I still firmly stand behind my policy proposal that all rugged individualists be beaten to death with a stick

They probably love this

I'd be amazed if they haven't already

These are the sorts of comments I actively look for lol

Oh wait, this is Hexbear. Nice!

One must imagine this works like the "Are you a terrorist" immigration question in the US where it's just there to punish you more severely after you got caught by whatever nightmare texas law allows someone to collect bounties by kidnapping women from abortion clinics or something

"Pregnant women may only enter cars when it is driven by a husband or direct male relative."

Something that was brought up in the meeting I was at last night is that neighbors gonna snitch. You see your neighbor is pregnant, then you see they are no longer pregnant after a long weekend out of town, in other words. Pearl clutching ensues.

Now realistically most people that seek abortions aren't even showing at the time they decide to terminate the pregnancy so yeah the whole fucking thing is stupid.

I'm no anatomy knower but I can see this backfiring on people who suffer from miscarriages after they are showing that they are carrying baby weight though since the panhandle is extremely religious and conservative.

They find out who had an abortion and then "build a case" backwards from there. Like slapping using a computer to commit a crime. Like who doesn't use a computer to do basic tasks in society. But it's just a punishment multiplier.

How could it hold up in court who knows, but until that's challenged those people remain in jail.

the law is there to add leverage for the state for when they start catching and charging people for getting abortions out of state

It's partially a chilling effect thing, partially a threat, and partially the state has very invasive surveillance.

they're just going to ban pregnant people in general from driving?

No. No. Your Lathe access is cut off!

Texas women prohibited from leaving the house without a male relative, whether pregnant or not.

station officers outside of abortion clinics in neighboring states looking for TX plates and have them phone APBs home

Yeah, it would be so difficult to apply in a fair and reasonable way. Who knows what's next? All suspected uterus-havers on house arrest in case they get pregnant? Shit's bad. They're also building a wall across the entire US-Mexico border. It's not just to keep immigrants out, it's to keep capital's "breeding stock" in trapped in the united states. Bad things are happening and it's going to get worse.

How do you even enforce this law?

Well on its own you probably can't but a couple more laws, ip address warrants and/or tech advancement could make this very scary for women very quickly, and that's not even thinking hard on it

Too noisy

back alley abortions

highway abortions

Levity aside, fuck Texas.

I tell ya the lathe emote at phone resolution really looks like Vince Gilligan putting a burger king crown on Will Ferrell

i couldn't either and the relief i feel from leaving that shithole is very real.

The ones who can afford to leave aren't nearly as affected by this as the ones who can't, unfortunately.