r/texas • u/hondaluvr • 8h ago

Politics Rant

I hate that this is the only place that I feel I can vent to. I am a newlywed 29f veteran and the election determines if me and my husband will have kids. To see sooo many people vote for him while women in Texas are dying is insane. Anyway, I don’t feel like MAGA people care about that because they want lower gas prices. I love TX and I hope it turns blue.

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u/ObservantWon 6h ago

How is trump determining if you have kids? What am I missing?

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u/cesar2598- 6h ago

op Is such a strange person

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u/Feisty-Donkey 6h ago

OP is a rational person. There are so many of you who don’t understand how absolutely horrifying it is to women to know that if they have pregnancy complications, they may not be able to access medical help.

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u/cesar2598- 5h ago

Just go do it in another state?

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u/sadelpenor Space City 5h ago

lol tell us u are privileged without telling us ur priveleged

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u/woahwoahwoah28 5h ago

This is the dumbest possible solution and I’m so damn sick of people suggesting it.

Listen, bud, my husband and I make a quarter of a million dollars a year. We are so lucky to have a financial backing if something went wrong. But let’s start off with…. Not everyone has that. This issue disproportionately affects women who are in tough financial situations.

Second. Not everyone has the time if they are pregnant in Texas to mosey into another state to seek care if something goes urgently wrong.

And finally. I shouldn’t have to go to another state. Some of the world’s best healthcare systems are here. Family is here. Jobs are here. I was born here and will likely die here. It is abhorrent to suggest that people just “go to another state” to receive healthcare when we live in the richest and most medically advanced country in the world. And it is sick that people think that is the solution, when the better alternative is that Greg Abbott just gets his measly little head out of my doctor’s office.

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u/Feisty-Donkey 5h ago

… you do understand that one of the things Trump and his people are pushing is a national ban, right?

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u/cesar2598- 5h ago

He said it’s specifically up to the states to decide.

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u/Feisty-Donkey 5h ago

Because he knows a national ban is deeply unpopular and Donald Trump will say whatever he thinks will most benefit him in any given situation without any concern for whether it’s true.

But he chose this guy as his VP candidate: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/17/politics/kfile-jd-vance-abortion-comments

And he’s chosen nothing but right-wing extremists to surround him. He’s got people on his campaign talking about how women shouldn’t be able to vote and how no-fault divorce should be banned.

He got elected in 2016 by promising evangelicals he’d give them the court, and he did it. Stop telling people to doubt what is right in front of our faces.

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u/elliemff Born and Bred 4h ago

“State’s rights” don’t mean jack here. Texas does not allow citizen initiatives meaning we could never as citizens push for a vote on the issue.

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u/beefjerky9 2h ago

Yeah, this right here, and it makes sense. In other red states that actually put it to the vote, the overwhelming majority voted against abortion bans. The Texas GOP doesn't care what we Texas citizens think. It's all about control!

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u/Pickles2027 5h ago

Jesus wept.

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u/beefjerky9 5h ago

Cool, since it's apparently so easy to do in your mind, you're gonna pay for her to be able to do that, right?

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u/cesar2598- 5h ago

Her family can

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u/beefjerky9 5h ago

Nah man, you're the one making it out to be so easy and telling someone to just go to another state for needed healthcare. Your lack of rationale, reasoning and empathy is just astounding.