Republican lawmakers push to make Texas' anti-abortion laws among the most restrictive in the nation

[TexasTowelie]

by Shannon Najmabadi, Texas Tribune


Republican lawmakers, buoyed by a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court and the trouncing of state-level Democrats in the November election, are pushing to reclaim Texas’ role as the vanguard among states restricting access to abortion this legislative session.

Legislators have promised to back a so-called “heartbeat bill” that would bar abortions before many women know they are pregnant. Anti-abortion advocates have urged them to challenge the Roe v. Wade decision that established the right to an abortion. And Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said at a “Texas Rally for Life” event in January that there is more “we must do to defend the unborn.”

With the GOP in control of state government and “a favorable backstop from the courts, it’s going to be a no-holds-barred approach for Republicans on abortion,” said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston.

They’re wasting no time.

On one of the first days of the session, a freshman lawmaker attempted to stop the House from naming bridges or streets without first voting to abolish abortion. The amendment failed, but was supported by more than 40 lawmakers, about half of the Republicans in the House.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/01/texas-abortion-laws-legislature/

[walkingman]

1. ignorant mf'ers

[VMA131Marine]

2. At what point do laws like this discourage businesses

from expanding or moving to states that enact them. These laws have a direct impact on their ability to hire female employees in particular. If large employers threatened to boycott or pull out of states that tried to pass restrictions on reproductive rights, maybe those states would back off.

[DBoon]

5. Anyone who is thinking about moving to Texas for work

Needs to think about what they do when they or a loved one need to terminate a pregnancy.

Is it worth the lower taxes and cost of living?

[Ziggysmom]

3. What a crock of shite!

If one of their daughters gets pregnant at 15 they are the first to make sure she gets an early abortion in extreme secrecy! I used to be a nurse and have seen more than enough hypocrite parents like that. Right to life to these Texans means control over other people and not themselves.

[muntrv]

4. The pro fetus crowd at work.