The headline atop the front page of the Dallas Morning News screamed out that the new Texas Legislature faces many “challenges” as it prepares to get to work on our behalf for the next five months.
One of them surely is going to be abortion and whether legislators are intent on banning all abortive procedures, all of ’em, making women, spouses and docs criminals.
Newly sworn in Rep. Brent Money, R-Greenville, says categorically that Texas must ban all abortion, citing what he said is “God’s creation” being sacred to merit legislation by mere mortal human beings. He appeared this morning on WFAA-TV’s “Inside Politics” program.
I will disagree with the gentleman. He doesn’t seem to take into account what happens to a child who is born with debilitating deformities. Who cannot care for herself or himself. Whose birth puts Mama’s health — and life — in jeopardy.
I offer those caveats as a pro-life Texas resident myself. I consider myself pro-life, however, I do not believe in legislating from afar whether a woman can take command of her own body or whether she must surrender her reproductive rights because some lawmaker in Austin forces her to do so.
Rep. Money is taking the seat once held by another right-wing extremist, Bryan Slaton, who was drummed out of the House because he got a female legislative staffer drunk as a skunk before having sex with her.
I am going out on a limb here, but I do not believe most Texans adhere to Money’s view that we need to ban all abortion, period.
There in could lie Texas lawmakers’ huge “challenge” as they prepare to convene their next session this week.
May the force of common sense and compassion be with all of them.
Iâve fought this one for years. I donât believe in murdering the unborn. But, I also donât want a mother to suffer or a baby to be born in which itâs an âunfairâ burden on the family.
What I donât want to see is women using abortion as a birth control method. And yes, it happens quite a bit. They say a womanâs body her choice. If a man is supposed to pay child support to their child, shouldnât the man have a say before a women terminates the pregnancy just because she doesnât want the baby? They were both there when the baby was made.
Do you know how many “men” pay zero child support? It’s not about child support anyway; it’s about a women’s ability to access and receive healthcare…and yes, abortion is healthcare. One option is if you are so against choice for women, then I suggest you stay celibate. Then, you won’t even need to be in this conversation as it has nothing to do with what you want. I worked for many years as a Temporary Managing Conservatorship caseworker for the state of Texas in the Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services, CPS division. I can assure you there are people who do not use birth control, have multiple births they cannot afford, yet go on to have an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy. I had one client with 12 children from multiple fathers. She would never agree to an abortion because, “it was morally against her beliefs.” What? Give me a break. Amarillo is short of foster homes. The federal government, under the Republicans, could not care less about cutting programs to help these mothers they insist carry a pregnancy to term. They don’t even like providing free lunches to children in school or provide daycare assistance. It’s BS hypocrisy.