Oh Hell No
Oh hell, this is just crazy.
The State of Texas has passed a law requiring health clinics and abortion providers to give a state-issued brochure to women considering an abortion.
It is a lovely thing filed with guilt, lies, incorrect medical information and real bad advice. We’re talking crappy advice.
By the way, starting on December 19th any fetal material from abortions and miscarriages have to be buried or cremated. How you can perform a “funeral” without a birth or death certificate is beyond me.
Critics have lambasted the brochure for using loaded language and reprinting factual errors, such as linking abortion to a higher risk of breast cancer and that a fetus can feel pain in the early stages of pregnancy. In both cases, scientific studies have debunked those suggestions, although the pamphlet reports them as fact.
Other revisions are linguistic, such as increasing use of the term “your baby” to describe the fetus from four references in the last version to 79 in the version released Monday.
But the stinkin’ advice making headlines today is that the brochure advises women to call 911 if they “feel pressured” into having an abortion. Texas Right-to-Life takes credit for this change and they got it at taxpayer expense.
The Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas is not pleased, saying such calls could impede the response to emergencies like shootings and home invasions.
“Texas police are short-staffed all over the state in big urban departments and in small rural places and everything in between, so unless someone’s holding you down trying to force you to have an abortion, then you’re going to be placed on a priority two or three,” said Charley Wilkison, executive director of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, also known as CLEAT.
I am not real sure what “feeling pressured” means. But whatever it means, it’s not an emergency. It is, however, one more way to put government in your uterus.
“feeling pressured” is the result of the Forced Birthers sticking their noses where they don’t belong and misusing the government to do it. Can’t these bozos be arrested for playing doctor without a license?
1Mercy, mercy, mercy. Shared on FB.
2Oh cripes! Is there NO creativity left in this world?
Write this down:
1. Shred state-supplied brochure in paper shredder.
2. Place shreds in ziplock plastic bag.
3. Place Happy Face sticker on front of bag.
4. Give to patient with a smile and say, “This is from the State of Texas”.
TA -DA!!!
Step 4 is optional or can be added to as you please.
3How about if you are being pressured NOT to have an abortion? Or threatened? Or kept prisoner? Is it OK to call 911 then, also?
4Fetal material from miscarriages has to be buried or cremated. What the difference is between cremation and the usual burning of medical remains I don’t know. But apparently any woman who has a heavy start to a late period had better not flush in the state of Texas. (A lot of embryos that aren’t right go that way just after they get started.)
5Maybe we should start with mandatory sex ed classes… for the State Lege? I’m not sure they really know about this whole baby-making stuff.
6Well JAKvirginia, the Old Testament was pretty vague. You know, with all the begattin and knowin and all.
7It’s been well established that Texas congresscritters know nothing about conception, since they believe that it can’t happen as a result of a rape.
8The uninformed (un-marriage worthy) men who are so afraid of women’s sexuality really need psychiatric help.
9Old line but a good one: Men can make abortion policy when mermaids make shoes.
10And if the 911 caller is transgender and there is probable cause to believe that they are in the wrong stall is a warrant required?
11The wingnut right simply has to get over their sexual obsession. Maybe if they had some . . . ?
12I thought the taleban ™ were on the other side of the world. What is it with conservatives and their obsession with the sexual lives of other people? Creepy…
13OK. None of this makes sense but I am sure that doesn’t bother the Texas lege or the forced birthers. there is one anti-abortion religion that does not have any sort of burial liturgy for still born preemies or full term preemies. They aren’t worth it cuz they never drew a breath. It was up to the survivors as to what was done with a stillborn. My stillborn brother (a year before me) ended up in a medical school and not as a student. the professor who took charge was doing research on just what produces a stillbirth. I guess if such study is still ongoing these days in Texas, he would be in trouble with the law no matter how much good came from such research.
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