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DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY
The new Texas abortion law isn’t about abortion
It’s about controlling women
Extremist right-wing Christian men are in trouble, big trouble. They’re losing their grip on power and it shows. In a last-ditch effort to avoid the democracy they pretend to support, they are destroying every vestige of fairness, logic, and decency they possibly can — with one goal: to keep women and people of color in their place.
It started with The Big Lie. Then came the slew of voting rights bills that do nothing to promote voting or rights. Now we have an abortion law in Texas (with far-right Governors in other states vowing to follow suit) that doesn’t ban abortion, it simply makes it impossible for women to take control of their own reproductive health by limiting their choices to a time frame that is so narrow (six weeks) most women wouldn’t even know if they were pregnant yet.
And should they decide an abortion is their best choice after this narrow timeframe has passed, it will prevent them from acting on that choice for fear of sanctioned vigilante justice against anyone who assists them.
If Texans were concerned about abortion, they would support Planned Parenthood and family planning. Since Roe v. Wade was passed, and both Planned Parenthood and The Affordable Care…
