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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe was a 'quintessential pro-life Texan' until she needed to flee her home to get an abortion
Michael J. Stern
@MichaelJStern1
She was a "pro-life" Republican.
When she needed an abortion in her home state of Texas because of medical dangers, she could not get one. She had to flee to New Mexico.
Now she supports abortion rights.
She was a 'quintessential pro-life Texan' until she needed to flee her home to get an abortion
@MichaelJStern1
She was a "pro-life" Republican.
When she needed an abortion in her home state of Texas because of medical dangers, she could not get one. She had to flee to New Mexico.
Now she supports abortion rights.
She was a 'quintessential pro-life Texan' until she needed to flee her home to get an abortion
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She was a 'quintessential pro-life Texan' until she needed to flee her home to get an abortion (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Sep 2022
OP
And there's always the chance that the relative who lent them thousands of dollars
no_hypocrisy
Sep 2022
#2
And the legislators who passed the law don't want to discuss the consequences--
Timeflyer
Sep 2022
#6
"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" Anecdotes from a clinic-disturbing/powerful
keithbvadu2
Sep 2022
#7
Skittles
(153,169 posts)1. that's the thing with repukes
they ONLY care when it affects them
Merlot
(9,696 posts)3. True, but they've also been told many lies about abortion
Until something like this happens they have no understanding of abortion being a health & life saving proceedure. They've been sold a melodrama about all the aborted "children" living in heaven. They are uneducated on the realities.
Reality is hard.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)5. I'm glad that she continued to care about it...
... afterwards though. Too many of folks like this become pro-choice only long enough to make their own choice.
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)2. And there's always the chance that the relative who lent them thousands of dollars
to leave Texas to get an abortion in New Mexico can turn them in and get $10,000 bounty if it isn't paid back.
Texas sucks. Vote for Beto.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,641 posts)4. A big, fat K&R! n/t
Timeflyer
(1,994 posts)6. And the legislators who passed the law don't want to discuss the consequences--
forced vasectomies all around for them.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)7. "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" Anecdotes from a clinic-disturbing/powerful