https://www.yahoo.com/news/highways-next-antiabortion-target-one-145216163.html


"Antiabortion advocates behind the measure are targeting regions along interstates and in areas with airports, with the goal of blocking off the main arteries out of Texas and keeping pregnant women hemmed within the confines of their antiabortion state. These provisions have already passed in two counties and two cities, creating legal risk for those traveling on major highways including Interstate 20 and Route 84, which head toward New Mexico, where abortion remains legal and new clinics have opened to accommodate Texas women. Several more jurisdictions are expected to vote on the measure in the coming weeks"

So will there be forced pignasty tests at rest stops if you look to be under the age of 50 and on a road trip? How will they know who is knocked up and who isn't?
I think women will have to get pregnancy tests in another state and not come back to Texas until after the clinic appointment which will be really expensive or after an abortion out of state, the woman in question may be forced to just not re-enter the state and move somehow to avoid a prison sentence which can be really difficult. Some decent father on Collapse said he would not allow his daughter to step foot in that place. These people will go further against women then they do in Saudi Arabia. I think we will soon be hearing about voting rights gone and the driver's licence after that.

From the party that whines "muh freedoms!"

This is clearly a violation of constitutional rights, but with the clowns occupying the supreme court, I don't know how anyone can claim that the rule of law prevails.

Then I'm sure something will crop up about how the birth rates drop because women are straight up refusing to have sex, or there will be a sharp increase in the number of babies found in dumpsters or in the woods or thrown in alleys, prompting news coverage about the "abandoned baby epidemic" and lawmakers wondering how something so horrible could happen. If there are safe havens in Texass, they will be overwhelmed.

How would they even know if a woman is traveling for the purpose of abortion? Just assume anyone with a vagina is heading to an out-of-state Planned Parenthood? Will they give every woman a pee test? Do they realize that it's very easy to have a false negative, either due to not being pregnant, being too early in the pregnancy, or even being very late into the pregnancy? Yes, apparently this is a thing - pregnancy pee sticks can read negative if the woman has too much pregnancy hormone in her body.

And what is to stop female passengers from simply dressing like men? Ball cap with hair tucked in, hoodie, sweatpants, a face mask because that's normal to do still, and nobody would know you're a woman. Pretending to be mute so they don't have to reveal their feminine voices, maybe? Will there be strip searches to look for boobs and vaginas? Who is to say anyone preventing a woman from leaving the state for any reason won't get shot? People shoot other people for FAR less. Believe me, people WILL find ways around these so-called laws.

What if people offer to fly women across state lines, then? There are probably people with pilot's licenses and small aircraft who could completely ignore the highway. Will these pro-lifers shoot down these planes too? What about buses? Will buses be pulled over and all the women and girls aboard be given pregnancy tests? What if they refuse?

The term "trafficking" implies that these women are being dragged kicking and screaming to clinics to undergo abortions against their will. That is not the case - these women are fully voluntarily making this choice. There is no "trafficking" involved. Maybe these people banning highway travel to women should learn how to use a dictionary before they go throwing around big scary words.

When I was in college there were lots of Texasshats who left their state to go to my school in my state. Lots of them would complain all the time about how much better in every way/more progressive Texass was. So, I guess social skills, class and manners weren't a priority in Texass.

I think it is hilarious that Texass is the state that is the butt of jokes when it comes to women's rights. Bet they aren't schlepping over to my former state bragging about how much more progressive they are now. It is bad enough they have dry counties. Texass, the Saudi Arabia of the USA. Women should make a mass exodus. The remaining men could seek out cattle. Bless their hearts.

Good luck with this. Are they going to blockade the interstates in those counties and force every car with a woman in it to take a pregnancy test?

Most abortions happen in the first trimester, when the pregnancy isn't showing yet. As long as you stay within the speed limit and don't have broken taillights or other such thing, cops will be hard pressed to stop you.

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From the party that whines "muh freedoms!"

Freedoms aren't for those cursed with a uterus.

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kittehpeoples
From the party that whines "muh freedoms!"

Most of these "conservatives" and other groups who like to whine about "freedom" usually mean "freedom is for me but not for thee."

"Welcome to Gilead. The crappiest place on earth." They should replace the "welcome to Texas" sign with that to at least serve as a warning to others.

Texas will soon have to build a new prison for women with its own maternity ward if it keeps this up. At that point, they may well let women leave Texas.