Believe it or not, many people (and especially women) don’t base their college choices on whether that state has easy access to abortions.

You can be sure that texans will help these woman get the medical care they need

It’s amusing that you all believe Texas cares what you think.

Boycott? Sure. Let me know when you stop using petroleum products.

The Texans I know will be thrilled if all of the Californians who have moved there recently go home. In fact, I am not completely sure that this isn’t the point of the entire bill (or, at least, a not-unhappy side effect).

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Anonymous wrote:Wife and I are both Texas A&M grads and would have no problem sending either of our daughters there.

But, then again, we're both pro-life and want to see Roe v. Wade overturned.

So you are ok with an ectopic pregnacy being forced on a woman, with the follow on internal eruption and death?

Misrepresenting the law doesn’t help your case. There is an exemption for the health of the mother.

But the exemption is very narrowly defined and there are likely fewer doctors who will take the risk etc. This is seriously burdening women's health.

There is no way a doctor wouldn’t intervene for an ectopic pregnancy.

What an ass-backwards state! Nope. No kid of mine is going to Texas.

I was hoping that they get a few hurricanes and another terrible winter to teach them a lesson but then realized that it will only lead to Texans moving to other parts of the country. So I am hoping that all is peaceful weather-wise in Texas so the trash remains there.

They are already doing harm to themselves. The land of COVID, Colts and Coat hangers. Have mercy!

I didn’t have to do a dang thing. My daughter just announced that she was taking Rice off her application list. May just be a coincidence I guess.

I don't want to have a student in college there and particularly not at a state university. I would not want to give any money to the state of Texas. They pay bounty hunters money to enforce this repulsive law.

Anonymous wrote:January 6 saw private citizens trying to prevent an orderly transition to newly elected President. Now, thanks to Texas Abortion law, we will see private citizens turning on other citizens to prevent them from exercising their legal rights as related to their own decisions on their health. In both cases, the private citizens trying to prevent a legal/constitutional process are GOP members/supporters. What does that say about the GOP? Has it outrun its relevance to American Democracy?

I love this take - centering our nation's democracy rather than one party always trying to make it about them. That is the key difference between those who believe in governance v those who are only focused on amassing power.

Anonymous wrote:The law is vauge and who wants to be the test case guinea pig to determine what is and is not allowed. Especially since the enforcement mechanism is private citizens...you heard that right folks....private citizens. Nothing is being overstated. This law is basically the end for almost all legal abortions for the people of texas. That is not overstated.

The private citizens being the enforcement mechanism is the workaround they used to avoid having the law--which is clearly unconstitutional--be able to be tested in court--they don't want state officials to have to go to court on it. But even if you consider yourself "pro-life"--do you really want state laws to be able to be created to encourage private citizens to enforce unconstitutional laws?? 70% of people in this country do not want Roe v. Wade overturned and it is currently the law of the land. The only way Texas is getting around it is through this deputization of private citizens to enforce the law so the state can't be challenged in court. What if other states deputized private citizens to enforce laws as a run-around to your preferred constitutional right?

January 6 saw private citizens trying to prevent an orderly transition to newly elected President. Now, thanks to Texas Abortion law, we will see private citizens turning on other citizens to prevent them from exercising their legal rights as related to their own decisions on their health. In both cases, the private citizens trying to prevent a legal/constitutional process are GOP members/supporters. What does that say about the GOP? Has it outrun its relevance to American Democracy?

The law is vauge and who wants to be the test case guinea pig to determine what is and is not allowed. Especially since the enforcement mechanism is private citizens...you heard that right folks....private citizens. Nothing is being overstated. This law is basically the end for almost all legal abortions for the people of texas. That is not overstated.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wife and I are both Texas A&M grads and would have no problem sending either of our daughters there.

But, then again, we're both pro-life and want to see Roe v. Wade overturned.

So you are ok with an ectopic pregnacy being forced on a woman, with the follow on internal eruption and death?

Misrepresenting the law doesn’t help your case. There is an exemption for the health of the mother.

But the exemption is very narrowly defined and there are likely fewer doctors who will take the risk etc. This is seriously burdening women's health.

I know the most woke Texas Dems who are fighting tooth and nail to get the loons away. I have family in Houston, Dallas and Austin and love these places.

For us, it is also the climate change along with politics. Texas, Florida, California and Michigan are off our radar. I cannot believe that such a day would have come that any part in US was as inhabitable as Afghanistan.

Nope is right. Find another state for college and everything else.

Nope.