Apologies if this is not allowed, but if you are a person in Texas who needs access to reproductive healthcare or want to help those who do, here are some resources:
Resources for Texans seeking access to healthcare:
https://wrrap.org/about-wrrap/
If you need help getting an abortion:
these sites offer access to abortion pills, even in Texas. Please be safe and be aware of clinics (e.g. Crisis Pregnancy Centers) that give out dangerous misinformation on abortions and pregnancy.
If you want to give money to some pro-choice charities, try here:
https://fundtexaschoice.org/ - The Dallas-based nonprofit Fund Texas Choice assists Texas residents with lodging and transportation expenses to abortion clinics in and out of state. It also provides information on organizations that can help with funding the procedure.
https://www.laslibres.org/ - Las Libres is a Mexican feminist organization that supports women seeking abortions and control of their own bodies; this now includes those who contact them from the United States.
https://teafund.org/ - Texas Equal Access Fund provides funding to low-income people in the north, east, and Panhandle regions of Texas who can’t afford an abortion. It also offers emotional support through a confidential text line, support group, and virtual clinic companion program.
https://janesdueprocess.org/ - Jane’s Due Process helps young Texans navigate parental-consent laws and confidentially access abortion and birth control. It offers Texas teens and young people free legal support, one-on-one case management, and a text line for those needing information on birth control and family-planning services without parental involvement.
https://www.lilithfund.org/ - The Lilith Fund, an Austin-based nonprofit, provides direct financial assistance to Texans in central and southern regions of the state who need an abortion. It also offers an emotional-support hotline.
https://www.theafiyacenter.org/ - The Afiya Center, or TAC for short, is a reproductive-justice organization in North Texas that provides refuge, education, and other resources to Black women. The center has its own “economic enrichment campaign” focused on funding projects for women of color living with HIV/AIDS (and those at risk). It also supports programs that are providing abortion access in the state.
https://thebridgecollective.org/ - The Bridge Collective serves central Texans by offering transportation to abortion clinics for people within 100 miles of Austin. It also provides free reproductive-health resource kits to those who are within 30 miles of Austin. The kits include Plan B, pregnancy tests, condoms, and information on sexual and reproductive health.
https://avowtexas.org/ - Avow (which was previously NARAL Pro-Choice Texas) fights for abortion rights through community building, education, and political advocacy. The Avow Foundation funds research, public education, organizing, and more to educate Texans on the importance of abortion access.
More here: 20 Organizations Fighting the Texas Abortion Ban
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If you need to come to my area (Bay Area) from TX to get an abortion, I will let you crash on my sofa. My GF lives here too; she loves to cook for people. Hope you like Thai food, but she can make pasta if you don’t.
You are both beautiful and amazing people. Thank you. <3
Awesome list. Thanks for sharing!
Bravo, hope this helps someone in need!
It’s working as intended for the forced-birth party. Not only are women in red states relegated to second-class citizens, but those states are going to have a population boom. Which means that they’ll have even MORE representation in the House come the next census.
Human suffering is considered to be mere collateral damage as the GOP continues its pursuit of unchecked power.
It also drives any one more progressive than a stone wheel out of the state meaning there’s just fewer democrats to vote against their dear leader
Sort of like gerrymandering but completely legal!
not true. i’m staying here in part to serve people who are otherwise disempowered. texans, if you care about people and you care about this place, i hope some of you will stick around so we can make it better.
i respect that some just don’t want to and some don’t feel safe. but i also think enough people who care can make a difference.
Texas hasn’t voted blue since 1976. It ain’t happening anyway.
Texas is very much a purple area. It could completely flip blue in certain areas, which is why you might have noted all the efforts to suppress the vote at the state level, such as throwing out Houston’s votes.
how much of that is the more traditional kind of gerrymandering, though? They’re not as bad as WI, but they’re taking notes.
Someone should really tell them then that younger people tend to vote liberal…
Nvm, by then Democracy will have been replaced anyway.
younger people tend to vote liberal…
if they vote
True dat.
~26000 births isnt a lot though compared to the 375000 births that occur in Texas every year.
It’s about 7%. That is a lot.
The real question is, what is the overall population growth rate compared with before? I wonder how many people are leaving TX, or (more likely) deciding to not move to TX, compared with previous years.
In a school with 1400 kids, 100 of them are rape babies. Figure that’s a high school, with four grades. 350 kids per grade. 25 people in each grade is a rape baby.
That’s like an entire class room.
No matter how you conceptualise it it’s a whole fucking lot of rape babies.
1 in 14.4 based on your numbers, sounds pretty dang high in my opinion.
That’s at least 2 prisons full of free laborera for the state!
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That’s a fuckload of rape considering how small the window to actually get pregnant is.
Everything’s bigger in texas.
Except brain
Maybe it’s offset by spinal cord being even bigger?
My dick?
I cannot fathom that much raping in one state in that period of time. How does that get ignored? The crime is considered to be as serious as murder.
Rape has been a serious criminal offence in a lot of Europe since the middle ages… But as the crime happens in private where there is considerable shame applied to consentual extra merital liaisons there was a sort of “conflict of interest” for women to claim that it was something forced on them and not consentual circumstances. This, and the level of punishment being high required equally high burden of proof so usually unless someone was actually physically beaten to the point where it would be ludicrous to assume it consentual during the attack or there were independent witnessess to the crime you see this long history of rape being on the books as illegal but very little motivation to convict.
A lot of these rapes could be in step with the practice of “stealthing” or reproductive coercion where a condom or other contraceptive is willingly tampered with or removed during sex without the knowledge of the partner. This, while not the violent crime we automatically think of associating with rape is a removal of consent that has severe potential mental and physical reprocussions. Rape also encapsulates aspects where consent was removed partway during an otherwise consentual act but one of the partners refuses to stop. These styles of rape are quite common in the culture of dating which has culturally evolved to include sexual liasons as part of the trial period of determining good long term matches.
With our modern concepts of consent the perceived range of acts which count as reportable rape is larger than ever before due to decent education campaigns but the conviction rate remains low because of the same issues of burden of proof not being supportable to meet the level of persecution.
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Anecdotally, I don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been at least sexually assaulted, so yeah, there’s a lot of it. Many of us wouldn’t be counted in statistics because we never reported it or it was “just” assault (the guy who tried to rape me didn’t succeed because my sister came looking for me, caught him taking my pants off while I was unconscious, and beat him with a shoe until he left, so I always told myself nothing really happened). So yeah, rapists are way more common than we probably think, and they’re out there raping away.
Me Too showed me that what you are saying is true. It is also how I found out that my sisters and aunt had such experiences in their lives.
Yeah, it sounds like an absurd amount but when I stop and think about the women in my life almost all of them have been sexually assaulted at some point. And that’s just the ones that have felt comfortable enough to tell me about their experiences. It’s fucked up.
I told my husband I was one of the few lucky ones who didn’t have a Me Too story, until he pointed out the time in the club where a man shoved his hand down the back of my pants and tried to grope me and I grabbed his fingers and bent them back until he screamed like a bitch, and the time I was walking alone by the canal and a man chased me and I ran into a business and they had to lock the door to stop him getting in.
It’s so bad for women that these situations don’t feel like anything to complain about. Because nothing technically happened.
Oh yeah, the number of times men have groped me without consent is way higher, to the point that I probably don’t even remember all of them because it happens so often to so many women. You just sort of move on because what else can you do? Well, nearly break their fingers, I guess (I’ve also done that).
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Roughly one rape occurs in the United States every two minutes. About 55 rapes a day resulting in pregnancy. So there are likely upwards of 200 rapes a day total. Just in Texas.
Another horrifying statistics is that 1 in 6 women are raped in their lifetime.
Jesus christ.
I had no idea it was that bad.
“In 2022, about 442,754 women were raped or sexually assaulted in the U.S.”
If only 10% of those are rapes resulting in pregnancy, you’re looking at more than 44,000 forced births per year. And yes. In this way, it very much sucks to be a woman. I hope someone, somewhere, who reads these stark numbers stops engaging the toxic people who try and downplay women who don’t want to be alone with you, who act cautious around you, because they’re afraid.
And that’s only what’s get reported or whatever - Which alot of victims don’t do.
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Looking it up, Texas is moderately above the national, 51 per 100k vs 40.
I’m not going to say that this is just a Texas thing, but I’ve been watching a lot of true crime shows and it has absolutely shocked me how many of them occurred in Texas and Oklahoma.
Truly some of the worst people in the world occupied those lands over the last 150 year or so and we are seeing the results of that.
And consider you only have a chance to get pregnant if it happens during or before ovulation
I don’t have any friends who haven’t been at least assaulted. Mine happened when I was sleeping in my own goddamn room in my own apartment years ago.
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Yeah. We need to do a whole lot to stop the rape. I have no idea what, but something.
Remember that there are more than 350,000,000 people in the US. That’s a lot of people doing a lot of things, so you’re going to see numbers like that.
It’s also worth nothing that the crime rate in the US continues to drop each year even though the media makes it seem like it’s more dangerous out there.
To put it in perspective, 1 in 6 women are raped in their life, so the problem is actually horrifyingly bad.
And not just here. Something like 3/4 of children in India are victims of sexual assault. This is really a world-wide problem that has always been there and only relatively recently are people more largely paying attention and thinking it is wrong.
Why was this downvoted?
People vote with their emotions and not rationally. Someone will put up an article and people will downvote the post because they don’t like what the article is talking about, even though that’s not the fault of the person who posted it.
Also, reading the responses you got, it does seem that some people took personal offense as if I were saying that nobody cared about this. Obviously people do and always have. Implying that I am arguing that nobody cared is a pretty uncharitable interpretation and may reflect the mental state of the people responding.
Societies as a whole haven’t really cared, before, and that’s my point–it’s “Old Boys Club” and misogynistic nonsense that finally is being reviewed by more. Humans as a group have over the past 20 years or so started to take this very seriously in a way that didn’t happen before, and is the cause of the various scandals of rape kits not being tested, etc.
The wording kind of implies that it’s only recently that people started seeing rape as a bad thing. I would argue otherwise.
I think that the people who were victims of it over the past centuries probably already thought it was a bad thing, along with anyone who cared about them. It’s not a new revelation. People have been trying to spread awareness about this happening for multiple generations.
It’s an extremely low moral bar, to be honest. Some actions are indefensible and inexcusable. Anyone who had even half of a heart would have still cared about this happening over a hundred years ago.
It’s caring about your mother/sister/daughter/friend/teacher/nurse/mechanic/niece/neighbour/cousin/welder/artist/etc. If you care at all about any of them, this should have always been important to you. It’s wanting people to not suffer.
It would be like saying that people only recently started caring when someone murders innocent people. It’s always been terrible, and the offenders have always been terrible.
The wording kind of implies that it’s only recently that people started seeing rape as a bad thing
I mean, it’s true. In most countries of the world, marital rape was both tolerated and legal 100 years ago.
It’s always been terrible, and the offenders have always been terrible.
The comment above doesn’t imply otherwise though. You may argue that most people in the past had shit ethical opinions without agreeing with those opinions.
marital rape was both tolerated and legal 100 years ago.
In the US, this argument only started to fall apart in the early 1990s when a big case came into the public light. People argued that legally a husband can’t rape and has marital rights. As I recall, the idiot was still convicted and this was a big shift in public perception.
People might have not collectively cared, specifically and especially the people who likely didn’t see half of the population as human.
The victims have always cared, was my initial main point. To claim otherwise would be to also deny the sentience of those people.
Idk if you can see it on your instance/browser, but I didn’t vote on the comment.
Added: I agree that people in general have had some level of shitty ethics though, in one way or another. Especially historically. I didn’t see it was you asking either, sorry about that lol.
An actual life sentence for being the victim of rape.
I’m just going to point out that, in a number of states, rapists can get visitation rights or custody to their offspring, further victimizing the mother: first she was raped, second she was forced to carry the child to term and, if she decides to keep the child, she may be forced to have some form of contact with her rapist.
But sure, tell me again how Texas is such a fucking free paradise …
Texas and Florida are duking it out to be the worst fucking state of all time.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, (Organised) Christianity is not without guilt here either.
Iirc alimony and child support for that custody
Holy shit that’s a horrifying number. And this is just the pregnancies. I have no words other than FUCK TEXAS.
Having visited the place for extended periods of time I can confidently say Texas is a shithole. I don’t know why they think it’s so special.
They think themselves special because
A) it’s a very large state, nearly as large as Alaska. Originally or was going to become several states, but it being admitted to the union prior to the civil war as a slave state the leaders of the country chose to leave it as one huge state because they wanted to keep the ratio of slave and non slave states equal.
B) they used to be an independent country (like Hawaii). Nevermind the fact the only reason they asked to join the Union was that the nation of Texas was broke and couldn’t pay their bills.
C) they’re quite populous, nearly as much so as California.
Basically, when you’re second best at everything and broke af you get a chip on your shoulder.
Texas is that guy in the giant lifted truck who is insecure about how they look. They are as proud as new Yorkers are about their little slice of crap. but unlike NY who promotes we got the best experiences/opportunities, they value freedoms. Except they REALLY REALLY dont. Ita a huge lie they lie to themselves and everyone else about constantly.
A lot of states have one major city that dominates everything. Who cares about upstate New York or southern Illinois?
Texas happens to have three such metropolitan areas, but they act like anyone gives a shit about the rest.
26,000 rapes in the last nine months? If that’s true, they should be focusing on that more than abortion.
I promise you, survivors have been saying this for years.
That’s a crazy amount. That’s nearly 3000 rapes a month. Or roughly 100 rapes per day. And that’s only those that resulted in pregnancy. Actually for a state the size of Texas maybe it’s not that surprising, sadly.
That is astronomically bad. I know why women hate men. They are making a bad rep for all men. Disgusting.
Yeah, once you can stop the defensive toxic masculinity, and listen to women, it’s impossible not to be a feminist unless you’re truly evil.
oh gawd, and crybaby man-children complain about girls rejecting them, when girls are just trying to stay safe 🤦♂️
I’m not crying about rejection. But thanks for playing miss interpreting sentences that can have alternative meanings. Next week you can read into a meme I post and think it’s about your childhood.
Oh my gosh. I’m sorry. My reply/comment was very badly written. It was not directed at you. I meant to talk about how, in general, some men, who are child-like, take rejection so badly when they don’t understand the dangers women deal with when it comes to dating or other social interactions with men.
Again, I apologize. I should have looked over what I wrote before posting it.
I just want to see the two Benders make up.
And that’s just those that got reported.
No that’s rapes that lead to pregnancies and were reported.
Jesus christ Texas.
I was assured by Governor Abbott that there wouldn’t be rapes because those are illegal.
There aren’t people illegally crossing the border, either. Oh wait… did no one think to throw that in his face at the time?
That’s only 26000 RAPE RELATED PREGNANCIES. Not the total number of rapes unfortunately.
Or, you know, maybe not allow people to be raped and allow people to discontinue a pregnancy, especially those arising from rape.
The support those children will receive postpartum, will be just, warm hearted and generous, right?
Thoughts and prayers
They’re God’s children when they’re in the womb … a tool to used by government during the first ten years of their lives … and nobody wants them when they grow up.
That’s not true - the military can always use more hands
Thats a fuckload of rapes
Especially when you consider those are only the ones that resulted in pregnancies.
No, I think pretty much anyone would get a sexual health and pregnancy test, at least, after getting f’ing raped!
Sure, maybe. Not every rape will result in pregnancy though, that’s the point. For the to be 26k pregnancies resulting from rapes, there must have been more than 26k rapes. Which is an absolutely ludacris number of rapes. That’s the point being made: >26k rapes is a fucking insane amount of rapes.
Republicans want this because it will continue the supply of prison slaves when the children are a little older.
Neglected, reviled, emotionally abused, poorly educated children (which many of these children will be due to the situations they are being born into) will make great little conservative voters.
They’ll be ready to vote for the leader that best validates their anger.
At the rate we’re going, by the time these kids are voting age, will there still be a country?
Wait a sec. In the event of rape, I thought God stops the pregnancy. Or, the women’s body magically rejects it because they are not soul mates. Or, whatever other evil, disgusting, nonsense, bullshit these idiots dream up to try and justify torturing women.
I think the old testament prescribes taking some kind of elixir to stop the pregnancy if there’s adultery. As far as morality goes the bible has genocides where killing women and children is demanded.
Imo rape kids are the intention of these bills. White Christian Nationalists think women have too much control and they want to use the state to enforce their own beliefs in power and control.
And an alarming amount of people, including lawmakers beleive something along those line, or “if its legitimate rape, the body has ways of shutting it down”
So they will think if you got pregnant from it then it wasn’t really rape then was it? Because if it was “real rape” God/ your body would have stopped you from getting pregnant.
That’s a lot of rapes. Aside from guns do Texans actually care about anything. They obviously don’t care about women other than sex objects.
They care about size, and relate everything large to their state with shit like “Texas sized!”
…which 1: tooootally not compensating for anything, and 2: is hilarious because regarding US state size, Texas is #2 by a massive margin, measuring in at about 0.5 Alaskas.
Yeah but Alaska doesn’t count because hardly anyone lives there…
Then they bitch about California.
We’re on the precipice of rape being legalized in Texas.
Texas saw an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies during the 16 months after the state outlawed all abortions, with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
“The authors noted that while some pregnant rape survivors who need abortion care may be able to travel out of state or manage the pregnancy at home with abortion pills, the bans leave many survivors without a viable alternative.”
Some parts of the USA are really more than utterly disgusting. And we all know it’s not pro-life, it’s pro-cheaplabour.
