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Texas Passed A Harsh Anti-Abortion Law. Now, We Have Proof It’s Hurting Women.
A new report released by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project — a research group based at the University of Texas at Austin that’s been tracking the state’s reproductive health policy over the past four years — finds that recent clinic shutdowns have greatly limited access to timely abortions statewide. In some cases, women had to wait nearly a month to be seen. In others, clinics had to turn women away, since they had no available appointment slots open.
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I find it highly ironic that the state with the harshest anti-abortion legislation is also the state with the highest number of executions per year. These people aren't pro life, otherwise they'd abolish the death penalty, instate gun control measures, and dramatically increase social service spending to be sure that all lives are protected.
Hence why I've become a massive fan of the term "pro-birth".
Another way of phrasing this that I've found to be accurate would be "forced birth."
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I think it was on The Daily Show .. I heard the best explanation of the Right Wing view on "life"...
"They look at life like a comic book.. in the wrapper it is priceless, but once unwrapped, it's worthless"
or something to that effect...
I thought it was a pretty spot on comment.