In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.
Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients,
It’s not even a small part, and it’s the only part we’re gonna get for decades, because Democrats love to coast on half-measures.
What we get is going to depend on who we elect. We can vote for more and better Democrats…or choose to elect people who want to maximize environmental damage.
We can vote for more. The party opposes better more stridently than it opposes Republicans.
“the party” is elected too. You can change it much as a bunch of Sanders supporters went and got rules changed to make it easier to launch primary challenges.
And just look at how much easier that became.
Oh yeah, it fucking didn’t.