Texas questions rights of a fetus after a prison guard who had a stillborn baby sues

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Texas questions rights of a fetus after a prison guard who had a stillborn baby sues
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I honestly hope they’re too far up their own asses to realize its a liability yet. If they consider it profitable into next years election cycle, and the trend of the last few special elections holds, then having them double down could really benefit the democrats.

Then, maybe the US could get the majority required to enshrine abortion rights into law nationally and put an end to this nonsense.

I acknowledge this could all just be wishful thinking, however.

Only if we got the lazy 1/3rd of the country to vote that refuses to

I don't think its fair to characterize itcall as laziness. I wanted to vote in my state's Supreme Court election, but the booth was in a megachurch; not super workable for me as a trans woman.

Thankfully, Wisconsin's court flipped anyway.