Texas Hits A New Level Of Misogyny

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Texas actually passed a bill which would require women to carry fetuses to term even if the fetus is suffering from a painful irreversible condition.  Slate reports:

Republican State Representative Matt Schaefer has recently proposed an amendment to the Health and Safety Code for medical facilities that would “prohibit the performance of an abortion at the facility on the basis that the fetus has a severe and irreversible abnormality.” And as he explained last month on Facebook, “Fetal abnormalities should not justify taking the life of unborn babies.” In other words, regardless of the viability of a fetus, Schaefer would like to make sure that a woman be forced to carry it as long as possible.

This means that if there is a fetus that has some kind of condition which means it will not survive out of the womb, the woman must carry it to term anyway.  And then the born baby must suffer a very short, very painful life until it finally dies mere minutes after being born.  Why?  Why would Republicans want to put mothers and their offspring through this?

Because as [Schaefer] sees it, those fetuses “are going to suffer, they’re going to feel pain” and well, “That’s part of the human condition, when sin entered the world, and it grieves us all.”

Ah, suffer the children and all that biblical rot.

Houston Rep. Jessica Farrar, meanwhile, boggled that “I won’t even go into the level of misogyny I have experienced this session.” Appallingly, the bill passed before State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer quickly filed a legislative point of order that put it back under review.

Thankfully.