It is truly appalling how many low-information right-wing voters out there think that the Republican Party really does stand for individual responsibility and small government. There was a time, and a lot of us older posters remember it, when the Republican Party really did respect personal choice and the right of a woman to determine her own fertility or whether or not to have an abortion.
In Texas, those days are gone, gone, gone, and have been for decades. Sure, there are still a few pro-choice people who vote Republican, but the Republicans they vote for are rabidly anti-abortion, equally determined to gut access to women's health clinics for poorer Texans, and would join the Tali-born-agains' jihad against birth control at the drop of a dime. Jeff Wentworth was the last Republican politician of note who was even moderately pro-choice and he got replaced by fervently anti-abortion Tea Party-sympathizing right-winger Donna Campbell.
Want to improve women's health, Doc Duell? Pass a bill requiring crisis pregnancy clinics to have full-time doctors and registered nurses on site to give accurate, truthful medical advice!
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