Ladies and gentlemen: I give you the party of "small governemt".... who apparently feel we're all so incapable of managing our affairs that we need a court appointed magistrate to weigh in on if we should get life-saving medical care...
(* golfclap *)
The answer to this is people can’t move because they’re tied to their fucking job living paycheck to paycheck.
How can you move out when you have a mortgage and you need to sell your house to move? What about your family? Does anyone realize how difficult it is to move your entire family somewhere else?
A real states rights person would support an initiative where every ten years there's a jubilee where you can get reimbursed to move to a better state. That would finally start to allow the "vote with your feet" thing to give the "laboratories of democracy" the feedback they need.
I can't fathom how my relatives under 50 still remain in texas.
They basically hate women, and want to push vindictive bullshit - even if this woman is afforded agency over her own body, Paxton has said he'll sue the docs nurses and medical center.
If people who disagree with the Republicans always leave, then the Republicans will be unopposed and will always win. This is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Children growing up in Texas can see first-hand the intentional cruelty of the ruling party, and I believe that is why the GOP will eventually lose, and their only chance for the near future is unlawfully seizing power.
In a vacuum you're not wrong, but the real-world implication is that you're asking parents to willingly subject their children to the cruelty of the GOP to maybe have a chance of changing it in the future.
Do children have to be in a school shooting to know that they shouldn't happen? Do they have to see their classmate forced to carry their rapist's baby to know that abortion should be allowed in at least some circumstances? Do they have to freeze with no power to learn that a privatized power grid will always prioritize its profits over their health?
running out the clock, denying this woman justice and forcing her to suffer just for suffering's sake. remember this in november. they'll try to pretend they've softened their position, they'll talk about reasonable exceptions, they'll pretend they're just here to defend a little life but at the end of the day the republican party platform is to identify people they consider substandard and cause them as much pain and suffering a possible. it's the common thread behind everything they try to do.