Posted on 10/06/2021 6:13:16 PM PDT by Morgana
I’m a Texas abortion provider. Since the state’s new anti-abortion law – known as Senate Bill 8 – went into effect three weeks ago, my job transformed from physician to dystopian travel agent for a journey that, for most of my patients, will probably never happen.
SB8 is not just a set of roadblocks but rather a near-total ban on abortion. Politicians have rendered abortion care impossible to access for people who can’t afford to travel hundreds of miles out of state. Many of those who can’t get an abortion will be pushed deeper into poverty as a result.
I’ve written previously about the ways that the US, and Texas especially, segregates care by class and race. This abortion ban is no exception: wealthy Texans will find the means to obtain safe abortion care, as they always have. But patients I care for, who are mostly low-income and people of color, can’t afford enormous travel expenses to get medical care. They can’t afford to take multiple days off work, usually without pay. They can’t afford the additional childcare or elder care. They can’t afford the gas money, or the bus fare. They can’t afford a safe place to sleep overnight. These costs are on top of the actual fee for the procedure, often $500 or more out of pocket, a sum that for many patients takes weeks or months to save. Most of my patients now can’t afford to get an abortion – but they also can’t afford not to.
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"if abortions are so good for women, why aren't they free?" --Carol Everett former abortion clinic owner, now prolife.
Hell awaits these monsters pretending to be doctors.
Racist, Eugenicist.
Murderer is what he is. Killing the most innocent and defenseless so their stupid selfish parents can keep effing around.
“Patients”? That’s a good one!
“They can’t afford a safe place to sleep overnight. These costs are on top of the actual fee for the procedure, often $500 or more out of pocket, a sum that for many patients takes weeks or months to save.”
Years ago they told us free birth control was necessary. Why didn’t that work.
Next it will be a new Cadillac.
I understand his argument, I really do. However, the problem is not one of availability of abortions, but MORALITY. Why are you getting pregnant without wanting to be pregnant? That question must be answered. Seems like a lot of folks (HE said they were people of color, not me) seem to be having wanton sex just for pleasure without being married and then are upset over the consequences. Stop having irresponsible sex, THAT is the answer for EVERYONE doing this. Oh, and rich folks, you won’t be able to buy your way out of hell.
Dear “Doctor” … you are a professional hit man leading a medical lynch mob.
He’s furious low income family babies and babies “of color” can’t be killed as readily as before.
This statement just begs for a response. How about getting married to Dick the Wanderer and sleeping as a married woman at his residence?
Whatever the financial or other hardship cost to a woman who can’t get an abortion, none of it outweighs the atrocity of savagely murdering an innocent human baby.
If they cant afford all these other things, then they should be “investing” in a condom or not having sex.
His family name is Eichmann? Oops! Dickman! My mistake...
Oh gee.
They can’t murder babies any more.
Cry me a river.
Good Observation, LOL.
God is really going to have to come back soon. Everything’s upside down and we cannot get it set back right on our own.
And the people so desperate to murder their unborn babies.
Don’t forget them.
They are the only ones who can legally decide in this country, its 100% on them.
It’s funny that she doesn’t seem to realize that abortion isn’t banned in the state of Texas and it still legal.
But then that wouldn’t push the narrative.
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