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    People are not gonna stop wanting abortions, they’re not gonna get comfortable seeing ten year olds give birth, you can’t legislate this away, so by taking and taking these rights from people you’re squishing them down more and at some point they’re gonna explode

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    I live in Texas, and can’t wait to gth out. This state has become so authoritarian it’s not even funny. Everyone is too busy being in everyone else’s business, especially if they think they can make a quick buck.

    When I first moved here, it was a wonderful state to live in, but since djt was voted in it went completely backwards. The obvious racism, bigotry and hatred has really come to the forefront of life around here.

    Not to mention the mentality that if they think it’s in the book of fairy tales, called the bible, then that is the supreme law. They are so busy pushing their beliefs on you, and telling you that you should believe in their ways, has gotten out of hand. IMHO texas needs to secede from the US so they can burn in their own personal hell. Let people decide for themselves what they believe and what they can do with their own bodies.

    Fuck Texas! I didn’t move here to be told how to live my life.

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      I didn’t move here to be told how to live my life.

      You kinda did though…Texas has a long history of dictating what people can and can’t do. They’re great at PR, but they never liked when anybody is or does something they don’t agree with.

      Lawrence v. Texas was the exact case that made it illegal for Texas to kick doors down and arrest consenting adults for what they do in their bedrooms. Prior to that, cops could kick your shit in if they even suspected you were practicing anything but straight sex in the missionary position if they felt like it.

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        I e no realized this. My wife, born Texan, and I both are getting out of here asap. We’re going to Colorado and starting fresh their. I hate authoritarianism, especially in Texas. It’s the worst and I grew up in a red state.

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      I live in Texas, and can’t wait to gth out.

      This is a major part of the GOP strategy.

      Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri has openly acknowledged that the GOP strategy is to make it so miserable for Democrats in red and purple states that they will move to blue states. That would, in turn, cement Republican power in the White House, Senate and thereby the Supreme Court.

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        I know, but Texas has gone to hell in a hand basket, like most red states. Never realized how bad the GOP really was until the orange shitstain was in office

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      I left a decent paying job in Texas and it ended up being one of the worst and most expensive decisions of my life. Guess which asshat is going to be forced to try to get his job back and move back to the Regime of Texas…

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    But, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson (2021), the Supreme Court effectively shut down federal lawsuits challenging unconstitutional laws that are enforced solely by bounty hunters.

    As the Supreme Court said in Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), “the nature of our Federal Union and our constitutional concepts of personal liberty unite to require that all citizens be free to travel throughout the length and breadth of our land uninhibited by statutes, rules, or regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict this movement.”

    And, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court agreed that this bounty hunter framework immunized the law from federal lawsuits seeking to block it.

    That’s why it was so important to block the law before anyone was sued under it, and why the Supreme Court’s decision to immunize SB 8 from federal review was such a harsh blow to abortion rights in Texas.

    Under that legislation, the ban on traveling through the wrong Texas county to help someone obtain an abortion “shall be enforced exclusively through … private civil actions.”

    But the law could wind up deterring women in abusive relationships, or other patients whose acquaintances or family members learn that they are seeking an abortion.


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  • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.works
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    Growing up, I used to always want to visit the US.

    Now, I refuse to step foot in it. No tourism will ever be worth risking my life, or risking my partners life. I’ll spend my money somewhere else.

    I feel horrible for everyone who has to suffer because of these changes. It sounds less and less like what I once believed the US to stand for.