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People who live in democratic countries pride themselves in having freedoms and rights, like the freedom of speech, the freedom of choosing their own religion, the right to education or the right to privacy. And most of them have the right to do what they want with their own bodies.

Sadly, it has to be said that this includes most but not all of them, because in some of them, such a decision like having or not having a child is made by the government and not the woman who is the one who will bear the child.

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The internet is going crazy right now because Texas has passed a bill that came into effect on September 1st which states that a pregnancy cannot be terminated after the fetus is 6 weeks old.

From September 1st all abortions had after six weeks of pregnancy became illegal. This law was first introduced by Governor Greg Abbott in May, and it was greeted with resistance. However, after months of battles, the Supreme Court ignored the emergency requests to stop the law before it had to be enforced. 

This is the most restrictive abortion law in the country. And it conflicts with Supreme Court who banned states from making abortion illegal when the fetus is about between 22 and 24 weeks old.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every Republican: "Well it's my freedom to dictate what happens in women's bodies. And I'm prepared to invalidate the constitution and every amendment which could keep me from doing that. By the way, that's how I also think about voters rights for minorities. "

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The Texas Senate Bill 8, which is also known as The Heartbeat Act, makes abortions when the fetus has a heartbeat to be illegal. An unborn child starts to have a detectable heartbeat around the 6 week mark. Which is when women rarely know they are pregnant.

Also, the bill defines that the first day of a pregnancy is calculated from the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period, because it is impossible to confirm the day of the actual conception so it means that women have even less time to find out they are pregnant.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's fackin sick. Whoever voted this in should have to stand in front of a firing squad of rape victims. See how much they agree with it then.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Extremists are discussing the possibilities of applying Taliban tactics to the USA. Would be a good thing for Texas, Sharia law doesn't ban abortions.

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A lot of women who don’t want to get pregnant intentionally don’t usually do pregnancy tests, so the chances of them noticing they are pregnant before the 6 weeks are low. We have to keep in mind that pregnancy tests also can show a false-negative so even that is not a guarantee. Going to the doctors to do bloodwork constantly only just to be safe that you are really not pregnant isn’t reasonable too.

A late period is also not a definite indication of pregnancy too because there are women who have them irregularly or don’t track them at all. The sign that most women take notice of is the feeling of sickness out of nowhere. But that shows up only at about the sixth week when it can already be too late to make an abortion in Texas.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and it would be even worse if they had to shut down the program due to no longer being able to filter what's real and what isn't, wouldn't it be? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The new Texas Anti-Abortion law authorizes anyone in the country to file a lawsuit against any abortion provider, or anyone who helps someone get an abortion, and seek a penalty of that person of at least $10,000 per abortion. Which does sound like the start of Nazi Germany when people were encouraged to snitch on family, friends and neighbors if they dared to doubt the Führer.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is great! It's foetus logic I believe so "we must fight for foetuses!" but when comes to helping children they are "not my child not my problem"...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think women in Texas should just demand a law that all men be required to have a vasectomy. When they are mature and ready to have children, their vasectomy can be reversed.

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What is more, private individuals may sue any women who had an abortion and any abortion provider and doctors or just anybody involved in the process and get up to $10,000 as a reward. There are even pages where you can tip anonymously about people who are related to this affair now turned illegal. 

People on the internet could not hold their mouths and were enraged that no actions were taken against this law, that the media is not talking about it more and were just simply baffled by the politicians who came up with this law. They were calling the $10,000 compensation a bounty and were predicting that it would cause chaos.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps Texan women should go on strike and deny men sex until this law is from the table.

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Many of them even compared this situation with the crisis that happened in Afghanistan, tweeting with the hashtags #American Taliban and #TexasTaliban. They were making fun of the people who were so concerned about the rights of Afghan women, but the rights of women in Texas seem less important.

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A very heated argument was that the freedom to not wear a mask is more valued than the freedom of having a choice in women’s own bodies that will have long-term consequences. People were also triggered because on the same day that the Heartbeat Act took effect, another law came into force, letting Texans above the age of 21 who legally own guns, carry them in public without a license.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not about sanctity of life, it never was. It's about controlling women and returning to them good ol' days when women knew their place and slaves were cheap.

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Although the internet really exploded with frustrated people’s reactions, there were a lot of them who were defending the bill, saying that abortions are straight up murders and they shouldn’t be allowed. Others were coming with the Christianity argument that it’s God’s will that a woman got pregnant and she shouldn’t change that.

But what are your thoughts? Have you heard about the Heartbeat Act and what was your reaction? Do you agree with people in this list or would you say they are overreacting? We would be curious to know so sound your opinions in the comments.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Error, Sharia law is much more humane in matters of abortion. With a strong and clear reason, permissibility becomes more lenient. Such cases include forced pregnancy (caused by rape), reasons of health and other pressing reasons.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most countries go forward in time, some countries go backwards.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can sue them for assisting in transporting women out of state. None of the legislators are poor

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marvellous idea. Castrate every guy who supported this bill, so they can't procreate.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

RIGHT. I finally understand. Thank you ImSpeaking13. I get it now! Texas needs more babies to make up for all the people they are killing from the Delta Veriant! That's why women have bounties on their heads for not want ing a kid!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Trying? I think they've pretty much succeeded. Still at the rate they also seem to be trying to kill off their voters thanks to the anti vaxx, anti mask rhetoric, pretty soon they'll be unelectable (not soon enough I realise)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is ridiculous, most women don't have regular periods so going a month or so without a period how the actual f**k are they supposed to know if pregnancy is not suspected?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. And these legislators doing their best to ban it know full well that the law will never apply to their families. They need to curry favor with the religious conservative wing of the party. If they have to sell out poor people to do it, oh well.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

mandatory vasectomies than can only be reversed when they prove themselves of being sufficiently capable and responsible to support another life

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

F*** Ben “Hysterical” Sasse: https://www.bustle.com/p/ben-sasses-hysteria-comment-at-brett-kavanaughs-hearing-is-being-ripped-apart-on-twitter-11495038

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Biden doesn't want to expand the SCOTUS because he understands it would set a dangerous precedent. If the Democrats can do it, so can the Republicans.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When were we EVER at the point that women had control over their own bodies?!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The real question is, have women ever actually been allowed to decide what to do with their bodies? Most women have two choices, abstain from sex and get labeled a "prude who is probably too ugly to get a real man anyway" or embrace sexuality and be labeled a "loose woman who deserved what she was asking for". Its almost as if older, wealthy, predominantly white men can tell the rest of us what we are allowed to do in this supposedly free country.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When have we not?? Provide for me an example in history when women have been autonomous and financially, socially equal with men. We think so much has changed, and superficially, it can appear that way. But when a man in power is denigrated it's with his character and his history. When he's praised it's for his accomplishments or his actions. When it happens to a woman, it's her sex, her looks, and her appeal to men that the remarks of praise and condemnation are made.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Believe it or not, women in Ancient Egypt were pretty equal to men. Only a few were pharaohs (female pharaohs were frowned upon), and their first priority was reproduction, however, they could have jobs, and even (ironically) have abortions. It seems as though instead of progress we are just moving backwards. People back then would've killed for a vaccine, yet now dummies deny them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you let church and government be a single entity. France separated the powers 200 years ago.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It has always been like that. Even when women were 'given the Right' to control birth (50 years ago), States put in laws that hindered them. It has always been like this. Always!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When were we not at that point? Only a very short time in a few places has that ever even been close to being a thing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When HAVEN'T they? It wasn't that long ago you needed your husband's permission to open a checking account. (I've always wondered what single women did. Did they have to have their Father's permission. What if he was dead?) AND WHY - for f*ck's sake do men get to even have a voice on this issue? Women don't get to vote on whether you should be given Viagra, but you can deny me the right to affordable contraceptives. This country is so f*cked up. Trump was just the beginning.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pre 1950's did it and Texas has manages to turn back to clock to 1950 and have it run backwards for ever more.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Started with Saul of Tarsus (alleged 'Saint' Paul) - persecutor of Jesus and known misogynist.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh , maybe you should have asked that question like 3000 years ago, it's a bit late to wonder now.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The evolution of sexual reproduction. Ask a male preying mantis or a female mallard duck what they think about their reproductive rights. Sexual dimorphism often results in one sex being physically dominant over the other. Male humans ended up being the dominant one in primates for hundreds of thousands of years. That's how Genghis Khan raped his way across Eurasia so 1 in 200 men are descended from him. Each development in civilization has permitted physical strength to become less important so equality should be standard. It doesn't matter how hard you can throw a rock when someone can bomb you from 35,000 feet or invent the COVID vaccine to save only the people who do what you say by taking it. However, there are still lizard-brained cavemen who haven't learned what civilization entails.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is not true for most primates and not for humans and other human species. Female chimpanzees have a crucial importance in the hierarchy, the high ranking males are there because of their support and their male children inherit their ranking. Female bonobos are the dominant in the group. All morphological evidence (like small canines and reduced sexual dimorphism) proves that early humans were more and more egalitarian with the generations/species. Studies done in neanderthals and sapiens show that women held a lot of power, as shamans, artisans, artists and even huntresses.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know about that but too bad it isn't on their big mouths

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How did we get to the point of promoting the murder of innocent babies, whose hearts are beating, in the name of “women’s rights”

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So apparently there are no female legislators in Texas?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The majority of Texas legislators are not women, and one needs a majority to win a vote. PS Texas gave us certified badass legislator Wendy Davis: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/25/five-years-after-wendy-davis-filibuster-abortion-clinics/

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