25 Furious Reactions To Archaic Abortion Restrictions In Texas

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September 1, 2021, 8:27 am

Texas has officially passed a law banning abortion once a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected, which means as early as six weeks after conception, and pro-choice advocates are outraged.

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The law was passed by Governor Greg Abbott back in May, but has undergone contentious battles in the months since. Civil rights groups fought the ban tooth and nail, knowing full well that most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at six weeks along, making this a deeply effective ban on abortion. But they lost.

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Forget Roe v. Wade, apparently. And forget Texans having a voice in the matter. The Supreme Court opted to shut up and just let Abbott ban women’s rights to their own bodies because it’s what he and his fellow Republicans in power want. 

And in a particularly vicious twist, the law also allows for any private citizens to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion, in effect an abortion bounty, from doctors to people simply offering rides to the clinic.

Additionally upsetting to many is that this law went into effect on Wednesday, the same day that legislature in Texas also started allowing for anyone 21 and over to carry guns without a license. So women’s rights are being rolled back at the exact same time as more is being done to make people feel unsafe.

All of this is leaving people concerned about the future — not just for Texans, but for the entirety of the United States — and they’re taking to Twitter to express as much.

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$10,000 ‘abortion bounties’ are now legal in Texas.

This is reproductive terrorism.

— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) September 1, 2021

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The “keep your mandates away from my body” anti-vaccine crowd is going to be devastated when they find out about the Texas heartbeat bill.

— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) September 1, 2021

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Bounties on the heads of abortion patients.

Permitless concealed carry of guns.

Voters of color jumping through hoops to vote.

A power grid that leaves millions in the dark.

Texas Republicans are trying to take our state back to the dark ages. We must keep fighting back.

— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) September 1, 2021

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Looking forward to the shift from “relax, they’re not going to gut abortion” to “relax, they only gutted abortion in Texas”

— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) September 1, 2021

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Super curious over whether all those warmongers who were suddenly deeply invested in women’s rights last week will have anything to say about texas today

— Kaitlyn Greenidge (@surlybassey) September 1, 2021

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SB8 becomes law tomorrow in Texas, banning abortion before many women know they’re pregnant.

HB1280 creates felonies for doctors, in case Roe v Wade is overturned.

SB4 in the special session, goes even further.

And people still think wearing a mask infringes on their rights?

— Lina Hidalgo (@LinaHidalgoTX) September 1, 2021

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Name your fetus “Voting Rights” and Texas will have no problem letting you abort it

— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) September 1, 2021

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So are we also evacuating Americans from Texas? You know, since the Taliban took over.

— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) September 1, 2021

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9.

Welcome to the age of American daughters born with or without their mother’s consent and with fewer rights than their grandmothers once had.

— feminist next door (@emrazz) September 1, 2021

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Brett Kavanaugh, a sexual predator, who was appointed to SCOTUS by Donald Trump, a sexual predator, gets to make decisions about what women can and can’t do with their bodies.

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 1, 2021

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*First Published: September 1, 2021, 8:27 am