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knit1purr2So this new Texas law has me fuming for multiple reasons.
1. 6 weeks? Like you can't even getting your first OB appointment be 6 weeks, even if you have been obsessively tracking your cycle. not to mention the many many menstruating people who have weird, long or irregular cycles. So be they time they may notice something is up, it may be long after 6 weeks. Also 6 weeks means you have only been pregnant for 4 week as the first 2 weeks are before ovulation and then you have to wait 2 more weeks for a missed period (assuming you have a 4 week cycle). So at most that gives you 2 weeks to know you are pregnant and decide not to stay pregnant. When you scheduled a doctors appointment how long until they could see you? 2 weeks? 3? months?
2. The idea that we are going to have people report on each other to collect a bounty? What is this the wild west? When has putting bounties out ever worked well? Like how will you know you can you reach out to for support and what if someone overhears your? This is basically going to be a witch hunt and make more divides among people. Also this is just going to be a waste of taxpayers money to investigate.
3. Supreme court silence on this whole thing. Like this is what people will afraid of in 2016 and when RBG died. There are so many other states that are ready to make safe abortion a thing a past. And I say safe abortions because people will still try and find a away.
4. I thought my last pregnancy was all fine and dandy until week 20. Way way past 6 weeks. Also I live is a blue state that is pretty liberal, but I still have to travel 45 minutes to a clinic that would see me. I am privileged enough to quickly travel there, get childcare during my appointment, have a job that would allow me to take time off with minimal notice and be able to put 5k on my credit card because it was a private pay clinic and my insurance didn't cover it.
So today I am very angry and frustrated and scared.
1. 6 weeks? Like you can't even getting your first OB appointment be 6 weeks, even if you have been obsessively tracking your cycle. not to mention the many many menstruating people who have weird, long or irregular cycles. So be they time they may notice something is up, it may be long after 6 weeks. Also 6 weeks means you have only been pregnant for 4 week as the first 2 weeks are before ovulation and then you have to wait 2 more weeks for a missed period (assuming you have a 4 week cycle). So at most that gives you 2 weeks to know you are pregnant and decide not to stay pregnant. When you scheduled a doctors appointment how long until they could see you? 2 weeks? 3? months?
2. The idea that we are going to have people report on each other to collect a bounty? What is this the wild west? When has putting bounties out ever worked well? Like how will you know you can you reach out to for support and what if someone overhears your? This is basically going to be a witch hunt and make more divides among people. Also this is just going to be a waste of taxpayers money to investigate.
3. Supreme court silence on this whole thing. Like this is what people will afraid of in 2016 and when RBG died. There are so many other states that are ready to make safe abortion a thing a past. And I say safe abortions because people will still try and find a away.
4. I thought my last pregnancy was all fine and dandy until week 20. Way way past 6 weeks. Also I live is a blue state that is pretty liberal, but I still have to travel 45 minutes to a clinic that would see me. I am privileged enough to quickly travel there, get childcare during my appointment, have a job that would allow me to take time off with minimal notice and be able to put 5k on my credit card because it was a private pay clinic and my insurance didn't cover it.
So today I am very angry and frustrated and scared.
