Thank you Jordan for your kind words above. It has been awful hard since September 2021, when the triumvirate passed “the heartbeat bill” and Texas began to lead the nation in asininity. And insanity.
It is a true horror now, with Texas the worst nationally in medicaid “unwinding” at the same time as a >2% increase in birth rate since that law. Texas is first in uninsured people, uninsured children specifically, and dead last in funding per child if they do have medicaid. It’s so sad, and frankly embarrassing as hell to those of involved in public health.
It kills me these are the most fragile populations and they been left hanging while pregnant people have lost ability to control their family size, and fetuses are seen separate from the women who gestate. Like every cell but the Y chromosome is built by her body.
Not having resources for families after the fetus is then an actual child person is what hurts me the most. Food yall. A house. These the kind of things we holding up as “unfeasible economically” in Texas.
But we, the majority of good people of Texas, are fighting back, and holding up Texas’ failure to take care of the already born. This message is part of that: people should know and fight. Telling stories is part of that.
The hypocrisy is astounding. Call themselves Christians. WWJD as says the bumpersticker down here. I say “WTF you think Jesus would do?” WTFWJD?
Anyway thanks for moral support right now, and continuing your writing.
Absolutely Bruce. We can’t mess around with Texas BS anymore. Federalize the national guard, and show Texas’ evil trio they can’t mess with national borders.
People need to remember that the National Guard is still ultimately under federal control and they are not play toys for the states. It is time for Biden to federalize the Texas National Guard just like Eisenhower did with the Arkansas National Guard in the Little Rock Crisis. That was also a case to enforce a Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education.
Thank you Jordan. I’m an OBGyn MD in Austin. We are here in Texas trying to take care of women and children, despite crumbling funding and a growing at risk population. Please don’t say we should leave. We stay and fight.
To the Abbott/Paxton/Patrick trio: beware the wrath. Greg Abbott. We are gunning for you.
Or in his case, just wheel him to a boat dock along the Rio Grande and let go.
Thank you for the work you’re doing, it must be such an immensely difficult atmosphere for people working in reproductive care in Texas right now. Have you felt monitored or under the gun since the abortion ban started?
Thank you Jordan for your kind words above. It has been awful hard since September 2021, when the triumvirate passed “the heartbeat bill” and Texas began to lead the nation in asininity. And insanity.
It is a true horror now, with Texas the worst nationally in medicaid “unwinding” at the same time as a >2% increase in birth rate since that law. Texas is first in uninsured people, uninsured children specifically, and dead last in funding per child if they do have medicaid. It’s so sad, and frankly embarrassing as hell to those of involved in public health.
It kills me these are the most fragile populations and they been left hanging while pregnant people have lost ability to control their family size, and fetuses are seen separate from the women who gestate. Like every cell but the Y chromosome is built by her body.
Not having resources for families after the fetus is then an actual child person is what hurts me the most. Food yall. A house. These the kind of things we holding up as “unfeasible economically” in Texas.
But we, the majority of good people of Texas, are fighting back, and holding up Texas’ failure to take care of the already born. This message is part of that: people should know and fight. Telling stories is part of that.
The hypocrisy is astounding. Call themselves Christians. WWJD as says the bumpersticker down here. I say “WTF you think Jesus would do?” WTFWJD?
Anyway thanks for moral support right now, and continuing your writing.
Absolutely Bruce. We can’t mess around with Texas BS anymore. Federalize the national guard, and show Texas’ evil trio they can’t mess with national borders.
People need to remember that the National Guard is still ultimately under federal control and they are not play toys for the states. It is time for Biden to federalize the Texas National Guard just like Eisenhower did with the Arkansas National Guard in the Little Rock Crisis. That was also a case to enforce a Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education.
Boat ramp”not “boat dock” along the Rio Grande sounds better
Thank you Jordan. I’m an OBGyn MD in Austin. We are here in Texas trying to take care of women and children, despite crumbling funding and a growing at risk population. Please don’t say we should leave. We stay and fight.
To the Abbott/Paxton/Patrick trio: beware the wrath. Greg Abbott. We are gunning for you.
Or in his case, just wheel him to a boat dock along the Rio Grande and let go.
Thank you for the work you’re doing, it must be such an immensely difficult atmosphere for people working in reproductive care in Texas right now. Have you felt monitored or under the gun since the abortion ban started?