women by the federal government.

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https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/
A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters
By Brianna Theobald
Updated: November 28, 2019

Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age, and there is evidence suggesting that the numbers were actually even higher. Some of these procedures were performed under pressure or duress, or without the women’s knowledge or understanding. The law subsidized sterilizations for patients who received their health care through the Indian Health Service and for Medicaid patients, and black and Latina women were also targets of coercive sterilization in these years.

[hamsterjill]

12. While I'm not sure this would work, I like that you are thinking outside of the box.

It's this type of strategy that we need to work around the stupid ass law that Abbutt has passed. We need some creativity and to fight the Republicans at their own game.

Great post!