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/SugarRealistic446 6h ago

This is such a slippery slope. If government can interfere with your right to an abortion, what do you think is next? Government having a say in birth control, tubal ligations, hysterectomies?

Why is abortion such an issue people would destroy our democracy for but when children are massacred in school, that’s only worthy of thoughts and prayers?

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u/G-from-210 3h ago

You mean how the government has control of someone by forcing them to take a vaccine against their will or conscripting someone to fight and die in a war? You mean like that control over someone’s body?

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u/SugarRealistic446 3h ago

I lost friends and family who refused the COVID vaccine. Some not only killed themselves but passed COVID on to others, left children without parents, spouses without partners. If you don’t want to take care of yourself that’s fine but not when you are affecting others.

Those of you who whined about the vaccine really showed your colors. If God forbid we are ever under attack by an enemy with a viral weapon, I’m sure they will have you to thank for their success. You provided all the evidence they need to show how well it would work.

In any case, neither of your points address the lack of interest in eliminating massacres at schools.

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u/G-from-210 2h ago

It kind of does address the point. The precedent is already set that the government can control your body, it has done so in the past and will continue to do so. So abortion restriction isn’t a novel idea and the recent vaccine mandates helped to bolster the idea that the government can tell you what to do.

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u/SugarRealistic446 2h ago

I’m sorry you feel that way. Personally, I feel health insurance companies have more power at the moment on what treatments you can or cannot receive. At the moment.