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With Gilberto Hinojosa on the way out, make sure to reach out to your State Democratic Executive Committee representatives to voice who/what you want to see prioritized in terms of leadership going forward. There should be two representatives per congressional district!

You can see who your representative is here: https://www.texasdemocrats.org/executive-committee

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“Hey Texas Children’s Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine this doctor is putting your Medicaid & Medicare funding at risk,” Abbott wrote on X, sharing a link to an Express-News article that reports on Pastor’s video.

“ou [sic] better think twice & have crystal clear records,” he added. “There will be consequences for failing to follow the law in the Order.”

This is Greg Abbott’s post on Elon’s old bird app, FYI for everyone who has left it.

Not only does our governor have terrible ideas about medicine, he also can’t spell. Either that, or he can’t be bothered to hire someone who does know how to use the English language without difficulties.

This law is very antiquated, and is obviously useless now. Other bible belt states no longer do such things. Why the heck can't we? When I googled the reasoning it said this

"Buying beer on Sunday is generally not considered a violation of separation of church and state because while Sunday is often associated with religious observance, laws restricting Sunday activities are typically upheld by courts as a secular measure aimed at providing a universal day of rest for everyone, not specifically promoting one religion over another; this is often referred to as a "blue law" with a primary focus on providing a day for leisure and family time, not enforcing religious practice. "

Ok this is basically making up a reason and sugar coating it. (This is not an attempt to demean any religion) If there is a day to enforce this law it should be a monday. In this instance we know most people work on these days. The roads are far more crowded. So if this law was enforced on a monday it might make the roads safer slightly. Sunday is an off day for most and the roads are alot more barren. This makes it a great day to buy liquor for people. So this only draws one conclusion for me. Church is the reason it is enforced. Like a don't ask and don't tell scenario. This is obviously a violation of our first amendment.

As the title suggests I’m a little lost on the abortion ban in Texas cause I swear I haven’t found any solid answers anywhere in terms of 1. If a women orders abortion pills online how does Texas enforce it (if they can at all since I’ve seen some recent updates of Texas politicians trying to combat mail in abortion pills) are they just trying to prosecute doctors but not the people buying the pills and are the people safe to still buy the pills?? 2. one is how crazy it is that doctors are afraid to do suction D&C for miscarriages or is that just misinformation. 3. If the mail in abortion pill started to get regulated would they go after people who previously purchased or is that just impossible

EDIT: I have another question 4. If someone did get an abortion with the pill from either out of state or mail in then had complications days later and went to the doctor for treatment and got treated (life is in danger in this situation) would HIPPA protect the patients privacy or would the abortion have to be reported even if it was out of state?? And isn’t the mail in abortion pills protected federally and that’s why Texas is trying to make them a schedule 2 drug to be able to restrict access to it?? Just general curiosity cause this all just seems so confusing or I’m just dumb. Any knowledge is appreciated thank you.

Feel free to use this thread to share what you are thankful for this Holiday season.

Current Texas law forces doctors to choose the rights of an undocumented non-citizen fetus over the right to life and self-defense of citizen mothers.

Roe v Wade fell 5 years ago and it's not coming back. The abortion as healthcare argument has failed and is actively getting women hurt and killed today. Instead, we should look for other rights that abortion falls under that have actual court precedents. The healthcare argument will not gain any traction over the next 4 years.

If a woman were sitting in a chair in a doctor's office being attacked by a person outside of her, a doctor protecting her from the attack is clearly acting in self-defense. Under the castle doctrine, a father protecting his son from an attacker within their home, office, or legally occupied space is still considered self-defense even though the attacker was not attacking the father. The relationship between family doesn't matter, it's just for example. Why is the same standard not applied to a person attacking her from inside?

It's a shame that Kate Cox had to travel out of Texas, the State of Self-Defense, in order to exercise her right to self-defense to kill a person attacking her.

Currently, the State of Texas pre-empts doctor's and pregnant mother's rights to self-defense with a law that makes it impossible for a doctor to know with their best possible judgement if aborting a fetus will be legal or not. That's precisely the intent of the law, but can you imagine if we held cops to the same standard of self-defense? I'm pretty sure not questioning cop's decisions "in the moment" is a huge Republican talking point. Why not doctors?

If you had to defend abortion in court knowing it was simultaneously healthcare and self-defense, but that there are no supporting court cases for rights to healthcare and a plethora for rights to self-defense, what would you choose?

We will never have Roe v Wade back. Dems lost it, couldn't get it back under Biden, and now there will likely be a national abortion ban. I hear we can't go with self-defense because it's not as good as Roe, but currently we have 0% of Roe and getting 50% of it back or more seems like a good idea for the women who will die otherwise.

If, in the end, the Supreme Court says you don't have a right to self-defense (since it's not listed in the Constitution), I want to see what the Republicans say about the 2nd Amendment in that regard.