Great question. My dad was a lot like Trump: a malignant sociopath without the rat's nest hair or tower on 5th Avenue. My mom used to muse about how many illegitimate kids he might have since he would fuck a box of rocks.
Whatever you do, do NOT get any 23-and-me type genetic testing, or you may find out how many of those half siblings suddenly need your bank routing number.
He sounds just like my ex. My daughter said she will never have genetic testing done, because she doesn’t want to find out she has another sibling. She has three, and that’s enough.
That might about all he's getting these days. Perhaps he could be the only ex POTUS who might need Tommy John surgery for a non- baseball related elbow injury.
I am literally shaking with anger over this. As Ms. Spouse so aptly put it, women need to wake the fuck up. I want these assholes in Texas to explain how this is going to affect them. It's beyond cruel...I'm so pissed off.
That also has to take into account that not only the Supreme Court is bought and paid for, but also State Supreme Courts. Point in case, without mentioning names Florida?
I wish it were that easy. In 2003. the Republiscum in TX finally got a majority in the lege for the first time since the Civil War (if I remember right, that was because W was president and 9/11 9/11 9/11) and they took the opportunity to fuck up voting and voting districts beyond all recognition. True, for statewide elections (like for gov & US senator) only the final vote total counts, but gerrymandering isn't just about the number of voters by party in a district, it's also about being able to treat voters in some areas differently.
In rural counties, which are mostly red, you don't have to stand in line, miss work if it's crowded, park quite a distance away or find accomodation for disabilities, or deal with all the other obstacles to voting. In Texas, the districts that are bigger/more liberal get WAY fewer resources and a lot of restrictions, like number and convenience of polling places and election workers, how many days of early voting there are -- in fact, the lege and other state officials go out of their way to make voting in places like Houston as hard as possible without inconveniencing any of the 65 voters in a rural county.
If you want to know how a perennially-indicted, impeached state attorney general can stay in office even after a number of credible accusations of criminal behavior made by staunch conservative state attorneys who once worked for him, this is a good part of how you do it.
Totally. I recall the Democrat woman governor but can't recall her name now. Texas wasn't gerrymandered than and neither was my home state of Wisconsin. The "plan" of republican power hasn't always had this agenda but that twisted minority has worked hard to change their status from crazy to what it is now, evil.
Ann Richards. She was great! (There have only been two women who were Texas governors, and the other one was Ma Ferguson, in the 1920s-30s.
I think what probably made Ann Richards most famous was the keynote speech at the 1988 DNC convention, when she very effectively skewered George HW Bush, then in a perfect, classic "bless his little heart" moment said, "Poor George, he just can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
Texas Monthly magazine did this great cover of her in the '90s, wearing white fringed leathers and matching cowboy boots, on a Harley -- all photoshopped, but absolutely believable, given who she was. We could sure use her help right now.
I still think the MAGA/GQP cheat so much in Texas that it's virtually impossible for anything good to happen. They're never worried about elections in Texas or Kentucky...I've always wondered why.
They do cheat. How do you think Ted Cruz manages to hang onto his seat? No one in Texas likes him very much.
He's up for reelection next year. Unfortunately, since Gov Dr Evil Hot Wheels has executed a hostile takeover of Harris Co elections this year (i.e. most of Houston) our chances of getting rid of him in 2024 are even slimmer. I'm hoping he'll go back to Cancun and get kidnapped or something, maybe held for ransom (which no one would actually want to pay because he might come back). But it would be just our luck the kidnappers couldn't stand him either.
I can't believe Texans had the chance to elect someone like Beto instead of Cruz or Abbott and didn't do it. If I lived there I'd be so heartbroken I couldn't stand it. I really feel for anyone who lives there; I'd be at my wit's end!
And I will never believe that Beto O'Rourke did not win that election. It was almost like, from the start of the candidacy, Abbott didn't campaign much so seemed like he had it "wrapped up" illegally. Beto won.
We still have to try and the best way to start is at the ballot box to elect people willing to fight any corruption or right wing extremist individuals.
I cry when I'm angry. I'm crying. These men-gods repulse me. I'd guess most men don't know how the female body/pregnancy works. Clearly Paxton doesn't. He'd rather see women die than to tread on the flag of Texas.
Tread on the flag of Texas. I don't quite understand. How does allowing abortions "tread on the flag of Texas?" When there are so many children without homes, and it turns into a crisis, maybe then, and the children suffer. That's the saddest part. Forcing women to give birth when they are not ready to become a mother. It's not fair to the children who are forced into Foster care or adoptions. Men do not have the right to tell a woman what she can and can't do. He can walk away without a care in the world. She can't.
He doesn’t want a WOMAN to tread on the flag of Texas. Texas has abortion laws. He would rather see her die than have an abortion. I certainly believe that every woman should make her own choice, and not be ruled by the government. I, myself, made that choice many years ago.
Thank you for explaining. My parent gave me the choice when I was 17 years old. I chose to keep her, but they gave me the choice. I had a best girlfriend, Patti, when we were early senior year, she got pregnant, her parents were Republicans, they MADE HER GET AN ABORTION. The hypocrisy is mindblowing. You are against abortions until it happens to your daughter. She didn't want an abortion. A few years later she married a different man, stayed married for over 35 years (cancer got the best of her, several years ago). She miscarried her first born, she always felt like the abortion had something to do with it. She was blessed with 3 amazing boys, men now. I will always support abortion. Girls, woman, it is their choice.
You were blessed to have parents who supported you. It’s difficult to read stories like what your friend went through. Your comment, “You are against abortions until it happens to your daughter” is powerful. I appreciate your passion.
that shaking part, yes!!!! I'm turning into a rageaholic on this topic. How the fuck they dare. If this isn't a clear message to women what the far right thinks of us, there's nothing left for them to say. WE HATE YOU BECAUSE.....
They apparently don't give a flying f*** about doctors or hospitals either. They've quickly gone from wanting to preserve all life to criminally threatening professionals.
Well, being pro-life in Texas does have some limits, like birth. Post-birth, Republiscum don't really care so much about babies. Also, they don't have any trouble helping an immigrant get an involuntary abortion via wired-together saw blades as she crosses the Rio Grande.
I hate SO MUCH about this place, I really do. Excuse me while I go do some breathing exercises and try to calm the fuck down.
An extension of power just like rape is all about control and power. The same issue with domestic violence. How do women get away or protect themselves with these kind of laws?
Me, too! It is barbaric...and that asshole Ken Paxton has the fucking nerve to comment on any subject, especially this, when he should be in jail! I pray some day, that if there IS a God she strikes down at least one of these cretins so that the rest of them will think before they continue this bullshit!!!!
I cant agree with you enough, Janet. This might be one of the most heinous stories to come out of Texas so far. If there was a GoFund me to help with legal fees, I'd contribute. Dems better get out ahead of this and make it a central story. Horrendous.
I told this story but I will tell it again here - because stupid men like those Republicans supporting this need to hear it. My mother was pregnant in 1958 (pre-Roe) with a much wanted child. The nursery was set up. I was 2 years old. My father was running the family company for his father. At 9 months - yes - that 9 months the Republicans keep talking about - the fetus died inside of her from a premature placental separation. She couldn’t get the dead baby removed because the doctors were being threatened just like Kevin Paxton is threatening these doctors. She fortunately passed the dead baby before she went septic. But for years all I heard was how the doctors made her carry a dead baby inside her for 2 weeks. My father became PRO-CHOICE as soon as Roe became law. Those doctors had almost cost him his beautiful young wife and would have left him a widower with a 2 year old daughter in the 50ies, while he was trying to keep people employed - all for a dead baby!!! When God said be fruitful and multiply - the woman has to stay alive to have more children. After my mother’s experience the women in my family always went to Jewish gynecologists because in the Jewish religion the life of the woman is more important than any one child. The Catholic Church and some others put the life of the child over mother - but that leaves the father with a dead wife and possibly other children to raise alone. Men should be just as angry at Ken Paxton for interfering with their family’s and threatening the lives of the women they love.
Lorraine: I am not going to argue Genesis with you. The Republicans are using the Bible to sway vulnerable Evangelicals to their “cause” despite being liars. The story stands. I don’t have children but I bred horses for years. The life of the mare was more important than any one foal. My mother had two more children. That female Texas judge seemed disgusted that the State was interfering. My point is that the Texas Atty General isn’t just interfering on that woman’s right to her life, he is also interfering on the husband’s right to his family and his wife. What is of more importance to most Americans than their families.
I’ve seen the horror of unwanted children in a hospital up here in Massachusetts it’s rocked me to the core for 50years, I m choking up now as I write,this could get a little long. I was going to visit my 2 future brother in laws at one of the state hospitals in south eastern Mass. .Both had Duchenes Muscular Dystrophy ,good guys ,great attitudes about the shitty hands nature had dealt them,this was the 1st time I had seen them there.Anyway As I entered the hospital there was an open area in the lobby where several kids were lying on blankets in a caged play spot, the poor little things were covered in vomit,shit ,piss and covered with flies,2 of them were co- joined at thier heads,that were shaped like footballs of enormous size,the staff was doing their best to keep them clean,and cool,but they couldn’t keep up with the task, they didn’t have the funds to do it any better than they were doing (state hospital) this was the end of the Nam era,and I thought I’d seen the worst of what damage the human body could handle and live with,the guys coming back from that obscenity of Viet Nam would have been shocked.The 2 kids I mentioned weren’t the worst,and the fucken place was filled with them.I’m a 6’3” 240 pound city guy and I couldn’t stop crying,The staff had to get me to a chair to keep me from hitting the deck, fuck I’m crying now remembering that scene from Hell.When I got my shit straight I asked one staff member What was the reason they were all there together,she told me they were all abandoned from all over the state,they were found in dumpsters ,sewers,thrown from over passes, all kinds of places were garbage was thrown.she said that most of them had been there since they were babies,she said that back in the 60’s it was much much worse many more than now,this is the mid70’s.she added the lifting of the abortion laws had greatly affected the situation.To make a long story longer I’ll add that I was told that a good percentage of the damaged babies they were caring for now were left by their mothers who had no choice,they couldn’t afford or provide for their children they were giving up,they had others to take care for.The point of this tragic story is that abortion is a necessary procedure for millions of people who are so completely ignored by the government and it’s middle age bullshit laws, regulations and lack of compassion that they have nowhere to turn in a life threatening situation that completely ignores their existence,until one of their holier than thou (we know what’s best for you laws) is broken,Know what Fuck You you fucken hypocrites you fucken idiots you should have to live with the consequences of the laws you made for others you fucken self righteous monsters you should be ashamed of yourself and what these laws have done to good people’s lives and the poor kids that suffer because of them.If I knew Gods existence was fact I’d pray to him ,her ,it that YOU and your fucken self righteous asses fried in Hell .
Kay, your story is so prevalent given the state of SCOTUS now with the majority of justices being Catholics. That is by design by none other than Leonard Leo and his ilk. Truly our only hope is that Biden expands the court and gives these criminals a run for their millions/billions.
It’s why our separation of church and state is so important. I have had a Near Death Experience. I saw Heaven and no one is going to convince me otherwise. However, having seen and experienced the love of Heaven, I know what the Republicans are pushing is wrong. It is against what Jesus actually preached. This country was formed by people who desired to escape forced religion their ancestors experienced.
Thank you for sharing your story. And you are absolutely right.
The life expectancy of a baby girl born in 1900 was 49 years. A baby girl born in 2000 has a life expectancy of 80.
Several things contribute including vaccines, antibiotics, and better pre/post-natal care and modern medical care of pregnant women, including abortion.
So great that what should be a private medical decision between a woman and her physician can now include lawyers, Greg F’ing Abbott, Greg’s corrupt piece of garbage AG Texas State government, judges, journalists, and everyone else.
Well, this certainly strengthens my long held resolve to Never Live In Texas. Anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, for that matter.
I hope that this is a temporary insanity, and that future generations will restore women's rights. I know that's weak sauce, but honestly, the young 'uns do give me hope.
I'm with you...I shudder to even think about driving past the Mason Dixon line. I'm so angry and frustrated about this. The younger voter is critical -I hope they are paying attention.
My husband and I had long planned to go to Austin but I won’t spend a dime in that state. In fact, with the spike in antisemitic activity everywhere, going south of the Mason-Dixon would be too dangerous. The irony is, we’re completely secular - just like the majority of German Jews in Auschwitz and Dachau.
Austin is like an island floating in a cesspool where even alligators will not go. New Orleans is the same. Our new governor elect does not want to let the resurrection of our antique water system in New Orleans to go forward until women are prosecuted here for having abortions. It is that specific. Sounds like Tuberville with the military, which we will point out over and over and rub in until his skin bleeds, You Got Nothing For All That Tubs except enemies.
It's not normal, but somehow i think that if you survive 24, the changes necessary to move America forward will come about. Slowly but surely, but also with great resistance.
And some body should ask the federal government to look into Jackson Mississippi's water "issues" as well.
This is where the Federal Government needs to step in and make it right.
This is a Civil Rights issue , please note i am not a lawyer. So dont quote me Please.
I think why I Am so up to date on the goings on in the US, is because i take akn interest in things US. We are inundated? Up here with US news day in day out.
I have cable so PBS and BBC, And all major TV networks. Newspapers.
And on top of that i love America
I may not agree with everything that goes on down there, but what never ever gets said is that Americans by and large are GOOD PEOPLE.
PS: The Jackson Mississippi's Water problem was featured on what else ?
Born and raised New Orleanian here, currently living in Chicago.
While there are many reasons I'll never move back, the fact that Louisiana has become such a BLOODY RED state (along with the rest of the Gulf Coast), is a big one. And Christ on a pogo stick, I had no idea Landry felt that way about the water.
Landry is a full-on MAGA Trump loving corrupt to the core Republican. And I feel quite sure he despises everything about New Orleans. They've always been pissed off about us there.
Oregon, Colorado, Washington, Arizona and Cali all have enlightened urban areas, it's the rural counties that elect morons like Paul Gossar and Kevin McCarthy.
The only hope is that normal Republicans are seeing this and looking at their daughters. A seed of doubt is beginning to enter their Swiss cheese brains.
The young people I know are over the issues that older generations struggle with. They just take it for granted that love is love, and I see less racism among them. For example.
If Democrats don't get their acts together and start making sure every woman and girl in the Country hears of these atrocities, these patriarchs will win. We need a big enough win - up and down the ballot - to change things. Because if they win, we will be living in The Republic of Gilead.
They could start by paying Jeff for this column and reprinting it in digital and paper advertising as needed. Because political marketing is mainly only occurring in one direction successfully right now - Republican propaganda media to the ignorant masses.
Hillary Clinton and her supporters were SCREAMING from the rooftops that Roe v. Wade was on the ballot in 2016. So-called "progressives" like Bernie said Planned Parenthood was the "establishment" and that being a woman wasn't a legitimate reason to vote for HRC and called it "identity politics." So-called "progressives" like Susan Fucking Sarandon told us HRC was a "warmonger" and told people to vote for Jill Fucking Stein instead (who's back trying to fuck things up again). All the while, the media was constantly yelling "but her emails!" while we watched our constitutional right to control our own bodies circling the fucking drain.
Hillary Clinton and her supporters were right about EVERY. FUCKING. THING. As I've said a thousand times, I will die mad about it, rise from the grave, and die mad about it again.
can't tell you how many times in 2016 I said "the supreme court is at stake" and got "I don't know, I just don't like her" as a response. it's maddening to think back on it
Or,Trump? Are you fucking kidding a serial bankrupt with no experience?? Ah, the last recession, near depression was only 8 ago and you want this broke phoney running the country?
Harm to the state? WTAF? No judge should be put in the middle of a decision between a woman and her doctor, but this is Texas and the powers that be care little about Texan women. Fuck Ken Paxton and the horse he rode in on.
I expected that sentence to end with the only harm would be to the unborn fetus. When I read "harm to the STATE", my jaw literally dropped. Also, that state attorney needs to learn to spell Jonathan and, as somebody once said, "get the "h" out of there." Kidding, but I do find that annoying. I like the name Jonathan and I like the usual spelling of it better than sticking an unnecessary letter in there.
In the great state of absolute fuckery we call Texas, Ken Paxton (and Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz, and the list goes on) thinks he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
Really, I get that they work for any client that will pay them good money, and no moral principles are involved - after all, you need money to live in America! - but what gets me is that the law schools still go through the motions of having a legal ethics course.
Good god I hate these fucking assholes. Wife and I got the trisomy 18 diagnosis 30 years ago. Living in that liberal bastion of 1990s Arizona we were able to terminate and everything about the diagnosis and the abortion was awful. I can't imagine what this couple is going through. In public with their state government gunning for them. If Arizona can go blue (well, purple) then Texas can too. Vote these assholes out.
Some people count steps they take in a day, I count the amount of fucks rolling off my tongue or written on the page. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Ah, much better.
Harm to the state? Let’s talk harm to that baby, who, by all accounts, if it is born will die an excruciating death. Nice pro-life thing they’ve got going on there.
Yes, I pointed this out yesterday on another site. The baby will die in agony and they don't care and yet one of their main talking (screaming) points against abortion is that the fetus can feel pain. Well, better the brief pain of an abortion than the agony of dying over the course of hours, possibly days.
I think you may be right. I also think this is less about a zygote, a fetus, or a baby and more about a population of men who resent that a woman or a woman’s body can make a decision about what he believes he has created. I clearly remember the days when a woman needed her husband’s permission to get birth control. Her body, her potential belonged exclusively to him.
I had to get my husband’s Permission to have my tubes tied after my second baby. I did not want more children because I had figured out I would probably end up a single parent.
Not even pro-zygote. They're pro-control of women. Insecure, power-hungry, misogynistic mother-fuckers!!! Texas used to be a decent place - glad I moved out!
If a farmer has a cow that is endangered by a pregnancy with a compromised lethal diagnosis calf, he does not have to consult a judge before the veterinarian takes care of it so the cow does not die and may have calves in the future. Women are being relegated to positions BELOW cattle in their rights.
If they want to prosecute everyone for abortions, then the fathers should also be met with consequences, and at the very least lose their reproductive organs like these women might. (OK this father and other caring parents etc are not my point, my point is that the men making babies bear no issue at all, rapists, asshats, and all)
This is a great! Your words are exactly how this should be explained to them. Why are women’s reproductive rights less than that of animal (example; cow)? This would be something that I know would make some people uncomfortable, however, it would make them stop and think about it.
Sense we believe that we are more superior to animals! It would it at the core of their minds. Please get it out on all social media platforms! Please!!! 🙏🏾
Please excuse the mess as my head exploded when I read Paxton’s statement. Cox proved her case (which itself is a travesty), but apparently there really is no exception. Since it’s too late for Paxton to be aborted, I suggest a lobotomy.
Donald Trump has probably paid for more abortions than the madam in a three dollar whorehouse.
Most of us believe that.
I'd be curious to know how many illegitimate kids he has
Fewer than he has forced abortions and NDAs I imagine.
Great question. My dad was a lot like Trump: a malignant sociopath without the rat's nest hair or tower on 5th Avenue. My mom used to muse about how many illegitimate kids he might have since he would fuck a box of rocks.
Whatever you do, do NOT get any 23-and-me type genetic testing, or you may find out how many of those half siblings suddenly need your bank routing number.
100%. We don't even know 23&me's end game. What do they want to do with our genes in the future...
I have seen reporting that China is a customer. Hmm...what could they want?
Words to live by.
Sounds like we had the same “dad”. I refer to mine simply as “sperm donor”.
He sounds just like my ex. My daughter said she will never have genetic testing done, because she doesn’t want to find out she has another sibling. She has three, and that’s enough.
That might about all he's getting these days. Perhaps he could be the only ex POTUS who might need Tommy John surgery for a non- baseball related elbow injury.
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Sorry, but your comment is out of date:
Three dollars was the going rate for a whore when they were Trump's grandfather's whores in his whorehouses.
I guarantee that.
I think we should have a museum where we're gonna display the severed balls of every man who forced women to give birth.
No one ever needs to visit it, but we should have it.
The moment a man sprouts a viable uterus, he's free to so much as share an opinion on this subject.
Meanwhile, we need free, easily available birth control for everyone
I would visit it and laugh myself silly.
I'd be proud to supply a display case.
Oh BLESS YOU! Names of these criminals plastered all over them, as well!
I love the way you think!
I am literally shaking with anger over this. As Ms. Spouse so aptly put it, women need to wake the fuck up. I want these assholes in Texas to explain how this is going to affect them. It's beyond cruel...I'm so pissed off.
Somewhere in Iran and Texas the Ayatollah and KKKRISTIAN RIGHT have teamed up to subjugate women again and again and again
Its barbaric and primitive. Damn it. When will this end? 😭
When the women of Texas, and all the other Red States, VOTE THEM OUT!! Voting Blue is the only way for the Freedom of Women to continue!
That also has to take into account that not only the Supreme Court is bought and paid for, but also State Supreme Courts. Point in case, without mentioning names Florida?
I wish it were that easy. In 2003. the Republiscum in TX finally got a majority in the lege for the first time since the Civil War (if I remember right, that was because W was president and 9/11 9/11 9/11) and they took the opportunity to fuck up voting and voting districts beyond all recognition. True, for statewide elections (like for gov & US senator) only the final vote total counts, but gerrymandering isn't just about the number of voters by party in a district, it's also about being able to treat voters in some areas differently.
In rural counties, which are mostly red, you don't have to stand in line, miss work if it's crowded, park quite a distance away or find accomodation for disabilities, or deal with all the other obstacles to voting. In Texas, the districts that are bigger/more liberal get WAY fewer resources and a lot of restrictions, like number and convenience of polling places and election workers, how many days of early voting there are -- in fact, the lege and other state officials go out of their way to make voting in places like Houston as hard as possible without inconveniencing any of the 65 voters in a rural county.
If you want to know how a perennially-indicted, impeached state attorney general can stay in office even after a number of credible accusations of criminal behavior made by staunch conservative state attorneys who once worked for him, this is a good part of how you do it.
Totally. I recall the Democrat woman governor but can't recall her name now. Texas wasn't gerrymandered than and neither was my home state of Wisconsin. The "plan" of republican power hasn't always had this agenda but that twisted minority has worked hard to change their status from crazy to what it is now, evil.
Ann Richards. She was great! (There have only been two women who were Texas governors, and the other one was Ma Ferguson, in the 1920s-30s.
I think what probably made Ann Richards most famous was the keynote speech at the 1988 DNC convention, when she very effectively skewered George HW Bush, then in a perfect, classic "bless his little heart" moment said, "Poor George, he just can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
Texas Monthly magazine did this great cover of her in the '90s, wearing white fringed leathers and matching cowboy boots, on a Harley -- all photoshopped, but absolutely believable, given who she was. We could sure use her help right now.
I still think the MAGA/GQP cheat so much in Texas that it's virtually impossible for anything good to happen. They're never worried about elections in Texas or Kentucky...I've always wondered why.
They do cheat. How do you think Ted Cruz manages to hang onto his seat? No one in Texas likes him very much.
He's up for reelection next year. Unfortunately, since Gov Dr Evil Hot Wheels has executed a hostile takeover of Harris Co elections this year (i.e. most of Houston) our chances of getting rid of him in 2024 are even slimmer. I'm hoping he'll go back to Cancun and get kidnapped or something, maybe held for ransom (which no one would actually want to pay because he might come back). But it would be just our luck the kidnappers couldn't stand him either.
I can't believe Texans had the chance to elect someone like Beto instead of Cruz or Abbott and didn't do it. If I lived there I'd be so heartbroken I couldn't stand it. I really feel for anyone who lives there; I'd be at my wit's end!
And I will never believe that Beto O'Rourke did not win that election. It was almost like, from the start of the candidacy, Abbott didn't campaign much so seemed like he had it "wrapped up" illegally. Beto won.
When people quit voting for Republicans and clean up SCOTUS.
Cleaning up easier said than done.
We still have to try and the best way to start is at the ballot box to elect people willing to fight any corruption or right wing extremist individuals.
You’re so right. We have to try. And keep trying.
Completely agree.
When we refuse to let them.
Susan,
When we get all women to vote the reps out of office.
You mean the Kristian Taliban, right?
I cry when I'm angry. I'm crying. These men-gods repulse me. I'd guess most men don't know how the female body/pregnancy works. Clearly Paxton doesn't. He'd rather see women die than to tread on the flag of Texas.
Tread on the flag of Texas. I don't quite understand. How does allowing abortions "tread on the flag of Texas?" When there are so many children without homes, and it turns into a crisis, maybe then, and the children suffer. That's the saddest part. Forcing women to give birth when they are not ready to become a mother. It's not fair to the children who are forced into Foster care or adoptions. Men do not have the right to tell a woman what she can and can't do. He can walk away without a care in the world. She can't.
He doesn’t want a WOMAN to tread on the flag of Texas. Texas has abortion laws. He would rather see her die than have an abortion. I certainly believe that every woman should make her own choice, and not be ruled by the government. I, myself, made that choice many years ago.
Thank you for explaining. My parent gave me the choice when I was 17 years old. I chose to keep her, but they gave me the choice. I had a best girlfriend, Patti, when we were early senior year, she got pregnant, her parents were Republicans, they MADE HER GET AN ABORTION. The hypocrisy is mindblowing. You are against abortions until it happens to your daughter. She didn't want an abortion. A few years later she married a different man, stayed married for over 35 years (cancer got the best of her, several years ago). She miscarried her first born, she always felt like the abortion had something to do with it. She was blessed with 3 amazing boys, men now. I will always support abortion. Girls, woman, it is their choice.
You were blessed to have parents who supported you. It’s difficult to read stories like what your friend went through. Your comment, “You are against abortions until it happens to your daughter” is powerful. I appreciate your passion.
Fuck Paxton.
that shaking part, yes!!!! I'm turning into a rageaholic on this topic. How the fuck they dare. If this isn't a clear message to women what the far right thinks of us, there's nothing left for them to say. WE HATE YOU BECAUSE.....
They've taken the next step by putting a woman's life in danger. The far right doesnt give a flying F about women. Gotta vote, vote, vote.
They apparently don't give a flying f*** about doctors or hospitals either. They've quickly gone from wanting to preserve all life to criminally threatening professionals.
Well, being pro-life in Texas does have some limits, like birth. Post-birth, Republiscum don't really care so much about babies. Also, they don't have any trouble helping an immigrant get an involuntary abortion via wired-together saw blades as she crosses the Rio Grande.
I hate SO MUCH about this place, I really do. Excuse me while I go do some breathing exercises and try to calm the fuck down.
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Care? Do they have a clue about that word in regard to us, the poor, anybody not them?
An extension of power just like rape is all about control and power. The same issue with domestic violence. How do women get away or protect themselves with these kind of laws?
My BP just spiked. I’m seething with fury.
The cruelty is the point! The patriarchy is losing power so they’re trying anything they can do to get it back.
It's about control. They view women as property.
Sick Fuks.
Me, too! It is barbaric...and that asshole Ken Paxton has the fucking nerve to comment on any subject, especially this, when he should be in jail! I pray some day, that if there IS a God she strikes down at least one of these cretins so that the rest of them will think before they continue this bullshit!!!!
I sometimes wish women would “wake the fuck up”. I dream of the day - the Rosa Parks moment - where women say “ENOUGH!!”
Does it have to be a stray bullet?
I cant agree with you enough, Janet. This might be one of the most heinous stories to come out of Texas so far. If there was a GoFund me to help with legal fees, I'd contribute. Dems better get out ahead of this and make it a central story. Horrendous.
I told this story but I will tell it again here - because stupid men like those Republicans supporting this need to hear it. My mother was pregnant in 1958 (pre-Roe) with a much wanted child. The nursery was set up. I was 2 years old. My father was running the family company for his father. At 9 months - yes - that 9 months the Republicans keep talking about - the fetus died inside of her from a premature placental separation. She couldn’t get the dead baby removed because the doctors were being threatened just like Kevin Paxton is threatening these doctors. She fortunately passed the dead baby before she went septic. But for years all I heard was how the doctors made her carry a dead baby inside her for 2 weeks. My father became PRO-CHOICE as soon as Roe became law. Those doctors had almost cost him his beautiful young wife and would have left him a widower with a 2 year old daughter in the 50ies, while he was trying to keep people employed - all for a dead baby!!! When God said be fruitful and multiply - the woman has to stay alive to have more children. After my mother’s experience the women in my family always went to Jewish gynecologists because in the Jewish religion the life of the woman is more important than any one child. The Catholic Church and some others put the life of the child over mother - but that leaves the father with a dead wife and possibly other children to raise alone. Men should be just as angry at Ken Paxton for interfering with their family’s and threatening the lives of the women they love.
God said nothing of the kind, some fucked up man said God said that.
The bible was written by humans. Period.
Lorraine: I am not going to argue Genesis with you. The Republicans are using the Bible to sway vulnerable Evangelicals to their “cause” despite being liars. The story stands. I don’t have children but I bred horses for years. The life of the mare was more important than any one foal. My mother had two more children. That female Texas judge seemed disgusted that the State was interfering. My point is that the Texas Atty General isn’t just interfering on that woman’s right to her life, he is also interfering on the husband’s right to his family and his wife. What is of more importance to most Americans than their families.
Did I say I wanted to argue? It's my belief and opinion which is not up for debate.
Agree. So much blood shed and corruption done in the name of God.
I’ve seen the horror of unwanted children in a hospital up here in Massachusetts it’s rocked me to the core for 50years, I m choking up now as I write,this could get a little long. I was going to visit my 2 future brother in laws at one of the state hospitals in south eastern Mass. .Both had Duchenes Muscular Dystrophy ,good guys ,great attitudes about the shitty hands nature had dealt them,this was the 1st time I had seen them there.Anyway As I entered the hospital there was an open area in the lobby where several kids were lying on blankets in a caged play spot, the poor little things were covered in vomit,shit ,piss and covered with flies,2 of them were co- joined at thier heads,that were shaped like footballs of enormous size,the staff was doing their best to keep them clean,and cool,but they couldn’t keep up with the task, they didn’t have the funds to do it any better than they were doing (state hospital) this was the end of the Nam era,and I thought I’d seen the worst of what damage the human body could handle and live with,the guys coming back from that obscenity of Viet Nam would have been shocked.The 2 kids I mentioned weren’t the worst,and the fucken place was filled with them.I’m a 6’3” 240 pound city guy and I couldn’t stop crying,The staff had to get me to a chair to keep me from hitting the deck, fuck I’m crying now remembering that scene from Hell.When I got my shit straight I asked one staff member What was the reason they were all there together,she told me they were all abandoned from all over the state,they were found in dumpsters ,sewers,thrown from over passes, all kinds of places were garbage was thrown.she said that most of them had been there since they were babies,she said that back in the 60’s it was much much worse many more than now,this is the mid70’s.she added the lifting of the abortion laws had greatly affected the situation.To make a long story longer I’ll add that I was told that a good percentage of the damaged babies they were caring for now were left by their mothers who had no choice,they couldn’t afford or provide for their children they were giving up,they had others to take care for.The point of this tragic story is that abortion is a necessary procedure for millions of people who are so completely ignored by the government and it’s middle age bullshit laws, regulations and lack of compassion that they have nowhere to turn in a life threatening situation that completely ignores their existence,until one of their holier than thou (we know what’s best for you laws) is broken,Know what Fuck You you fucken hypocrites you fucken idiots you should have to live with the consequences of the laws you made for others you fucken self righteous monsters you should be ashamed of yourself and what these laws have done to good people’s lives and the poor kids that suffer because of them.If I knew Gods existence was fact I’d pray to him ,her ,it that YOU and your fucken self righteous asses fried in Hell .
The last shall be first and the first shall be last
What you do unto the least of these so you do unto Me
Totally agree. Thanks for sharing.
Kay, your story is so prevalent given the state of SCOTUS now with the majority of justices being Catholics. That is by design by none other than Leonard Leo and his ilk. Truly our only hope is that Biden expands the court and gives these criminals a run for their millions/billions.
It’s why our separation of church and state is so important. I have had a Near Death Experience. I saw Heaven and no one is going to convince me otherwise. However, having seen and experienced the love of Heaven, I know what the Republicans are pushing is wrong. It is against what Jesus actually preached. This country was formed by people who desired to escape forced religion their ancestors experienced.
Thank you for sharing your story. And you are absolutely right.
The life expectancy of a baby girl born in 1900 was 49 years. A baby girl born in 2000 has a life expectancy of 80.
Several things contribute including vaccines, antibiotics, and better pre/post-natal care and modern medical care of pregnant women, including abortion.
They should be.
Many are.
Thank you Jeff.
So great that what should be a private medical decision between a woman and her physician can now include lawyers, Greg F’ing Abbott, Greg’s corrupt piece of garbage AG Texas State government, judges, journalists, and everyone else.
Way to go Texas.
All of these men, especially in Tex-ass, can go straight to hell. Fuck them.
X 10000000000
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." - Gloria Steinhem
That is the great wake up call of our current situation.
Well, this certainly strengthens my long held resolve to Never Live In Texas. Anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, for that matter.
I hope that this is a temporary insanity, and that future generations will restore women's rights. I know that's weak sauce, but honestly, the young 'uns do give me hope.
I'm with you...I shudder to even think about driving past the Mason Dixon line. I'm so angry and frustrated about this. The younger voter is critical -I hope they are paying attention.
My husband and I had long planned to go to Austin but I won’t spend a dime in that state. In fact, with the spike in antisemitic activity everywhere, going south of the Mason-Dixon would be too dangerous. The irony is, we’re completely secular - just like the majority of German Jews in Auschwitz and Dachau.
That is the exact attitude we all should tske
I just got back from Austin and the F1 race, spent a week there, great place,great people,great everything.
Very narrow minded government
Austin is like an island floating in a cesspool where even alligators will not go. New Orleans is the same. Our new governor elect does not want to let the resurrection of our antique water system in New Orleans to go forward until women are prosecuted here for having abortions. It is that specific. Sounds like Tuberville with the military, which we will point out over and over and rub in until his skin bleeds, You Got Nothing For All That Tubs except enemies.
It's not normal, but somehow i think that if you survive 24, the changes necessary to move America forward will come about. Slowly but surely, but also with great resistance.
And some body should ask the federal government to look into Jackson Mississippi's water "issues" as well.
absolutely.
Yes!!! Janet!
It is Racist, and Abhorant.
This is where the Federal Government needs to step in and make it right.
This is a Civil Rights issue , please note i am not a lawyer. So dont quote me Please.
I think why I Am so up to date on the goings on in the US, is because i take akn interest in things US. We are inundated? Up here with US news day in day out.
I have cable so PBS and BBC, And all major TV networks. Newspapers.
And on top of that i love America
I may not agree with everything that goes on down there, but what never ever gets said is that Americans by and large are GOOD PEOPLE.
PS: The Jackson Mississippi's Water problem was featured on what else ?
60 minutes.
Born and raised New Orleanian here, currently living in Chicago.
While there are many reasons I'll never move back, the fact that Louisiana has become such a BLOODY RED state (along with the rest of the Gulf Coast), is a big one. And Christ on a pogo stick, I had no idea Landry felt that way about the water.
Landry is a full-on MAGA Trump loving corrupt to the core Republican. And I feel quite sure he despises everything about New Orleans. They've always been pissed off about us there.
Yeah I knew he was sucking on Orange Turd's wee little peeny. Him and Mr new Speaker of the House. And what's her face on the SC.
Not ALL of the bad states are below the Mason Dixon line. Indiana is one…
I say no south of the M-D Line or west of the Ohio River.
huh? West of the Ohio?
Oregon, Colorado, Washington, Arizona and Cali all have enlightened urban areas, it's the rural counties that elect morons like Paul Gossar and Kevin McCarthy.
It’s creeping north. Seen what New Hampshire is doing with abortion rights for their women and girls?
I sincerely would like to ask... Why do they give you hope?
The only hope is that normal Republicans are seeing this and looking at their daughters. A seed of doubt is beginning to enter their Swiss cheese brains.
The young people I know are over the issues that older generations struggle with. They just take it for granted that love is love, and I see less racism among them. For example.
If Democrats don't get their acts together and start making sure every woman and girl in the Country hears of these atrocities, these patriarchs will win. We need a big enough win - up and down the ballot - to change things. Because if they win, we will be living in The Republic of Gilead.
They could start by paying Jeff for this column and reprinting it in digital and paper advertising as needed. Because political marketing is mainly only occurring in one direction successfully right now - Republican propaganda media to the ignorant masses.
Excellent comment!!! Agree completely!
Hillary Clinton and her supporters were SCREAMING from the rooftops that Roe v. Wade was on the ballot in 2016. So-called "progressives" like Bernie said Planned Parenthood was the "establishment" and that being a woman wasn't a legitimate reason to vote for HRC and called it "identity politics." So-called "progressives" like Susan Fucking Sarandon told us HRC was a "warmonger" and told people to vote for Jill Fucking Stein instead (who's back trying to fuck things up again). All the while, the media was constantly yelling "but her emails!" while we watched our constitutional right to control our own bodies circling the fucking drain.
Hillary Clinton and her supporters were right about EVERY. FUCKING. THING. As I've said a thousand times, I will die mad about it, rise from the grave, and die mad about it again.
can't tell you how many times in 2016 I said "the supreme court is at stake" and got "I don't know, I just don't like her" as a response. it's maddening to think back on it
It's fucking infuriating.
Yes, Jeff you did warn us! Shame a lot of people didn’t listen and now here we are! 😢
No one fucking listens to truth
And facts never change anyone’s mind.
Or,Trump? Are you fucking kidding a serial bankrupt with no experience?? Ah, the last recession, near depression was only 8 ago and you want this broke phoney running the country?
And, NOW? You want more? Sure, Donny 2-books...
Slapping my forehead.
I couldn't have said it better myself. And then after losing the 2016 election, we were supposed to get out there and go to their 'protests'. FFS.
Amen!
Harm to the state? WTAF? No judge should be put in the middle of a decision between a woman and her doctor, but this is Texas and the powers that be care little about Texan women. Fuck Ken Paxton and the horse he rode in on.
I expected that sentence to end with the only harm would be to the unborn fetus. When I read "harm to the STATE", my jaw literally dropped. Also, that state attorney needs to learn to spell Jonathan and, as somebody once said, "get the "h" out of there." Kidding, but I do find that annoying. I like the name Jonathan and I like the usual spelling of it better than sticking an unnecessary letter in there.
Does Ken Paxton have the power to over rule a Judge? Any Judge?
In the great state of absolute fuckery we call Texas, Ken Paxton (and Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ted Cruz, and the list goes on) thinks he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
I wonder why sometimes lawyers get a bad rap
Really, I get that they work for any client that will pay them good money, and no moral principles are involved - after all, you need money to live in America! - but what gets me is that the law schools still go through the motions of having a legal ethics course.
Good god I hate these fucking assholes. Wife and I got the trisomy 18 diagnosis 30 years ago. Living in that liberal bastion of 1990s Arizona we were able to terminate and everything about the diagnosis and the abortion was awful. I can't imagine what this couple is going through. In public with their state government gunning for them. If Arizona can go blue (well, purple) then Texas can too. Vote these assholes out.
Arizonan here thank God for purple, a most welcome recent development in a still ruby-red (in the sticks) place.
Who the FUCK do they think they are????🤬 (I need to stop swearing!)
I don't think you swear enough. I may be biased
I’ll work on it! 🤣
Some people count steps they take in a day, I count the amount of fucks rolling off my tongue or written on the page. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Ah, much better.
lol
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I swear every other fucking word. I have zero fucks to give with these handmaiden tale bullshit brigade. My Give A Shit Meter is on EMPTY
Don't you dare stop. Us potty-mouthed girls need to stick together.
Fuck ya
My conservative Republican ex-husband didn't like swearing 🙄 So now I sound like a sailor with Tourette's
But that's why we like you!
KEEP FUCKING GOING you republican ghouls. Come 2024, Women and gen z are gonna vote you cunts into oblivion. FUCK YOU
Fuck to the HELL YES 🙌🏽 Booyah 🙌🏽
Harm to the state? Let’s talk harm to that baby, who, by all accounts, if it is born will die an excruciating death. Nice pro-life thing they’ve got going on there.
Yes, I pointed this out yesterday on another site. The baby will die in agony and they don't care and yet one of their main talking (screaming) points against abortion is that the fetus can feel pain. Well, better the brief pain of an abortion than the agony of dying over the course of hours, possibly days.
They're not pro-life. They're pro-zygote
I think you may be right. I also think this is less about a zygote, a fetus, or a baby and more about a population of men who resent that a woman or a woman’s body can make a decision about what he believes he has created. I clearly remember the days when a woman needed her husband’s permission to get birth control. Her body, her potential belonged exclusively to him.
They also couldn't get a credit card, a car loan, or a mortgage without a male cosigner.
Yep. That’s the life I lived. First question in my first real job interview: when are you planning on starting a family?
I had to get my husband’s Permission to have my tubes tied after my second baby. I did not want more children because I had figured out I would probably end up a single parent.
Oh boy!
Yeah, illegal as hell now, thank goodness.
Not even pro-zygote. They're pro-control of women. Insecure, power-hungry, misogynistic mother-fuckers!!! Texas used to be a decent place - glad I moved out!
Two comments...
If a farmer has a cow that is endangered by a pregnancy with a compromised lethal diagnosis calf, he does not have to consult a judge before the veterinarian takes care of it so the cow does not die and may have calves in the future. Women are being relegated to positions BELOW cattle in their rights.
If they want to prosecute everyone for abortions, then the fathers should also be met with consequences, and at the very least lose their reproductive organs like these women might. (OK this father and other caring parents etc are not my point, my point is that the men making babies bear no issue at all, rapists, asshats, and all)
FFS! My new billboard for when I win the lottery:
Cows have more rights than Texas women!
JFC. Cows. I'm madder now. FUCK TEXAS.
Exactly my point!
This is a great! Your words are exactly how this should be explained to them. Why are women’s reproductive rights less than that of animal (example; cow)? This would be something that I know would make some people uncomfortable, however, it would make them stop and think about it.
Sense we believe that we are more superior to animals! It would it at the core of their minds. Please get it out on all social media platforms! Please!!! 🙏🏾
Please excuse the mess as my head exploded when I read Paxton’s statement. Cox proved her case (which itself is a travesty), but apparently there really is no exception. Since it’s too late for Paxton to be aborted, I suggest a lobotomy.
It’s time to abort the Republican Party.
I had something worse in mind.
Me too.
🤣 You bad.