I understand what you are going for, but this is an exceptionally privileged stance to take. If this law were passed it would take years for that kind of social and economic backlash to occur, and in that amount of time women in Texas would die. Maybe not from the death penalty, but definitely from illegally performed abortions. “If they pass this, they’ll be sorry” always has huge collateral damage, and in the end the people you want to hurt are rarely even touched.
To that point, I don’t think there would be any deafening outcry or corporate blow back within the state. The most vulnerable communities to be hurt by these kinds of laws are poor women of color, and our country has a really shitty history of supporting and rallying behind that group.
I still find it unfathomable why people feel “so religious and oh so Christian” being anti-abortion. Why are women’s bodies even a tope for religious or political agendas? Neither of the two group provide women with care, understanding and definitely not compassion.
Counter point? The state of Vermont passed an abortion bill stating the decision(s) is between a woman and a medical doctor. Seems appropriate, right?
Since the beginning of the year, 14 states have passed, introduced, or moved forward legislation that would ban abortions performed after about six weeks of pregnancy. (Conservatives call them “heartbeat bills,” because fetal pole cardiac activity usually shows up on a vaginal ultrasound around six weeks’ gestation.) Abortion bans this extreme—many people don’t even know they’re pregnant at such an early stage—are both recent and rare. Ohio introduced the first six-week ban in 2011, though it didn’t pass. Since then, until this year, only two states had succeeded in passing such a ban: North Dakota in 2013 and Iowa in 2018. Courts struck them both down, ruling that Supreme Court precedent protects abortion rights up until the point of fetal viability, around 24 weeks’ gestation.
But in the past three months, the governors of Kentucky, Mississippi, and (eight years after its inaugural effort failed to pass) Ohio have all signed six-week abortion bans into law. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signaled his support for one recently passed by the Georgia Legislature. Similar bills are also percolating through the legislatures of Missouri and Tennessee, and they’ve been introduced in eight other states. Abortion rights advocates say 2019 has seen a two-thirds increase in the number of six-week bans introduced compared with this time last year.
