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Pro-Life? Schmo-Life? Let’s call the whole thing off!
Sounds like a lot men there in Texas aren’t listening to the women, in their own party. Crazy innit?
The cruelty is the point.
No, they heard “Obamacare,” and that was enough for them.
On the one hand, “Medicaid is the most comprehensive federal- and state-funded health coverage offered to pregnant people and new parents.”
However, to the wingnuts, it’s just “a buzzword for Obamacare.”
So there you are.
It’s never been about “life.” It’s always been about clawing back women’s rights; keeping them barefoot, pregnant and locked in the kitchen.
Governors like Abbott are perfecting the performative governance model, a pretense at effective governance which includes celebrating cutbacks as if they were advances.
Rather reminiscent of decreasing candy bar size while labeling it “giant,” except it immiserates and kills.
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`Similarly, the notion of picking "a side between the baby or the mother" is a wholly false construct in many medical emergencies like ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Fetus is not viable, denying treatment is matricide. https://t.co/8Esp5B0tTs
— Jonathan M. Metzl (@JonathanMetzl) July 18, 2022
Bottom line–Republicans want more white women to have white babies.
Just like Communist Romania decreed that every fertile woman had to have lots of babies.
Remember how that turned out for one Nicolae Ceaușescu?
But, but we here in Texas have set up our own program! Well yeah it’s small, not available in a lot of areas, and service providers aren’t rushing to join, but WE HAVE OUR OWN PROGRAM, damnit!
I love my insurance from the Affordable Care Act, which is NOT OBAMACARE! (told to me at the dog park by several not-stupid people).
I’m not going to go and try and chase down the story, but wasn’t there someone from the US that was detained in Ukraine during the start of the war who said he was there to take a bunch of Ukrainian kids out of the country?
What ever happened in that story. I mean here’s a bunch of white, close to being European kids, just sitting here in a country with a war heating up. It’s the Christian thing to do to offer to take the kids away from that, isn’t it?
So what you’re saying is that the dogs at the dog park are smarter than the people who told you that their insurance from the ACA is definitely not Obamacare?
I think in this case it is Patrick that is taking the lead on the legislative front. Though I’m sure that Greg is fine with Dan Patrick’s means and methods.
For example, single parents with one child must earn $196 or less a month
I don’t understand how this is even possible.
The baby’s out so what’s the problem? The woman has served her role as vessel for the unborn. Now she can go back to being just another woman of no importance to the men overseeing her place in society.
And in what world does a $196 cap on income for a mother and one child to qualify for Medicaid make sense? With that amount of money coming in a person would need treatment for malnutrition and exposure because they sure as hell couldn’t afford adequate food and shelter.
Ignoring the fact the greatest mortality threat to women is immediately after delivery, and a year past delivery.
Without looking it up I’m going to guess that there are more women in the Texas House, from either party, than in the Texas Senate. Which to me means that when women talk to each other across party lines, then drag the men along, they get shit done.
So if women want to survive they need to get more women in the Texas Senate.
Yeah I’d like to see where/when they determined this floor on earnings.
Yes, but remember that no one hates women more than Republican women.
These people are gold-plated hypocrites. They are very, very concerned about the life of a fetus, but once the baby is born? You’re on your own…we don’t want none of that socialism here in the great state of Texas! Morons…
Aren’t the churches stepping in to help the truly needy?
Especially I’m looking at YOU, J0el 0$teen! You with the $10 million dollar Pulpit Pimp Palace!
Aren’t YOU leading the way to help mothers and their newborns?