Summary
Texas has seen a spike in abandoned newborns since its abortion ban, with some infants found dead in dumpsters or ditches.
Critics link the rise to reduced access to abortion, cuts to prenatal care, underfunded safe haven programs, and fear of deportation among undocumented women.
Texas Republicans have resisted funding awareness campaigns for safe haven laws, instead allocating $165 million to crisis pregnancy centers that prioritize deterring abortion over aiding women.
The lack of support has drawn condemnation, highlighting the broader consequences of restrictive reproductive policies.
Well duh, they’re not pro life, they’re pro birth. Once that umbilical cord is cut, you’re dead to them, and we’ve known this for years.
Pro birth is not how you spell control over 50% of the population.
Forced birth is more accurate.
It is when you make safe birth extremely expensive to access without good healthcare.
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Why would they? This is about controlling women.
Except on the most rare cases of qon zealots, they don’t really give a flying fuck about “babies”, whether they are talking about embryos or actual newborns.
It’s pro forced birth not pro life. Suffering is the goal
watch them go the route of the nypd on public transit and start posting officers around dumpsters. remember, in america, the answer to any problem is always to increase police funding.
Because the only thing that matters to them is controlling women’s bodies. If they acknowledge this at all, ever, it’ll be used to promote religious abstinence so they can get back to owning women as property as their god intended
“Pre born, you’re fine, pre-K, you’re fucked!”
-Probably Descartes or someone-
probably theirs
More suffering. Yep. More coming, too.
They never cared
Anti abortionist =/= pro baby
Except that’s often exactly how they frame it.
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That’s an obvious oversimplification. If it was just about making more dead soldiers, they would care more about all the dead school-age kids, too…
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Not at all. American Conservatives are just being pragmatic! With American public schools defunded and turned into war zones they weed out the weak kids without having to lift a finger. The ones who survive are already desensitized, comfortable wearing body armor, and conditioned to willingly die for the State like all good children should be.
Once they’re out, they’re on their own.
/sConsidering how accurate that is, the /s isn’t even necessary.
Man, i wish. Unfortunately, my Internet points have been affected in the past when i didn’t include the sarcasm notation.
Welcome to lemmy, where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter
So, it turns out that people are gonna be people regardless of whatever laws are passed. In this particular case, by outlawing abortion women that weren’t in a position to take care of a child no longer have a way to rid themselves of a burden (to them). Now, instead of seeing a licensed medical professional to abort the fetus, they have the kid and leave it in a dumpster. Either way, that child never gets the chance to live life. One way, it’s never born in the first place. The other, it is born and deals with a lot of pain before it inevitably expires. The woman is left traumatized by the experience and the world is a worse place.
If we just, y’know, empower women to make their own decisions regarding the use of their bodies and allow them to seek medical assistance when required, this wouldn’t happen. However, the republican leadership in this state (and country) would much rather have us at each other’s throats instead of all of us coming together to realize they’re fleecing everyone for every dime they have.
This is consistent with their pro fetal-life platform.
