Feminism
The Birth Dearth: The Sad but True Reason Why What’s Happening in Texas Right Now Shouldn’t Surprise You
It was always going to end this way
Snitches get riches in Texas nowadays. The Lone Star state’s new anti-reproductive freedom act empowers friends, neighbors and co-workers to sue anyone that “induces…aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.”
The actual person receiving the abortion can’t be sued. But the doctor who performed it, the would-be baby daddy who paid for it, and your bestie that drove you to the clinic are all fair game. Even a Lyft or Uber driver could find themselves on the wrong end of a civil suit. The law says that if the suit is successful, the court can award no less than $10,000 plus court costs to the plaintiff.
A lot of women (and a few men) are clutching their pearls over this, shocked that it could happen in America. I’m not one of them.
Unlike Game of Thrones, the Texas law is a logical conclusion for the American story we’ve been telling since Roe vs. Wade.
By the 80s, the abortion debate intersected with one of America’s most pressing issues at the time — changing demographics. That’s right, people were losing their shit over the browning of America long…
