They're going to do this for gender affirming care next, just watch
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I'd be amazed if they haven't already
My sister has the option of offices to work for in her next rotation. She'd been planning to move back to Houston to live near her family. However, she recently changed her mind, explicitly because - and I quote - "I want to have more children, and I can't do that safely in Texas".
That's the real ultimate consequence of this shit.
The same people think that public transit and walkable city design are literally 1984 because the government will use them to control where you can go.
I still firmly stand behind my policy proposal that all rugged individualists be beaten to death with a stick
They probably love this
get ready for a 6-3 reinterpretation of the commerce clause, baybee
In North Korea, getting healthcare is illegal, and if you're on a highway but headed in the direction of healthcare, they throw you in jail
mm smell that freedom, thank god we don't ban shit like AUTHORITARIAN CHINA
Once again, I think the CIA should be arming women like the Mujahadeen in the 80s.
sick diseased parody land Texas passes new law so stupid it bends spacetime
How do you even enforce this law? Like, I know shit like this is selectively applied, but even then, like, this would be so difficult to apply. Unless they're just going to ban pregnant people in general from driving?
One must imagine this works like the "Are you a terrorist" immigration question in the US where it's just there to punish you more severely after you got caught by whatever nightmare texas law allows someone to collect bounties by kidnapping women from abortion clinics or something
Yes, it will 100% be used to retroactively punish women, I doubt they set up blockades scanning for pregnant people.
"Pregnant women may only enter cars when it is driven by a husband or direct male relative."
I don’t like this Lathe
They find out who had an abortion and then "build a case" backwards from there. Like slapping using a computer to commit a crime. Like who doesn't use a computer to do basic tasks in society. But it's just a punishment multiplier.
How could it hold up in court who knows, but until that's challenged those people remain in jail.
Texas women prohibited from leaving the house without a male relative, whether pregnant or not.
It's partially a chilling effect thing, partially a threat, and partially the state has very invasive surveillance.
they're just going to ban pregnant people in general from driving?
No. No. Your 
Lathe access is cut off!
station officers outside of abortion clinics in neighboring states looking for TX plates and have them phone APBs home
That still doesn’t prove they used the highway to get there.
you'd catch them using the highway to get back
Yeah, it would be so difficult to apply in a fair and reasonable way. Who knows what's next? All suspected uterus-havers on house arrest in case they get pregnant? Shit's bad. They're also building a wall across the entire US-Mexico border. It's not just to keep immigrants out, it's to keep capital's "breeding stock" in trapped in the united states. Bad things are happening and it's going to get worse.
How do you even enforce this law?
Well on its own you probably can't but a couple more laws, ip address warrants and/or tech advancement could make this very scary for women very quickly, and that's not even thinking hard on it
I wouldn't want to have an abortion appointment in the middle of a highway anyway!
Too noisy
back alley abortions
highway abortions
Levity aside, fuck Texas.
i know i shouldn't use reddit as a serious heuristic but its easier than turning on cable news for an hour, but lately it seems like all the texas border shit & reproductive rights stuff is all being quietly swept under the rug for house speaker circuses & trump prosecution circuses.
i mean this article isn't even on the front page of the paper that published it. it really feels like there's a concerted redirection from the things the dems are willing to go along with domestically (that their constituents have voted to oppose) to dog-and-pony shows in DC that don't materially change anything
I tell ya the lathe emote at phone resolution really looks like Vince Gilligan putting a burger king crown on Will Ferrell
Eventually the GOP justices on the supreme court will issue a "surprising" ruling that somehow makes this sort of clearly unconstitutional stuff legal.
Soon: "Texas bans women from driving within 100 miles of an abortion clinic"
Oh America, whatever crazy thing will you think up next?
Please don't read that as a rhetorical question asked jovially.
Serious question: what will Texas do once it drives away most of its residents? Will it just become an empty husk like West Virginia?
The ones who can afford to leave aren't nearly as affected by this as the ones who can't, unfortunately.
An extremely enforcible law that I'm sure more abortion friendly states will co operate with.
It’s trite to compare real life misogyny to The Handmaid’s Tale but what the fuck?
What.
They're clearly doing this to drain funds from abortion lawyers