Apologies if this is not allowed, but if you are a person in Texas who needs access to reproductive healthcare or want to help those who do, here are some resources:
Resources for Texans seeking access to healthcare:
https://wrrap.org/about-wrrap/
If you need help getting an abortion:
these sites offer access to abortion pills, even in Texas. Please be safe and be aware of clinics (e.g. Crisis Pregnancy Centers) that give out dangerous misinformation on abortions and pregnancy.
If you want to give money to some pro-choice charities, try here:
https://fundtexaschoice.org/ - The Dallas-based nonprofit Fund Texas Choice assists Texas residents with lodging and transportation expenses to abortion clinics in and out of state. It also provides information on organizations that can help with funding the procedure.
https://www.laslibres.org/ - Las Libres is a Mexican feminist organization that supports women seeking abortions and control of their own bodies; this now includes those who contact them from the United States.
https://teafund.org/ - Texas Equal Access Fund provides funding to low-income people in the north, east, and Panhandle regions of Texas who can’t afford an abortion. It also offers emotional support through a confidential text line, support group, and virtual clinic companion program.
https://janesdueprocess.org/ - Jane’s Due Process helps young Texans navigate parental-consent laws and confidentially access abortion and birth control. It offers Texas teens and young people free legal support, one-on-one case management, and a text line for those needing information on birth control and family-planning services without parental involvement.
https://www.lilithfund.org/ - The Lilith Fund, an Austin-based nonprofit, provides direct financial assistance to Texans in central and southern regions of the state who need an abortion. It also offers an emotional-support hotline.
https://www.theafiyacenter.org/ - The Afiya Center, or TAC for short, is a reproductive-justice organization in North Texas that provides refuge, education, and other resources to Black women. The center has its own “economic enrichment campaign” focused on funding projects for women of color living with HIV/AIDS (and those at risk). It also supports programs that are providing abortion access in the state.
https://thebridgecollective.org/ - The Bridge Collective serves central Texans by offering transportation to abortion clinics for people within 100 miles of Austin. It also provides free reproductive-health resource kits to those who are within 30 miles of Austin. The kits include Plan B, pregnancy tests, condoms, and information on sexual and reproductive health.
https://avowtexas.org/ - Avow (which was previously NARAL Pro-Choice Texas) fights for abortion rights through community building, education, and political advocacy. The Avow Foundation funds research, public education, organizing, and more to educate Texans on the importance of abortion access.
More here: 20 Organizations Fighting the Texas Abortion Ban
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If you need to come to my area (Bay Area) from TX to get an abortion, I will let you crash on my sofa. My GF lives here too; she loves to cook for people. Hope you like Thai food, but she can make pasta if you don’t.
You are both beautiful and amazing people. Thank you. <3
In their minds, 26,000 future workers or prison slaves. So for them, it’s all going according to plan.
It’s working as intended for the forced-birth party. Not only are women in red states relegated to second-class citizens, but those states are going to have a population boom. Which means that they’ll have even MORE representation in the House come the next census.
Human suffering is considered to be mere collateral damage as the GOP continues its pursuit of unchecked power.
It also drives any one more progressive than a stone wheel out of the state meaning there’s just fewer democrats to vote against their dear leader
Sort of like gerrymandering but completely legal!
Texas hasn’t voted blue since 1976. It ain’t happening anyway.
Texas is very much a purple area. It could completely flip blue in certain areas, which is why you might have noted all the efforts to suppress the vote at the state level, such as throwing out Houston’s votes.
~26000 births isnt a lot though compared to the 375000 births that occur in Texas every year.
It’s about 7%. That is a lot.
The real question is, what is the overall population growth rate compared with before? I wonder how many people are leaving TX, or (more likely) deciding to not move to TX, compared with previous years.
In a school with 1400 kids, 100 of them are rape babies. Figure that’s a high school, with four grades. 350 kids per grade. 25 people in each grade is a rape baby.
That’s like an entire class room.
No matter how you conceptualise it it’s a whole fucking lot of rape babies.
System works as designed. Nobody should for a second think that this is some sort of unintentional side effect.
Some parts of the USA are really more than utterly disgusting. And we all know it’s not pro-life, it’s pro-cheaplabour.
V O T E !
Holy shit that’s a horrifying number. And this is just the pregnancies. I have no words other than FUCK TEXAS.
Having visited the place for extended periods of time I can confidently say Texas is a shithole. I don’t know why they think it’s so special.
Shithole country.
Shithole state.
We’re either a society or we’re not. The US is responsible for US atrocities.
Where does it end? Lol.
Earthlings are responsible for earthling atrocities!
Honestly I think nation states are a tool of division and delinquency for the powerful, sociopathic few that work against their own species, so yes we should be.
We are one species. We just act like we aren’t out of selfish crap hoarding. The idea that we’re not responsible for one another is killing the planet and us.
You are pre-born you good, you are out of the womb you fucked…
Thanks George Carlin.
Yeah it’s the George Carlin one but I didn’t remembered the exact words he used, but anyway…
RIP George Carlin 🙏🤞…
Sat next to some pro-life fucks who were stone-silent during his abortion material in the bible belt. How do you not know his branding before you come to the show? Made me very uncomfortable when I was laughing. I was like 19 yo at the time. If that happened now, I wouldn’t feel the least bit uncomfortable because I’m much more confident in my views.
TLDR: fuck off conservatives.
26,000 rapes in the last nine months? If that’s true, they should be focusing on that more than abortion.
I promise you, survivors have been saying this for years.
That’s a crazy amount. That’s nearly 3000 rapes a month. Or roughly 100 rapes per day. And that’s only those that resulted in pregnancy. Actually for a state the size of Texas maybe it’s not that surprising, sadly.
That is astronomically bad. I know why women hate men. They are making a bad rep for all men. Disgusting.
oh gawd, and crybaby man-children complain about girls rejecting them, when girls are just trying to stay safe 🤦♂️
I’m not crying about rejection. But thanks for playing miss interpreting sentences that can have alternative meanings. Next week you can read into a meme I post and think it’s about your childhood.
Oh my gosh. I’m sorry. My reply/comment was very badly written. It was not directed at you. I meant to talk about how, in general, some men, who are child-like, take rejection so badly when they don’t understand the dangers women deal with when it comes to dating or other social interactions with men.
Again, I apologize. I should have looked over what I wrote before posting it.
I just want to see the two Benders make up.
And that’s just those that got reported.
I was assured by Governor Abbott that there wouldn’t be rapes because those are illegal.
There aren’t people illegally crossing the border, either. Oh wait… did no one think to throw that in his face at the time?
This is what they wanted, right? Punish the women and punish children because a woman got raped?
“But the poor man has to either go to jail, or pay child support! It sucks for him, too!”
So… something that’s bad for everyone (except for the rich, who can get safe abortions out of state in secret). Sounds like what the Republicans want!
And cheap uneducated stressed out labor
That’s a fuckload of rape considering how small the window to actually get pregnant is.
Everything’s bigger in texas.
Except brain
What the fuck?
Why is there so much rape in Texas.
We’re on the precipice of rape being legalized in Texas.
