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

This law has no exception for rape, so even if the women say no to sex, well, the law still prevents them from making decisions about their own bodies.

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

So much this. Compulsory Vasectomies for every male of child insemination age. They are easily reversible when the man is ready to have a child and will completely put an end to unwanted pregnancies and therefore terminations. Pro life = pro vasectomy.

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

Which is such a privlige to have. It inherently makes you weak if youre not going to overcome it. Otherwise you dont need the pity. If the Go have sex incel thing worked then you wouldnt be such a hypocrite on how the world runs. Perversion of boys and girls. Im 100% thats what turns you on no doubt. Kinky f****r of a leftist. Ive heard of a bitter female complain about a father raping his 2 month old daughter. But i hear nothing about a baby boy having his penis sucked off my his very own BIOLOGICAL female mother. Whos supposed to nurture him. And she did it for money. And made those videos to pedophiles. Yeah females arent sweet at all. Yikes! I guess its what youve been needing huh? The truth to hit you so hard itll make your jaw open wide enough to eat your lies because youre stubborn. And you like to bathe in sadness to justify doing nothing. I dont even think you care for other females. Hmh. After all most females do hate each other. For example lesbians they hate each other LOL!

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

They do if it's their husband/boyfriend they pay for the kid or child support if they separate. If it's a rapist they go to jail and spend time there

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

Ah, yes, a state-wide Lysistrata! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata)

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

Well, Human women don't. The New Mexico Whiptail Lizard, however...

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If women would “control their own bodies” in the first place, maybe they wouldn’t offer themselves up so freely to an inseminator.

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Legitimate question, are fathers not held legally and financially responsible just as much as the mother in Texas? Not saying I support the anti-abortion laws, but for a deeply Christian state, it seems to make sense in general, when a woman has consensual, unprotected sex with a guy, she kinda knows what she's in for and shouldn't treat an abortion like a simple tooth removal

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

Well, for one - he'd have to just say "What, me? Naw, can't be my kid" and she'd have to have proof otherwise. So she'd have to have the child to get DNA-tests done just so she'd be able to get support for a child she might not have wanted in the first place. Catch 22. As with the "knowing what you're in for" - especially in the Christian-based states, sex-education in schools is being frowned on, so she (and, to be fair, he, too) might not actually know what she's in for. She might believe the myth that he can pull out in time, or that showering right after sex can flush the semen out or any other ridiculous belief that gets spread. Not to mention ... being a teenager is not exactly the time of your life you will remember as being super-responsible and aware of consequences to your actions. (Not even getting into the tooth-removal-analogy. I doubt most women who have abortions would treat it as a simple thing)

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"their own bodies" - but it isn't, is it. There's another human there. You've got 6 weeks, after that, you can't kill that baby. I think that's fair.

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

So it's YOUR choice? Or someone else's? Not her choice anymore, but someone else's...right...that is not logical or humane or righteous or whatever people that agree with this law think, it's pretty backaśśwards. Fetus has rights, woman has none? Absolutely not

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Women for the most part are consenting. Sorry folks sex is for reproduction not a recreational activity.

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

"For the most part." And what are you, twelve? Sex happens. This shouldn't surprise you. If it's only for procreation, why do condoms exist? Sex is an enjoyable activity for consenting adults. No one WANTS to have an abortion, but sometimes birth control fails. Sometimes rape happens. Sometimes you were miseducated on how bodies work and wind up accidentally pregnant. A pregancy irrevocably changes your body and can change the trajectory of your whole life. Abortion is legal. It's a medical procedure that's been around for centuries and is finally safe. Quit ignoring the complexities of all this just because the idea of recreational sex seems to make you uncomfortable.

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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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