TX mixes hypocrisy/politics, GOODHAIR luckiest ever, the anti-Choice law = "medical tourism"/Mexico
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SO convoluted, let's see whether I can wrap my head around it:
Vociferous Rethugs in TX, alternately whipping up and cowering-to 6% of the state's population, ram through an anti-Choice law, using Fundamentalist religiosity as a main tool. Also, the state enjoys some BABBITry reputation for economic success, ignoring that proximity to Mexico means cheap labor plus trade partnership as the basis for that success (not Rethug policies). While ALSO indulging in both the Mexico-partnership WHILE whipping Mexico with the wingnut HYSTERIA about "border security." So the wingnuts do their usual: Imposing on and interfering in private lives while yapping against Big Brother. But the final flourish with Rethugs is: CASHING IN. Remember that "alternative surgery" Governor GOODHAIR zealously booked for himself sometime during the Clown Campaign he ran? There were observations that such kind of fringe medical procedures could be the basis for another industry for the low regulation/low taxes state: "medical TOURISM." I don't doubt that GOODHAIR, the future GOODHAIR's successor Greg ABBOTT ("
GOODHAIR) without the charm or charisma"
, and the legislative and denominational wingnuts already have a financial network on the "medical tourism" right across the border in Mexico for cashing in on the "abortion pill."
GOODHAIR has been noted to be one of the luckiest creeps ever: He skated through his entire "career": A slub in background. Lucked into being Shrub's understudy, inheriting the job. Lucked into elections and re-elections with miniscule votes. Blessed with a soon-to-be-majority/Minority population (Hispanics) that DOESN'T VOTE and a tiny 6% wingnut VOTING population. His true calling is yet to come: Sales rep for the medical tourism industry.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/us/in-mexican-pill-a-texas-option-for-an-abortion.html?_r=0
[font size=5]A Pill Available in Mexico Is a Texas Option for Abortion[/font]
McALLEN, Tex. — At the Whole Woman’s Health center here, a young woman predicted what others would do if the state’s stringent new abortion bill approved late Friday forces clinics like this one to close: cross the border to Mexico to seek an “abortion pill.”....
“The women see it as “a pill to make my period come,’” said Andrea Ferrigno, a vice president of Whole Woman’s Health, which runs a network of abortion clinics. “Often in their minds, it’s not abortion.” ....
State Senator Glenn Hegar, a Republican and the chief sponsor of the bill in the Senate, said it was not his intent to close abortion clinics, “but to increase the quality of the care.”
Opponents argue that the restrictions are actually intended to put financial pressure on the clinics that perform abortions and will force most of them to shut their doors. ....
Lacking health insurance or fearing the stigma of being seen at an abortion clinic, thousands of Texas residents every year are already making covert use of this pill or trying other methods to induce abortions on their own, according to Dr. Dan Grossman, an obstetrician in the San Francisco Bay Area and vice president of Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit research group.
When used properly in the early weeks of pregnancy, misoprostol, which causes uterine contractions and cervical dilation, induces a miscarriage about 85 percent of the time, according to Dr. Grossman. But many women receive incorrect advice on dosage and, especially later in pregnancy, the drug can cause serious bleeding or a partial abortion, he said. ...
(a re-post/refresher: )
Written by Harold Cook, Letters From Texas is a humorous look at politics and current events, as seen through the eyes of a progressive Texan in a bad mood. - See more at: http://www.lettersfromtexas.com/2013/06/the-six-percent.html#sthash.I4PjqRBQ.bBxIATAp.dpuf
http://www.lettersfromtexas.com/2013/06/the-six-percent.html
[font size=5]The six percent[/font]
By Harold Cook
Today’s (06-25-13) a big day for Democrats in the state legislature. And at the end of the day, they’ll probably think they won a big one.
Thankfully, they’re working hard to kill a bill which, if it passed, would be among the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. In fact it’s probably unconstitutional. ....
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Republican officeholders are terrified of their own primary voters[/FONT]. Aside from the stray post-redistricting election here and there, the vast majority of Republican incumbents who lose their re-election efforts do so in the Republican primary – in most district elections and statewide, Democrats have been little threat to them. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]The pro-life(sic) stance in the abortion debate is the big motivating issue for only one voting segment: Republican primary voters[/FONT].
So who are these voters? Of the 25 million people who live in Texas, it amounts to fewer than 1.5 million people. That’s about [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]six percent of Texans[/FONT].
Six percent. That’s the entire audience Republican officeholders are playing to, while [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the other 94 percent of Texans look on as spectators to this sham. That six percent are also the folks who have been electing all the statewide officeholders around here for almost 20 years[/FONT], since the only two things a candidate has to do to get elected statewide in Texas are to win in the Republican primary, and to not get hit by a bus until after the general election. The safety and liberty of Texas women is being sold down the river for the sake of that six percent. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]The legitimately important issues of concern to mainstream Texas families stay on the back burner for the sake of the six percent[/FONT]. And virtually all the public utterances of the Republican leadership in Texas are aimed squarely at attracting the six percent. And that’s exactly how things will continue around here until Democrats win a statewide election, and Republicans suddenly remember [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the other 94 percent. There are 23.5 million Texans Republicans haven’t had a conversation with in 20 years[/FONT]. But the longer Republicans pander to their precious six percent, the more likely it is that Democrats will be back in the game sooner rather than later. The lack of leadership around here isn’t indicated by Republicans mishandling the clock. It’s best indicated by them ignoring the 94 percent. Thank the House Democrats for their amazing round-the-clock efforts in the last few days in slowing down this legislation. Be grateful for the Senate Democrats standing strong and united yesterday in blocking the rule suspension which would have greased this bill through. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Cheer on Senator Wendy Davis today as she hopefully carries the ball over the finish line and kills this bill[/FONT]. But then, after all that, don’t be surprised when the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Republicans immediately call a do-over, and legislators are back in Austin for a second special session. Because, dear 94 percenters - the other six percent must be catered to.[/FONT]
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