September 02, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
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EXACTLY!!!! As I have said before ALL abortion rules and regulations are only about make life hard on POOR people.
1Also when a woman miscarries, who is going to report gawd to texas-stan lawmen????? And who is going to bring it to court??? I know that if a woman miscarries SHE will be brought up on abortion charges!!!
2Perhaps now a good time to make child support and collection rules statewide. I divorced in Bell County; my ex was hit or miss and finally just stopped paying. If I had divorced in Harris County, the Sheriff would just pick him up and give him lodging until he could explain it all to a judge. Inequity for women, and subsequently children, needs to stop!
3This is going to break the court system.
4I say abortion access should remain safe and legal until women can no longer be impregnated against their will. And since that will never happen, it must be allowed. I almost can’t believe they didn’t allow exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, etc. But then, this IS Texas, where men are manly men and women are apparently chattel.
5I am beyond mad today–even though I don’t live in Texas, am waaayyy beyond my child-bearing years, and live in a place that is so opposite to Texas, it might as well be on another planet.
Picture this: It’s 1970 or 71 and my next-door neighbor has given me a ride home from UTEP where we were both going to school. She, a mother of three boys, was working to get a degree so that she could teach school. I was about 19 or so and always saw her a somewhat of an airhead, married to a jerk, IMHO.
Before I got out of the car, she asked me to sit for a minute because she had something to tell me. She had been arranging abortions for women for a while with a real doctor who crisscrossed the state doing this. He had been caught and arrested; but, she assured me, she was on the lookout for somebody new.
So, if I ever needed an abortion, she would see that I was taken care of. Needless to say, I was gobsmacked. She and my mother were friends even after the neighbor moved to Florida. I never said a word to my mother about it.
Two years later, Roe v. Wade was handed down and that took care of this business. Now, here we are again, only this time a rapist can claim $10K by turning in his victim.
Texas won’t force a 14 year-old girl to wear a mask, but it will force her to carry a baby (which, by definition, is the result of rape). What’s wrong with this picture?
6I thought the law would allow the vigilantes to sue and collect even if the abortion was performed in another state. You could sue the ride-share driver that drove her to the airport and the airline that carried her there. Or person that drove her out of state. If she drove herself you could sue the gas station that sold her gas. Aiding and Abetting all the way.
Don’t you just love small government conservatives.
7The religious far right supremes have Roe V Wade in their sights and may pull the trigger soon. Women’s rights, voting rights- what’s next to fall?
8Not always, but often anti-abortion activists bring God and their religious belief into the debate.
Now Texas has joined church and state together, and introduced vigilante justice enforcement into the system.
What could possibly go wrong?
9I predict no one will ever collect the ten grand.
10Snitches get stitches.
11@10 Ormund,
I predict lawyers are already lining up to encourage anyone who is against an abortion to use this as a paycheck.
I have not looked at the details, but my rough understanding is that the person suing the facilitator of a woman getting an abortion does not have to have any relationship at all to the people involved. So greedy sum bitches will be lining up to sue anyone they can–even if they are not anti-abortion.
Or is it you think such cases will be thrown out either in court on in the appeals? I apparently no longer have that kind of faith in the judicial system.
12Texas is governed in true Taliban style. Religious radicals who mix in politics bring about stoning in the streets. This will spread across the red states, I fear!
13I wonder how this will turn out… Maybe be a good thing? TelAbortions.org. I saw it discussed in last year’s NY Times. If a woman can drive herself to Colorado or New Mexico, or travel to any of 14 other states, she can be gone for awhile, have teleconferencing, receive mail at her friends’ house or the hotel she’s lodging at, and do her own abortion. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/health/telabortion-abortion-telemedicine.html?searchResultPosition=1
14Something that I haven’t seen anybody mention yet, anywhere I’ve looked:
Another related thing that the Texass Taliban are ramming through is outlawing the ‘day after pill’. They have been working on this for years and decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifepristone
The Talibangelicals have also been quietly working on abolishing –birth-control pills–, that will be the next item that zips through the totally Rethug lege.
Bill limiting abortion-inducing pills nears final passage in the Texas Legislature:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-abortion-inducing-pill-texas/
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15I keep hoping that the Democrats will wake up and mount a mirror-image 24/7/365 offensive against our common enemy, the same as they, the Rethugs, remain wholly focused and on the attack at all times.
But Democrats never seem to get the ‘big picture’, and are always flitting from one ‘charismatic’ issue or person at a time, without keeping –all– the dots connected. Perpetually distracted by peripheral petty crap.
And never, or rarely, realizing that they are locked in a fight –to the death– battle against a united, cohesive, utterly motivated, mortal enemy.
So don’t be surprised, these Amerikan Taliban have stayed on mission, on task, ever since the 1970s at least.
Yes well, that is GQP policy. Shaft the poor — everyone else either receives outright help or a get-out-of-jail-free card.
16Time for women and children to get the hell out of Taliban TX before it becomes the real life version of Margaret Atwood’s Gilead.
I can’t help to think of the 11 year old who is discovered 4 months pregnant by her uncle or the woman who came down with Rubella and carries a baby who will be born with severe disabilities or the woman who will die in great pain because she has an ectopic pregnancy that needs to be terminated. Does the SC and the GOP really want them to die?
17Forgot to mention “Plan B”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levonorgestrel
“Levonorgestrel is a hormonal medication which is used in a number of birth control methods.[5] It is combined with an estrogen to make combination birth control pills.[6] As an emergency birth control, sold under the brand name Plan B among others, it is useful within 72 hours. This should not be confused with EllaOne which can be effective within 120 hours (5 days) of unprotected sex.[5] “
18I predict that in one generation there will be enough new voters,
if brought up properly, to throw out these rascals.
A defense of “what specific day was I impregnated” still means you pay court costs.
19After watching Rachel Maddow’s coverage last night, I revised my Planned Parenthood donation up. And made a donation to Fund Texas Choice, which I’m appalled I did not know about until Rachel spoke of them last night.
20From a dissenting Supremes opinion on the 5-4 decision not to block this mess while it’s appealed –
“…unreasoned, inconsistent and impossible to defend”
And Papa#17…the answer is yes. Those of us without penises are totally expendable. Mere chattel. Nonpersons.
Gilead, indeed.
21I’ve never written about or shared this with anyone but my wife. In the late 1960s to early 1970s, starting when I was in high school, every 4-6 weeks I drove a bobtail truck from Fort Worth, Texas to Nuevo Laredo and then on to Monterrey, Mexico to pick up a load of wrought iron stock at the last place it was manufactured in North America. In those days before Roe v. Wade, a girl who “got in trouble” had limited choices, and one of them was an abortion clinic in Mexico. Once I took a friend there on my trip (no, I was not her impregnator, just a friend). After that on many trips I would have a high school or middle school girl with me, drop her off at the clinic, then pick her up on my way back.
Often she’d have a friend or relative to accompany her, but in some horrendous cases the girl would be alone. Way too often I’d be driving an emotional wreck 430 miles to Mexico, then an even more emotionally and physically wrecked girl 430 miles back. I’d do my best to help and support these victims, but there was little I could do in a truck so noisy that it was only possible to talk by shouting. I was 16-20 years old myself, with no training or ability to do more than the equivalent of saying “there, there”.
Those are my memories of what it was like before safe and legal abortions were available in Texas. Putting a plastic cover on the truck’s seat to avoid blood stains. At rest stops on the highway scanning for women who might be able and willing to accompany a girl to the restrooms, or who might check on her when she had been in there for over a half hour. Having a 14-18 year old girl sobbing for hours next to me, in an un-airconditioned truck driving through the south Texas desert. That’s the world Texas Republicans want to return to.
Here’s my prediction: some jackass Republican “business man” has already arranged to set up clinics in border towns like Matamoras, Piedras Negras, Reynosa, Ojinaga, and Juarez. Probably two in each town; an upscale one with trained doctors and nurses, paintings on the wall, and recovery rooms. And a second, lot cheaper one that’s not so clean or comfortable, where the girl has 15 minutes to recover before she is shoved out the door to make room for the next “patient”.
Republicans like Paxton, Abbot, Cruz, et al won’t do this directly themselves, but will gladly take “campaign contributions” or have their own profits hidden behind a blizzard of shell companies. No one here can seriously think their “pro-life” stance is motivated by genuine concern for the women, or deep religous beliefs. It’s power and money, period.
A neighbor of mine has a “no hate for anyone” sign in his front yard. It’s a great aspiration, but ‘ll never be able to not hate the kind of jerks that have rammed this bill through.
22BarbinDC, when I was in college (apparently about the same time as you), I had a roommate who had the phone number of “that woman in Dallas who would do abortions in her home.” This breaks my heart.
In April, I moved out of Texas after 71 years, and I don’t see any reason to want to go back. I’m not likely to live long enough to see it turn around, although I wish JJ all the support in the world to help make it happen.
weakgrip, get that next generation in JJ’s court!
23If this abomination keeps spreading through the states, I will be looking for connections to help these women, whether it’s through abortion pills or any other way. This fight is not over…not by a long shot. We are NOT going back. I’ve had two abortions…one illegal and one legal. Both sad but necessary, and I would not wish them, especially illegal, on anyone if they have an option…or, excuse me, a CHOICE. This really puts me in a rage.
24One thing that I’m hopeful about. Before Roe v. Wade, even the women who got pregnant had to overcome massive guilt feelings to get an abortion. Society, religon, and popular media made it clear that you were a Bad Person if you got one. But I think the young-uns (meaning any woman still of an age to get pregnant) nowadays are not as repressive. Nobody wants to get an abortion, but I think/hope that there’s less self-loathing involved.
weakgrip@19: I hope you’re right. But I was convinced in 1967 that racism in the US would die off as soon as the older generation did. That most of my peers were at the very least less racist. Man, was I ever wrong about that. Plus right now we are in a race between the rising numbers of aware voters, and the tsunami of voter laws to suppress them.
BarbinDC, djw: I wish I had known you 50 years ago. Or at least been able to refer some girls to you. But I was not in the college-going group, and lived in what would now be called a “disadvantaged” neighborhood. There was an informal support network, but it operated with no money and entirely in the demi-monde.
25Texas opened a hotline today, to report people getting or aiding abortion solutions. After less than an hour they’d blocked all emails from most of Europe and Australia.
People were calling in to report Loki, the Lone Ranger, Warren G Harding, and all the lawmakers who voted for this travesty. It crashed after a few hours operational.
Tomorrow I’m going to report Quannah Parker, Remus Lupin, and Oberon, King of the fairies.
26These people are soooo fixated on going to any lengths to stop abortions. *Except* providing cost free and widely available contraception, despite being the most effective means of decreasing the necessity for abortions…
27Based on states with prior RWNJ legislation, let me be one of those in Colorado to thank the Texas Legislature and Governor.
This nuttery will (unfortunately) bring lots of abortion travel to take advantage of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains — Abbott’s earlier “no nonessential medical procedures” effort drove up abortions at those facilities by 12x. That is a downside, but apparently, there were enough donations coming in to support the surge.
There will no doubt be many who use Colorado as an alternative destination for conventions and recreational travel. That’s what happened with Utah’s RWNJ effort to restrict outdoor recreation in the expanded national parks and monuments brought.
If upheld, I suspect there will be businesses who refuse to expand in Texas because of the impact of the decision on recruiting and retaining people. That’s what happened to the RWNJ states when they expressed concerns about trans-people’s bathroom choices or athletic competitions.
So, on behalf of Colorado’s economy, let me express appreciation to the great state of Texastan.
28The race is on for other repugnantican controlled states to one-up Texas to have the most anti-women’s rights legislation now that the supremes have put their stamp of approval on it. Same for anti-voter rights legislation because that’s what repugnanticans get off on. I hope major employers make these moves very costly to them by moving out of their states.
29Go to prolifewhistleblower.com and leave your tip on people wanting abortions. Your IP will be blocked after a tip or two but my dog left a hot tip on someone and she knows of which she barks.
30Go to another state? Hey, remember when years ago a woman had to fly to Scandinavia to have an abortion? The fetus was highly disabled and would never have survived outside the womb. She caught hell from the “Right to Lifers”. Does this mean that international air carriers are in the future of all women of any age or financial status seeking to exercise their reproductive rights? Or will all females of any age boarding such planes would have to prove they are not pregnant? Would men put up with that if they are seeking to reduce their social status as bulls?
31The government of Texas and the Supreme Court have both gone mad, at the expense of women. What is WRONG with this country? Surely some of them are old enough to remember what it was like before abortion was legal?
32“Surely some of them are old enough to remember what it was like before abortion was legal?”
yes, they are, and are desperate to return us to those golden years. as well, when only the “right” sort of people were allowed to vote. and “sundown” meant more than just evening coming on.
33I would like to see President Biden push the FDA to approve the morning after pills for OTC sales. Allow a woman to make their own choice, without doctor visits or prescriptions.
34Headline: “New Texas Law Allows Private Citizens To Hold Pregnant Women Hostage Until Birth”
https://www.theonion.com/new-texas-law-allows-private-citizens-to-hold-pregnant-1847602167
35“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose conscientiously whether she will or will not be a mother.” (Margaret Sanger, 1920)
36Coprolite @34, The Texass Taliban are on it already. SB 4 is heading for Guv Abbutt’s desk right now.
Many of y’all probably don’t think that their next effort will be to restrict or ban various forms of birth control and contraception. You would be wrong.
Bill [SB 4] limiting abortion-inducing pills heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk to be signed into law:
37https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-abortion-inducing-pill-texas/
I have not read the law passed but from what I have gathered it could be called The Texas Inquisition.
38Do I understand correctly that I can sue anybody whom I suspect of performing/assisting/inducing an abortion, whether or not I can prove it, and all I risk is the legal fees and some time in court? Does the law in fact say judges cannot throw out suits they find frivolous? If so, I would start suing all the people who have brought suit, and tie up them and the courts, and make a big mess out of this law. I bet I could find some liberal deep pockets to help with the legal fees.
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