Conservatives in smaller Texas cities have recently pursued a citizen-driven regulation of state and federal highways, in direct violation of Interstate Commerce, to further enforce abortion bans.
So if the people in these towns have large families, how do they have time to police the streets to make sure women aren't getting abortions? If they don't have very large families, are they not having sex? The school districts must be enormous! Or are these like the conservative Catholic women I have known who except themselves from the no-contraception rule?
I don't ever hear these people claiming that THEY have 10 children, and they can afford their every need by working a job in Llano, Texas. At the truck stop/gas station where they sell such delicious coffee?
These fervent defenders of the unborn fetus don't make sense. Of course there are the other obvious discrepancies, like their lack of support for maternal and child care, substandard school systems, low wages for caregivers, and the expense of child care.
I suspect that a lot of this goes back to the plantation owner's stance on no state-funded education. Why white people in the South tolerated the competition from free labor, and turned their anger and frustration into a hatred of those forced to provide the free labor is a mystery to me.
But Texas schools continue to be some of the worst in the nation. Since there's a lack of knowledge about science, you'd guess that mysticism and religion fill in the blanks, but Texas Christians are darn picky about what neighbors they love as themselves.
As Ian said, I wouldn't count on the SCOTUS *not* upholding this type of law, but it does tend to wander off into abrogating certain civil rights and constitutional rights. Y'know, like, free association, and stuff like that. And I'm not a legal pro, so that's just what I could think of off the top of my head. I'm thinking that, sooner or later, the people of these small towns are going to get fed up like those of us in Michigan and vote themselves out of that mess. It might still take a while, and a lot of folks might end up injured as a result, but you cannot oppress people for too long without something blowing wide open.
So if the people in these towns have large families, how do they have time to police the streets to make sure women aren't getting abortions? If they don't have very large families, are they not having sex? The school districts must be enormous! Or are these like the conservative Catholic women I have known who except themselves from the no-contraception rule?
I don't ever hear these people claiming that THEY have 10 children, and they can afford their every need by working a job in Llano, Texas. At the truck stop/gas station where they sell such delicious coffee?
These fervent defenders of the unborn fetus don't make sense. Of course there are the other obvious discrepancies, like their lack of support for maternal and child care, substandard school systems, low wages for caregivers, and the expense of child care.
I suspect that a lot of this goes back to the plantation owner's stance on no state-funded education. Why white people in the South tolerated the competition from free labor, and turned their anger and frustration into a hatred of those forced to provide the free labor is a mystery to me.
But Texas schools continue to be some of the worst in the nation. Since there's a lack of knowledge about science, you'd guess that mysticism and religion fill in the blanks, but Texas Christians are darn picky about what neighbors they love as themselves.
It's really annoying that idiots are driving the bus
As Ian said, I wouldn't count on the SCOTUS *not* upholding this type of law, but it does tend to wander off into abrogating certain civil rights and constitutional rights. Y'know, like, free association, and stuff like that. And I'm not a legal pro, so that's just what I could think of off the top of my head. I'm thinking that, sooner or later, the people of these small towns are going to get fed up like those of us in Michigan and vote themselves out of that mess. It might still take a while, and a lot of folks might end up injured as a result, but you cannot oppress people for too long without something blowing wide open.
So glad my daughter got out of Texas.
Christian Conservatives will send their kids to war to die. It is a bit contradicting to judge another
I wouldn't bet against the current Supreme Court upholding these laws.