As a married woman living in TX, I will no longer be having sex

[Texin]

45. I think a lot of women (not just married ones) are locking up their vaginas at this point.

If your spouse and other women's spouses divorce as a result, they're likely not going to be finding a whole slew of women - old or younger - willing to blithely spread their legs from now on without a ring, a wedding date and the pastor, officiator or priest at the ready. Of course, the men can just go full on psychopathic pirate, because the laws don't apply to them any longer.

The days of "casual sex" can be seen from one's rearview window henceforth.

I too live in Texas. Back when I was 45 and unmarried at the time to the man I'd later marry, I fell pregnant for the first time in my life after having several serious long term partners previously. I had an abortion because we'd discussed children and decided that we'd not be having them, primarily because my now husband is 12 years older than I am, and he had two adolescent boys (ages 11 and 12), and he didn't want to raise another one, and I was always ambivalent about having a kid of my own so WE made the choice to end the pregnancy. I don't regret it. And I never did. I feared at the age of 45 my own health would be at risk, and since I wasn't actually married at that time, I had no guarantees that the father would be in my life in the future. And since I was well into middle age, I felt a pregnancy would endanger my job in a very competitive firm. There was no way I would have been able to raise any child alone and/or jobless. Now every young girl, young woman or mature woman in Texas no longer has a choice. We've essentially become service animals. Chattel property.

Fuck those goddamned justices, fuck Abbott and all the rest of those legislators right out of the Handmaids' Tale to hell. May they burn eternally.