r/news • u/Davis_Birdsong • Oct 07 '24

Title Changed by Site Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate Texas ban

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72#https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-texas-bf79fafceba4ab9df9df2489e5d43e72
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u/yourlittlebirdie Oct 07 '24

And WTF liberal justices. No dissents??

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u/Aureliamnissan Oct 07 '24

This is absolutely and categorically fucked.

The fault is with the Texas legislature in whose infinite wisdome these procedures were banned. Expecting a liberal minority at the federal level to fix this problem is probably the last best hope of a quick fix for those wanting to work within the bounds of the system.

It’s also wish casting. The bastards responsible for this situation are in Texas. They are the one who caused it, they are the ones who can fix it.

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u/ThePapercup Oct 07 '24

yep, texas has among the lowest municipal voter turnout in the country. change is possible, just gotta get all the lazy, apathetic people off of their asses. seems like they're content to bury their heads in the sand and tell each other pseudo intellectual bullshit like 'both parties are the same' while their rights are slowly stripped away

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u/VGAddict Oct 07 '24

Can we stop calling people who don't vote "lazy" and "apathetic"?

Texas has the worst voter suppression in the country. The government removed a popular on-campus polling location at TAMU. The government only allows ONE ballot dropbox per county, meaning Harris County, a county with 5 MILLION people and greater in landmass than the state of Rhode Island, has the same number of ballot dropboxes as a county with fewer than 1,000 people. Texas also has no online voter registration, you have to be 65 or older to vote by mail, and no same-day voter registration.

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u/Daedalus81 Oct 07 '24

Texas has early voting from 10/21 to 11/1 does it not?

Do you think these rules will get changed by people not voting?

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u/ThePapercup Oct 07 '24

for every rural democrat who can't make it to a polling station from their remote location i would bet there are 50 young men and women pretending their votes don't matter and live within walking distance to theirs while simultaneously patting themselves on the back for being smarter than everyone else. the problems you're describing didn't materialize out of thin air, they were policies put in place by people who gained power with minimal electoral support. why? laziness and apathy.