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Blame the Abortion Lobby for Texas

Did Planned Parenthood’s obsession with trans activism distract them from the abortion ban?

By FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez

On 1 September, the state of Texas began implementing the most severe abortion restrictions in the United States, through a series of measures that prohibited the practice after the first six weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme Court, following a 5-4 vote, refused to intervene.

Most women don’t know they are pregnant at this stage, which leaves them in the invidious (and now unlawful) position of either seeking back-alley abortions or going to another state. The measures introduced this week also estipulate that anybody helping a woman obtain an abortion — including family members, friends or service providers — can be sued by private individuals for up to $10,000 (£7,200).

Giving girls forty times their normal testosterone level is not most people’s ideas of a feminist organisation

In effect, the law is encouraging ordinary people to study the bodies of child-bearing aged girls and women in Texas for signs of growing bellies and swelling breasts… and the disappearance of those signs. This is a dystopian nightmare…

Read the full article on The Critic.