News of the World: Texas Vs. Women

Texas passed one of the most draconian, restrictive laws against abortion in the United States in a total affront to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. 

The current Supreme Court refused to  interfere with the state’s strict abortion law which means evangelical Christians got what they paid for when they supported Donald Trump for President, a conservative Supreme Court that would act to over turn Roe V. Wade.

The three conservative justices who made it to the Supreme Court bench under Trump would duck and weave any direct questions on their view the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling by saying Roe V. Wade is considered settled even they all three had previously expressed clear sentiments that Roe V. Wade was a bad decision or that it clearly could be and should be overturned. 

The Texas anti-abortion law rolls the clock back to before 1973.

The law prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and before many women even know they’re pregnant.  

Here is where the law gets really perverse and repugnant.

Texas’ law prohibits state officials from enforcing the ban. It allows instead a so called "private right of action" allowing anyone, even someone outside of Texas, to sue abortion providers and anyone else who helps someone get an abortion. The law allows anyone who successfully sues another person would be entitled to at least $10,000.

In short, the state of Texas has turned the enforcement of their anti-abortion law over to private bounty hunters. 

It's like something Margaret Atwood though up for The Handmaid's Tale then reconsidered as too crazy. Texas did that. 

Let me state something I've written about before.

I am not FOR abortion but I am also not for telling a woman what to do with her body. 

For more on that click the links for these two posts, one from July 12, 2018:

A Sad and Terrible Thing

And the other from May 17, 2019

American Women Under Assault

As I wrote in the 2018 post about a debate I witnessed back in the early 1980's.  

Person One believed a woman should be able to have an abortion if the life of the mother was in danger.

Person Two believed no woman should be able to have an abortion for any reason, even if the life of the mother was in danger. 

I should point out that Person One was a woman; Person Two was a man.  

Yes, the man who was never, ever going to be pregnant was of the mindset that the women who could get pregnant should stay pregnant, even if it kills them. 

It should come as no surprise that Texas' massive refutation of a woman's right to choose what to do with her body is the work of men. 

A group of men have decided that the pregnant women of Texas must stay pregnant even if it kills them.

A group of men have put a $10,000 bounty on the head of any woman who dares to do anything about that. 

A group of men have decided on a new way to subjugate women. 

This is something that must not stand.