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5. Now they're resorting to "infanticide" laws

Tue May 24, 2016, 05:56 PM

May 2016

Last edited Tue May 24, 2016, 06:37 PM - Edit history (1)

as a means of further oppressing and terrifying women.

the conservative hypocrisy reeks as they seem to be only concerned with one right, but hate the fact that there are others that prevent them from requiring women to take a monthly pregnancy test.

It is ridiculous in this day and time that this is even an issue.

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Up against strict laws, Texas women learn do-it-yourself abortions [View all] Judi Lynn May 2016 OP

Thank you Texas GOP pmorlan1 May 2016 #1

Women on the waves have been doing this all over the world...we can get around these laws haikugal May 2016 #2

TRUMP'S GOING TO BUILD THAT TRUMP WALL bucolic_frolic May 2016 #3

Yeah, I've been thinking the same. n/t RKP5637 May 2016 #6

He always has this need to dominate and control bucolic_frolic May 2016 #13

The fools that vote for him have no idea ... n/t RKP5637 May 2016 #16

This news makes me cringe... ReRe May 2016 #4

Now they're resorting to "infanticide" laws askeptic May 2016 #5

I just can't comprehend why a woman would vote for republicans, and especially RKP5637 May 2016 #7

If they have to have children they don't want and can't take care of Demobrat May 2016 #20

... but why would they vote for Trump? n/t RKP5637 May 2016 #22

Because Trump think women who have abortions Demobrat May 2016 #36

Yep! n/t RKP5637 May 2016 #38

Didn't Trump want Marla Maples to have an abortion? She didn't, and ended up giving birth to their smirkymonkey May 2016 #51

What do you expect from a guy who Demobrat May 2016 #52

I think your numbers are off with regards to 80 percent being married. StevieM May 2016 #11

Sorry - misremembered (!) askeptic May 2016 #18

No problem. It happens to all of us at some point. (eom) StevieM May 2016 #19

More women are going to skip going to the OB to have Ilsa May 2016 #28

Such a backward place. n/t RKP5637 May 2016 #8

and some of these women will die or get severe infecions. damn the GOP riversedge May 2016 #9

In 2011 there were 46 clinics. Igel May 2016 #10

This is a horrible effect of the Texas TRAP laws Gothmog May 2016 #12

When I was in my teens and abortions were illegal fasttense May 2016 #14

The ones I knew were sent away to school. Demobrat May 2016 #21

So tragic. smirkymonkey May 2016 #42

I remember the 1960s FuzzyRabbit May 2016 #15

Until it happens to their own daughters. nt Ilsa May 2016 #26

Then they'll be the first to look for a good, safe abortion for her. nt raccoon May 2016 #39

You are so right. fasttense May 2016 #44

Fuck republicans. All of them. And a share of dems, too. CrispyQ May 2016 #17

Conservatives really DO love women-- Nirgendwo May 2016 #23

Is this 2016 or 1620? Brother Joe Observes May 2016 #24

1620. The oligarchs want us back to the era of no rights and neo-feudalism. Opress, Opress. Dont call me Shirley May 2016 #25

So, in Texas elmac May 2016 #27

The right to safe abortions is like pregnancy. Either you're pregnant or not. Either the right to a valerief May 2016 #29

Yep. "Sorta legal" drug-war laws Still maintain prohibition. Eleanors38 May 2016 #41

So incredibly sad. I never thought id see women in that situation again in the US nt riderinthestorm May 2016 #30

I really can't believe this is happening here. smirkymonkey May 2016 #43

In Texas Thespian2 May 2016 #31

+1000 okieinpain May 2016 #48

decades ago, the feminist health movement was talking about teaching women how to do niyad May 2016 #32

hope they never use one of these ,,, allan01 May 2016 #33

As always, very informative emsimon33 May 2016 #34

And the 19th century starts again in 3...2.... AlbertCat May 2016 #35

So it's back to the back alleys, this time over the border in Ciudad Ju�rez. Surya Gayatri May 2016 #37

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #40

Kick sarcasmo May 2016 #45

Texas is lapsing into a third world state. noneko May 2016 #46

They just had a vote to secede which was narrowly defeated DesertRat May 2016 #53

That's a convention vote. kentauros May 2016 #54

I lived in TX for three years DesertRat May 2016 #55

Well, if you did live here, kentauros May 2016 #56

Oh great... noneko May 2016 #57

wonder if she and the ones doing the illegal abortions voted. n/t. okieinpain May 2016 #47

what is illegal? riversedge May 2016 #49

Like it or not abortions are technically illegal okieinpain May 2016 #58

I remember pre Roe v Wade Mz Pip May 2016 #50