Texas is NOT a red state. It’s gerrymandered to hell.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
485 points (99.0% liked)
politics
25292 readers
3017 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Christian values at its finest here.
I wonder how many Savita Halappanavar's (she died from complications post miscarriage in Ireland in 2012) there need to be in the world before people pull their heads out of their asses and let women have true bodily autonomy and give them the care that goes along with that?
Like, whether you take the Hippocratic Oath, the WHO's Oath, Lasagna's Oath (yes, it's a thing - one of the revisions of the Hippocratic Oath in the 20th century done by a man who's last name was Lasagna), or any of the other versions that are out there, the one unifying factor is that as a medical professional you swear to not harm your patients. This is harming patients. They are breaking their oaths and should have their licenses revoked for intentional malpractice.
For physicians in these total ban states, defying the law would mean the loss of everything they have. Under your edict here, OB/Gyns would lose their license no matter what. They'd lose their license under your plan if they refused to provide abortion care and they'd lose their license and face prison time if they did provide abortion care.
Yes, it means that the women who need abortion care are going to suffer immensely, but there's already a dire shortage of OB/Gyn physicians, so losing more of them to prison is not going to help all the women that need regular obstetric or gynecologic care and the women who need abortion care.
This is the definition of "between a rock and a hard place" and there's maternal mortality on both sides because when women can't get prenatal care, it drastically increases the chances of them dying from pregnancy or delivery complications.
The statistics show worse outcomes for black women in abortion restricted states. There are so many deaths from the hands of Republicans. It is insane that they are supported by so many people in this country.
Just a different type of genocide.
Matthew 7:7-8
7 - Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 - For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
In other words: Fuck around and find out.
Yup.
And of course they were both POC. I fucking hate this state, and I don't even live in it.
I was made to either move to Texas or lose my career.
I chose to lose my career.
Republicans are monsters. Fucking evil pieces of shit. That's the type that has swept the party since 2015. The moderates are gone. Only the most heinous pieces of shit fill their ranks in government today.
Is even this politicized?
The answer is yes. They are treating ours and our children's lives as nothing more than pawns.
And of course, when the Republicans do heinous shit, they also make sure to shut down or suppress the institutions that are responsible for keeping track of and reporting this information. All so they can have a few more of those green papers and have enough plausible deniability to not disgust their base into turning against them.
Fuck these people. And fuck the doctors too that follow these bullshit laws they know are morally wrong. Just fucking sitting on their hands and letting people fucking die for no good reason. I hope they never get good sleep for the rest of their lives, knowing they could and should have done more.
So you're saying all of the OB/Gyns in abortion ban states should give up their license and likely go to prison thereby leaving all pregnant patients without care?
Because that's what you're proposing here, functionally. OB/Gyns are already leaving these states in droves because of these bans and it's leaving massive maternal care deserts across the South. There are already millions of people living in areas without OB/Gyn care within 100 miles drive, and now critical access rural hospitals are closing. Also, OB/delivery services are the first thing on the chopping block for budget cuts at struggling hospitals because 41% of births in America are covered by Medicaid. This number is substantially higher in the areas that are also affected by healthcare deserts meaning that up to 90-100% of births might be covered by Medicaid in some of these rural hospitals. With the Medicaid cuts, that means that the hospital loses thousands of dollars for every baby born there when they're already deep in the red.
Your "all or nothing" approach to what physicians should be doing leaves absolutely no consideration for the secondary effects of such actions. If providing one abortion meant the complete loss of an OB/Gyn physician to a community, the tradeoff simply is not worth it. There are so many things that can go wrong with pregnancy and delivery that are not fixable with abortion (and what if it's a wanted pregnancy?). Depriving communities of qualified physicians is a death sentence for many women that will then be unable to access the prenatal care that could have saved their life.
So you're saying all of the OB/Gyns in abortion ban states should give up their license and likely go to prison thereby leaving all pregnant patients without care?
Nope, I didn't say that.
I'm saying these people should operate by the oath they made to do no harm. I'm saying I wish someone would take a stand and help someone that needs it, so they don't just sit there and die for no good reason.
If they lose their license and go to jail for helping someone, then the laws are truly unjust and should not be followed. Maybe it would bring more attention to this shit instead of just letting people die, having our institutions not report it, and only a small handful of people ever seeing this article. Maybe there would be a lot more articles about the doctor that got arrested for saving someone's life. And if people can't get the care from that physician that was arrested for saving someone's life, that is the state's problem. It's not the Doctors fault for sticking to the words they swore everyone they would live by. Maybe something would happen instead of everyone just sitting idly by and letting shit keep getting worse. Maybe one Doctor inspires more Doctors to do the same. They can't arrest all the Doctors.
If I was a doctor in one of these states, I would absolutely risk my career for this. Wouldn't you? It is cowardice not to. If they want to arrest all the Doctors and cause the rest to flee the state, leaving their citizens vulnerable, that is the state's fault for pushing this archaic bullshit down our throats. They should have thought of the consequences before passing laws telling doctors to stop giving people healthcare! In my opinion, doctors being scared to lose their licenses and just letting people die instead shouldn't be doctors anymore.
The victims are the disenfranchised minorities. The doctors (sometimes) are intimidated into compliance because they don't want to be held liable.
Texas has some of the most lax gun laws... just saying
They don't want to lose their medical licences more like, because then they help noone
Direct link without Apple redirect
Thanks. Is there a common way to de-apple such a link or did you have to search for the original article?
It's automatic in this case.
There are browser addons to skip redirects, but I don't know how well they work.
For sharing from Apple News, instead of using the share button (if that's what you did) I guess you could open the link in a browser first, let it redirect and then copy the original URL.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
Nothing brings people to your side like sending out a random scold.
Good shit, good shit. Very tactical.
(I voted Harris)
Thank you.
Well good riddance, those baby murdering criminals!
/S
Texas, the bastion of democracy. Right alongside Alberta, and the rest of the South.
2A for all... Texas loves their guns
Texas Living. 🤷♂️ oh well.
Ah... No money for anything but oil subsidies. Must be nice not having any social problems in your state.
Edit: their state.