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Results: Way To Go Texas -- Once Again Attacking Women's Right To Choose

Published on 09/15/2021
By: Harriet56
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A Texas law banning abortion at 6 weeks, which is before most women even realize they're pregnant or have missed a period, officially took effect on Wednesday, Sept. 1, months after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed it last May. Until September 2021, Texas permitted abortions up to 20 weeks. After 20 weeks pregnant people could get an abortion only if they had a life-threatening medical condition or the fetus had a severe abnormality. This new law makes no exception for pregnancies that resulted from rape or incest. On this matter, how do you stand:
A Texas law banning abortion at 6 weeks, which is before most women even realize they're pregnant or have missed a period, officially took effect on Wednesday, Sept. 1, months after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed it last May. Until September 2021, Texas permitted abortions up to 20 weeks. After 20 weeks pregnant people could get an abortion only if they had a life-threatening medical condition or the fetus had a severe abnormality. This new law makes no exception for pregnancies that resulted from rape or incest. On this matter, how do you stand:
I am in 100% agreement with this new Texas law
14%
333 votes
I am pro-choice -- a woman has the right to chose if she continues her pregnancy under any circumstances
29%
666 votes
I am pro-life (anti-choice) but feel this Texas law is too restrictive
7%
152 votes
I am pro-choice, but only if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest
5%
126 votes
I am pro-choice, as long as it is under 20 weeks gestation
5%
122 votes
I am pro-choice for medical reasons, or fetal abnormalities
2%
53 votes
I am pro-choice for several of the listed reasons
20%
452 votes
Unsure
17%
396 votes
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The law also categorizes abortion after 6 weeks as a civil violation, not a criminal ban, which essentially allows people to sue anyone who may have helped people get an abortion, such as abortion providers or abortion care advocates. Ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft pledged they will cover the legal fees of any driver who is sued under the new law, if they are sued transporting women to clinics. San Francisco-based Lyft said it has created a fund to cover 100 per cent of the legal fees for drivers sued under the law while driving on its platform. Calling the Texas law "an attack on women's right to choose," Lyft also said it would donate $1 million to Planned Parenthood. Do you think this new law is "an attack on women's right to choose"?
The law also categorizes abortion after 6 weeks as a civil violation, not a criminal ban, which essentially allows people to sue anyone who may have helped people get an abortion, such as abortion providers or abortion care advocates. Ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft pledged they will cover the legal fees of any driver who is sued under the new law, if they are sued transporting women to clinics. San Francisco-based Lyft said it has created a fund to cover 100 per cent of the legal fees for drivers sued under the law while driving on its platform. Calling the Texas law
Absolutely!
58%
1325 votes
Not sure
21%
491 votes
No
21%
484 votes
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If this restrictive law holds up, people will find ways to end their pregnancies at home or in illegal clinics. In a 1976 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of illegal abortions in the United States estimated prior to the decision of Roe v. Wade was 130,000 in 1972. At least 39 deaths were also reported in 1972 underscoring how abortions without medical oversight could be dangerous. This law will not stop abortions -- it will only prevent women from accessing safe, regulated abortions. No matter how you personally feel about abortions, the end result will be that women will still get abortions, and more of these women will either die or cause irreversible damage to their reproductive organs, or be forced to carry and give birth to a child they can not or will not care for. Do you honestly think that a law like this will prevent abortions from taking place?
If this restrictive law holds up, people will find ways to end their pregnancies at home or in illegal clinics. In a 1976 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of illegal abortions in the United States estimated prior to the decision of Roe v. Wade was 130,000 in 1972. At least 39 deaths were also reported in 1972 underscoring how abortions without medical oversight could be dangerous. This law will not stop abortions -- it will only prevent women from accessing safe, regulated abortions. No matter how you personally feel about abortions, the end result will be that women will still get abortions, and more of these women will either die or cause irreversible damage to their reproductive organs, or be forced to carry and give birth to a child they can not or will not care for. Do you honestly think that a law like this will prevent abortions from taking place?
Yes
15%
342 votes
No
60%
1389 votes
Undecided
25%
569 votes
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Calling this new law the "heartbeat law" is also very misleading and medically inaccurate as an embryo does not have a developed heart at six weeks' gestation. Flickering that we see on the ultrasound early in the development of a pregnancy, is actually electric activity. And the sound that we hear at that point is actually manufactured by the ultrasound machine. An embryo at six weeks' gestation is only about four weeks old, because the pregnancy clock starts at the parent's last menstrual period. Most people don't realize they are pregnant until after they have missed a period, two weeks after conception. Using the term "heartbeat law" is done purely for an emotional response, similar to the photos of fully formed babies used by Pro-life groups to evoke a similar response. Can you see how the very wording of this law is misleading?
Calling this new law the
Yes
55%
1259 votes
Not sure
25%
577 votes
I do not think it is misleading
20%
464 votes
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And to even suggest that a woman or a child (as many are) who was raped or got pregnant through incest, should carry that baby to term, deliver and relive the nightmare time and time again, is, in my opinion, inhumane and cruel. This law insists it is protecting the "unborn life", with absolutely no regard for the life that has been destroyed by carrying this to term. And, with the 6 week marker, the guilt, shame, disbelief and anxiety that women or children must go through would most definitely go far beyond that 6 week mark. If nothing else, this law shows how little regard the lawmakers in Texas have for human life (unless it's in the womb). Even if you feel abortion is wrong, do you agree that this is an exception that should definitely be made?
And to even suggest that a woman or a child (as many are) who was raped or got pregnant through incest, should carry that baby to term, deliver and relive the nightmare time and time again, is, in my opinion, inhumane and cruel. This law insists it is protecting the
Yes
55%
1257 votes
No
16%
371 votes
Undecided
29%
672 votes
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