r/facepalm Aug 27 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Welp

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u/Isabella_Bee Aug 27 '24

Six babies that they know of.

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u/DeadBabyBallet Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

Exactly. There could be newborn babies that were quietly killed that no one knows about/ haven't been discovered. Not to mention, pregnant women who either harmed themselves or made themselves very sick in other ways to try to abort. All kinds of things could be happening behind the scenes. It's awful.

Edit* I forgot to also mention there could be pregnant women being murdered by their partners as well

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 27 '24

BUT BUT BUT ISN’T THIS JUST SO MUCH BETTER NOW THAT GOD IS PLEASED?

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u/OddDragonfruit7993 Aug 27 '24

Blood for the blood god!

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u/say_it_aint_slow Aug 27 '24

Skulls for the skull throne.

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u/PrimaryCoolantShower Aug 27 '24

Babies for the Baby Oil.

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u/firechaos70 Autistic vaccine enjoyer Aug 27 '24

"Hey, buddy, is this made of real or artificial babies?"

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u/Bastardjuice Aug 27 '24

Cold-pressed, extra-virgin…

I’m sorry, I’ll see myself out.

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u/MechanicalBengal Aug 27 '24

It’s a red state, so 50/50 on whether any given baby is a virgin

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 28 '24

LOL god damn. I miss awards.

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u/BKStephens Aug 27 '24

This better fucking be organic!

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u/willclerkforfood Aug 27 '24

Don’t want some damn GMO babies in my baby oil

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u/kleighk Aug 27 '24

This reminded me of a horrible, yet somehow hilarious, thing my college roommate used to say: “That sounds about as fun as a blender full of babies.” I can’t explain it.

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u/Mord4k Aug 27 '24

Slanesh is suddenly very curious where this is going

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 Aug 27 '24

Shit this thread just got hella dark all of a sudden. And that's impressive given the topic was abandoning babies.

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u/Levonorgestrelfairy1 Aug 27 '24

Blood for the Emperor. Skulls for the golden Throne!

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u/Rangerjon94 Aug 27 '24

We found the Zealot...

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u/thebearbearington Aug 27 '24

Milk for the Khorne Flakes!

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u/V7I_TheSeventhSector Aug 27 '24

he did like killing orphans

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u/patrickab7 Aug 27 '24

At least they weren't aborted!

Now if they survive, they can live to be shot in school!

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u/SheToldMe Aug 27 '24

Or be the shooters!

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u/patrickab7 Aug 27 '24

Thank the heaven's that no guns will be harmed!

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u/NeedsMoreSpicy Aug 28 '24

The American Dream 🥰

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u/grated_testes Aug 27 '24

Surely the god who supports cannibalism, blood sacrifice, slavery, and the daily deaths of thousands of children cares a whole lot about abortion!

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

Don’t forget the god of sex slavery and genocide.

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u/DarthGayAgenda Aug 27 '24

Only if they sacrificed them in His name, like he was trying to make Abraham do to Isaac.

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u/LurkLurkleton Aug 27 '24

But then God was like "Sike!"

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u/willclerkforfood Aug 27 '24

“LOL J/K!!! Oh my Me, look at the look on your face! Since we’re here tho, idk, fuckin kill that goat or somethin.”

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u/HumanContinuity Aug 27 '24

But to be fair to Republicans in Texas and elsewhere, how could anyone have foreseen this? There is literally no way to predict such things and no one warned them!

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u/motleyai Aug 27 '24

Suffering and selfishness is the point.

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u/HumanContinuity Aug 27 '24

I would prefer a nasty sunburn over reading the comments on a local news story like that. The hatred is probably more likely to cause cancer too.

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u/bad2behere Aug 27 '24

Everyone who remembers before birth control became widely available knew this would happen if they paid attention back then. Because it has been happening for centuries is how we could see it would happen again. It's historically proven. Sadly, some people don't look to history for knowledge, they look only to those who think like they do. So Republicans as well as Democrats who didn't foresee this simply acted on their point of view instead of learning from the past. Sad -- very very sad, imho. And the innocent are suffering because of it. I'm honestly in tears right now.

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u/No_Arugula8915 Aug 27 '24

Everyone who remembers before birth control became widely available knew this would happen

Anyone with half a brain and an ounce of common sense would have known. Only 6 is the part that surprises me. I figured more.

Might sound dark and pessimistic, but I don't think it will be all that long now before there are "missing" babies and toddlers.

Don't want them, can't feed them, can't care for them, state won't take them, and so many more reasons. Every once in a while there are still little unwanteds from pre Roe days that turn up.

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u/bradbikes Aug 27 '24

It's not only 6, just 6 that they've discovered in this particular county of the state.

In the months following the law changes, Texas infant fatalities rose 13%, fatalities of mothers during birth also saw a similarly dramatic rise.

This rise was directly attributable to the anti-choice laws passed by republicans as it is localized to their state and similar rises were not seen elsewhere in the nation during this time period except in other anti-choice jurisdictions. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/texas-sb-8-and-increases-in-infant-deaths

Republicans actively promote policies that cause death and suffering of children.

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u/mjsymonds Aug 28 '24

...and women.

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u/bradbikes Aug 28 '24

Well that goes without saying. But they CLAIM they do this for the children while simultaneously raising infant mortality by leaps and bounds.

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u/heart_blossom Aug 27 '24

They all know. They literally don't care. I've heard a lot of "she deserves to die from a back room procedure." They literally do not care.

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u/rhetoricalnonsense Aug 27 '24

More information can be found here:

TLDR:

The new study compared infant death rates in Texas from 2018 to 2022 to those of 28 other states. The data included newborns 28 days or younger and infants up to 12 months old. Infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% the year after SB8 was passed, from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about 2% nationwide.

Babies born with congenital anomalies also increased in Texas, by nearly 23%, but decreased by about 3% nationwide. 

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u/gardengirl99 Aug 27 '24

They got what they wanted: more births! Outside the uterus, they don’t GAF.

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u/DoodleyDooderson Aug 27 '24

I saw a woman unironically say, “Pro-life has nothing to do with afterbirth care! 🤨” with that emoji even. If their god existed he would be smitting the shit out of all of them, all the time. Jesus would have come back just to bitch slap these assholes.

So tired of them. Parasites.

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u/Drawtaru Aug 27 '24

If their god existed he would be smitting the shit out of all of them

I mean, there's a LOT of hurricanes and tornadoes in the bible belt, and they're getting worse every year. The storms AND the "christians."

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u/Blueberry_Clouds Aug 28 '24

And it’s also their fault too. They don’t believe in global warming

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u/gobsmacked247 Aug 27 '24

I never thought about it but if the mother is not planning on keeping the baby, the mother is not taking care to go to doctor appointments or take prenatal vitamins or any of the things you do to have a healthy baby. Damn, I never thought of that…

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u/ReallyAnxiousFish Aug 27 '24

Also, piggybacking off of your comment, but if I hear one more Republican go "but there are late-term abortions!! women are changing their minds and deciding to kill their babies when they're bored with it!!"

No one, absolutely no one, is going through a pregnancy until the 7th, 8th month and then going "You know what? I don't want this anymore. I definitely just spent the past 8 months being wildly uncomfortable and in pain and stretching my body because I was just so indecisive!" Those abortions happen because of the risk to the mother, or because the baby is dying/dead/will not survive. Those are wanted children, children of parents who have already set up the nursery, already picked out clothing, maybe settled on a name.

To tell people who get third trimester abortions that they're monsters is not only ignorant of why people actually get late-term abortions, but its so fucking heartless and cruel to tell that to a grieving couple mourning the loss of their wanted child. Especially since many will conclude they did something wrong, when sometimes, pregnancies can just go wrong. That's the unfortunate reality of life.

But Republicans don't live in reality. They live in some fantasy world where people go through months of pregnancy and then just last minute go "never mind lmao abort".

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u/VitruvianDude Aug 27 '24

This is my go-to reply to those "moderates" who want to have a "reasonable" time limit on abortions: instead of allowing the procedure up to the twelfth week, how about restricting it to the third trimester? Because if a woman chooses an abortion then, you know that something has gone tragically wrong.

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u/BarkBark716 Aug 28 '24

They don't care. You can tell then until you are blue in the face and they will tell you to yours that both you and the baby should've suffered to term. I blocked a lot of "friends" after my 24 week abortion. Returning the maternity clothes was so fucking hard. "Is something wrong with them? No, so why are you returning them?" I just sobbed, "I'm not pregnant anymore." Thankfully my wonderful mother in law returned the baby clothes because I couldn't have done it. Its also not an easy procedure and they (at least at the place I went) treat you like shit. The male tech was the only one with any compassion at all. I also got yelled at by picketers. But sure Jan, people are deciding at 8 months that they would like to go through a traumatic experience because they changed their mind.

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u/NeedsMoreSpicy Aug 28 '24

I remember speaking to a friend and they admitted they don't have a problem with abortions, but bans were necessary because women get them for fun. That they brag about how many abortions they have. Yes, the friend of mine is a woman. Completely divorced from reality. It legit makes me mad to think about.

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u/gobsmacked247 Aug 28 '24

That reminds me of this trump supporter (first term but probably still is) who said she voted for trump because she didn’t want Hillary being ruled by her menses. I looked at this friend straight in the face, saw that she was serious, laughed, and said Hillary has not bled for quite a few years now. Honest to goodness she had a pikachu face. It had not occurred to her in the least.

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u/brisetta Aug 27 '24

I believe many of them know exactly what the truth is, its just that they dont care as long as it happens to the poors, and not to them.

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u/tinyfeeds Aug 27 '24

I think it’s because any woman who gets an abortion is a useless whore in their eyes. None of these people understand why and when abortions are sought, their brains put on the brakes long ago when they were taught that all women are Eve, thus evil, scheming sluts.

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u/EverybodysSatellite Aug 28 '24

Not to mention, there is no doctor in the country that would perform that abortion on a healthy near-term or full-term fetus. If they had to end the pregnancy, they would perform a c-section and deliver the child.

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u/purplepluppy Aug 27 '24

And women being forced to give birth to extremely ill babies that won't survive long, which normally would be aborted when the issues are discovered.

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u/Jax_10131991 Aug 27 '24

It’s frustrating because most of the women I speak to around North Texas are in two camps: the religious white women who claim that God will bless them with a child and if not they’re ok with dying, and the minority women who are afraid to vote, or are nonchalant about voting. I want to bang my head against the wall sometimes when I work with them.

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u/cmreeves702 Aug 27 '24

Or admitting to!!

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u/HighVoltLemonBattery Aug 27 '24

Possibly just counting the babies that are light enough in skin tone, the rest were tossed across the boarder wall or into the barbed wire river

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u/KintsugiKen Aug 28 '24

This is how you get shit like cisterns filled with hundreds of baby corpses, like was discovered in Ireland where abortion was illegal until 2018.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/04/chamber-of-horrors-remains-of-hundreds-of-babies-to-be-exhumed-from-mass-grave-in-ireland

We saw plenty of this in the US before Roe vs Wade too, women would drop their unwanted babies into outhouses to drown and "disappear" and it would become a burdensome secret.

Banning abortion only results in literal dead babies along with dead or infertile mothers from botched "back alley" abortions. If you want to increase fertility, banning abortion is one of the worst ways to go about it.

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u/Loadingexperience Aug 27 '24

And it's exactly the according to the plan. They will most likely grow up poorly educated, perfect future GOP voter.

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u/Indigoh Aug 27 '24

They're encouraging the so-called post-birth abortions they fear.

How incredibly typical of them.

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u/GSR667 Aug 27 '24

My feeling is, women are dying and Texas is hiding it.

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u/TheLoneGunman559 Aug 27 '24

Don't worry! Texas a has safety net in place for these kinds of things! They were prepared!

/s

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u/ziadog Aug 27 '24

Just like their power grid plan!

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u/Harvest827 Aug 27 '24

Same plan.

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u/Bpbucks268 Aug 28 '24

Every time a baby is abandoned, Ted Cruz goes to Cancun?

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u/westtexasbackpacker Aug 27 '24

dammit best me to it!

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u/HellishChildren Aug 27 '24

Texas turned CPS into horror show and that wasn't an accident. They've been putting foster children in unlicensed facilities for years, including facilities out of state, on the other side of the US.

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u/heyuhitsyaboi Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

had to google this because holy hell

from US Congressman Colin Allred:

There are about 9,000 children in long-term custody of the state, and an average of 80 children per month were staying in unlicensed and unsafe housing last year. This includes poorly supervised motels rife with sex trafficking, leaving already vulnerable children exposed to abuse. In the past three years, there have been 2,100 serious incidents involving these children without placement, including death, abuse and neglect.
Source: allred.house.gov

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u/RobertDaulson Aug 27 '24

2,100 cases and 9,000 kids. Jesus Christ, that’s almost 1/4.

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 27 '24

Nope this is totally better than abortion guys, come on! Abortion is literally killing a child! What kind of monster would do that, when we could [checks notes] abandon the child in an abusive, underfunded system and slowly watch it die instead?

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u/Paksarra Aug 27 '24

And this is why Project 2025 also says that all babies have the right to be raised by their biological parents-- they also want to get rid of adoption and the foster system! Isn't that lovely?

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u/NeedsMoreSpicy Aug 28 '24

Forcing defenseless children to remain in the care of parents who never wanted them? Nah, nothing will go wrong with that!

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 28 '24

Forced parentage? Amazing! Truly nothing is better than a child being raised by their real parents, even if love/basic needs met aren’t in the equation! It’s Gods Will™!

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u/chene313 Aug 27 '24

This is exactly why they want to stop abortion- more kids to molest - abuse - enslave - indoctrinate. Look at how many Republicunts are found to be pedohiles - they are absolutely salivating at the opportunity to get their hands on as many children as possible.

Can’t wait to see what happens when they become adults out in the world. The crime rates are going to skyrocket in the next 12-18 - just watch. “CcHrIsTiAn fAmILy VaLueS” my ass - fuck these people forever.

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u/UsefulSummer4937 Aug 27 '24

Uhm. Am I alone in thinking this sounds like Texas wants more babies for sex trafficking... Because that's sure as f what it looks like to me...

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u/HoneyShaft Aug 27 '24

Proving once again that the GOP stands for Gross Old PEDOPHILES that treat babies/children as nothing more than a product they can use and manipulate.

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u/PiSquared6 Aug 27 '24

Didn't USA lose 300,000 migrant children since 2021

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u/No_Banana_581 Aug 27 '24

So Texas govt officials are straight up sex and human trafficking kids legally. No wonder the republicans in Texas are always so concerned about what sex a child is. They want to know who they’ll traffick out to their rich buddies. Epstein was small time compared to them

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u/GoldwingGranny Aug 27 '24

I’m sorry to hear this, but not too surprised.

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u/HellishChildren Aug 27 '24

Texas Tribune has covered it extensively. There's a twelve year old lawsuit about unsafe conditions in Texas foster care. The judge started cracking down this year... and Texas is trying to remove some of the judge's ability to impose punishment.

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u/Stark_Reio Aug 27 '24

Texas government has to be the worst I've seen out of current US so far.

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u/uglyspacepig Aug 27 '24

When they seriously want to secede, we should let them file the paperwork then sell them to Mexico the day before it goes final

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u/rabidsalvation Aug 27 '24

Maybe we should build Texas its very own wall, all the way around.

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u/Fun-Key-8259 Aug 27 '24

Yep let’s give them the wall they want

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u/HeyitzEryn Aug 27 '24

Yea... their AG is the fucking worst. We should probably see what is on that dudes hard-drive.

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u/Big-Summer- Aug 27 '24

And you know all those politicians who are behind this crap are absolutely thrilled at everything we’re reading here. We read it and feel concern, empathy, sorrow. The Reich wing assholes read about all these dire outcomes and are filled with glee at causing all this misery.

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u/Pokemaster131 Aug 27 '24

The safety net is woven from the bootstraps they keep telling us to pull ourselves up by.

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u/homebrew_1 Aug 27 '24

Texas is going to start a running tab on these babies and when they turn 18 they will have to pay it all back. I want to say this is sarcasm, but this is Texas and it might be a prediction.

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u/stormy2587 Aug 27 '24

But you can buy guns so its better than some liberal hell hole like Massachusetts (ranked as the best state to raise a child by many sources).

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u/icewalker42 Aug 27 '24

They have a bus to NY on standby.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

i hope the pro-lifers are ready to adopt some of these babies!

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u/CleverDad Aug 27 '24

Yeah they'll get right on that

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u/ScissorMeSphincter Aug 27 '24

Those babies are already born. They mean nothing to forced-birthers at that point.

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u/hellomudder Aug 27 '24

"Them babies need to start pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"

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u/make2020hindsight Aug 27 '24

"Look at em. They're already reliant on the socialist government handouts for diapers and formula. What disgraceful people they are."

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u/Lisamae_u Aug 28 '24

“Don’t breed ‘em if you can’t feed ‘em” -also pro lifers

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u/Rahernaffem Aug 27 '24

"No, Lois, I'm here to save the unborn. Once they get out of the vagina, they can go fuck themselves."

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u/Hopes-Dreams-Reality Aug 27 '24

Sorry, too busy riding that moral high horse.

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u/darkest_timeline_ Aug 27 '24

All these babies looking for free food and shelter, that's socialism, get a job - republicans probably

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u/thewaldoyoukno Aug 27 '24

Why do you think they are pushing for a repeal on child labor laws

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u/Klutzy_Emu2506 Aug 27 '24

Please don’t lol, they can’t even raise theirs properly

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u/omghorussaveusall Aug 27 '24

Nah, they're just going to legalize child labor and then charge kids for lodging and care and force them to work in sweatshops.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

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u/thathairinyourmouth Aug 27 '24

So.. For profit prisons, but for the under 18 crowd?

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u/uhuhnoyoudidnt Aug 27 '24

“Once they’re born, fuck em.”

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u/transcendanttermite Aug 27 '24

Ooooh, I’m so sorry, see the state motto:

“If you’re pre-born, you’re fine; If you’re pre-school, you’re fucked.”

(Thanks to George Carlin)

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u/JesuswasQueer Aug 27 '24

Pro-forced birth advocates should be forced to adopt these kids.

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u/Theyre_Marigolds Aug 27 '24

That would be unfair to the kids

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u/Groundbreaking_Cup30 Aug 27 '24

It's almost like we told them that abortion bans would cause more problems...

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u/silver-orange Aug 27 '24

Abandoned babies and back-alley abortions were big issues before Roe. They became less common after the Roe v Wade decision. And now we're right back where we were in the 1960s.

Didn't need a crystal ball to see that one coming, just a history book.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '24

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u/burnsalot603 Aug 28 '24

I can at least understand that they are greedy scumbags that only care about enriching themselves, so they want to change the legislation to make it easier to make mountains of cash regardless of consequences.

What I can't understand are the people who make $40k a year and think that those policies are somehow beneficial to them. Unless you are in the top couple percent of earners, nothing they are doing is good for you. It's like they all believe that they are going to hit powerball and then open a business that's gonna make $20 million a year in profits so they better supports this bullshit now so they can enjoy it when their time comes. It just makes no sense to me.

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u/-Davo Aug 27 '24

Conservatives don't care about anyone or anything except themselves. Except when other people do a thing that violates their cherry picked verses of their shitty book.

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u/compman007 Aug 27 '24

But think of the babies that people are wanting to kill!!!!!

Exactly!

What?

Exactly!

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u/lapoda Aug 27 '24

What's that saying? "You cannot ban abortions. You can only ban safe abortions."

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u/AValentineSolutions Aug 27 '24

Romania found out about this under Ceausescu. Outlaw abortion, you get a glut of unwanted children who are abandoned and then become wards of the state. That led to some of the most disgusting child trafficking ever seen. We don't learn from history in America.

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u/anonmymouse Aug 27 '24

We barely know history in America...

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u/BobBeats Aug 27 '24

History that is whitewashed to make it sound like those awful times of children being maimed in factories were desirable outcomes.

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 27 '24

It’s more that a lot of them just make up whatever sounds the best and run with it lol.

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u/effurshadowban Aug 27 '24

Actually, we despise history in America. The amount of times I've heard people ask why history is taught in schools is disgusting.

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u/AgentDoggett Aug 27 '24

Thank you! I’m old enough to remember this. Horrifying.

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u/KintsugiKen Aug 28 '24

We don't need to learn from Romanian history, we just need to look at our own history before Roe V Wade, where unwanted babies were commonly killed in secret and had their bodies dropped into rivers or outhouses or buried anonymously or incinerated, and women with unwanted pregnancies would more often have complications from "back alley" abortions that rendered them infertile, scarred, or even killed them.

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u/Kendal-Lite Aug 27 '24

And the repugs will do nothing to help raise those unwanted babies.

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u/HellishChildren Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

I forget which Republican it was that said it, but in 2021, after the abortion bounty bill became news,when asked about what would happen to the unwanted babies born, he was real casual suggesting maybe some of them would be adopted.

They never had a plan.

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u/AdEmbarrassed9719 Aug 27 '24

Of course not! It was never about the babies, it was about punishing women who, in their minds, "should have kept their legs closed."

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u/RedEyeFlightToOZ Aug 27 '24

Even though most women who get abortions are already married with kids. How dare a married woman have sex with her husband.

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u/Recent_Obligation276 Aug 28 '24

Then it’s about taking the child from the husband, who owns the wife, in their eyes.

Time to go back to the old nickname, Yall-qaeda.

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u/TheBrownBaron Aug 27 '24

One step further

They never gave a fuck about abortion (truly). It's just. Way to try and turn complex politics into a binary issue for religious people, who vote

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u/Vellichorosis Aug 27 '24

Someone asked our state Gov if he was going to fund foster care more to make up for not allowing abortion. He said no. Like literally just no, because apparently he didn't think it would be nesscary despite our state's abysmal record with this shit.

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u/HospitalNarrow4760 Aug 27 '24

Pro life until the inconvenience

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u/HH_burner1 Aug 27 '24

“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.”

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u/kamiar77 Aug 27 '24

Pro birth because the preborn never complain or want anything.

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u/TemperatureTop246 Aug 27 '24

hell no, they don't even have jobs! Why would we help someone who doesn't have a job, and just stares at you blankly when you tell them to go look for work? Lazy babies!!!

/s (just in case, and I'm not R)

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u/BackThatThangUp Aug 27 '24

I saw a post from a forced birther once and they were rambling on about how God has “promised” (demands?) a life for you, but made no statement about whether it would be a good life or a long life, etc. And I just really have no words for how stupid and arbitrary that is. 

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u/One-Inch-Punch Aug 27 '24

The cruelty is the point.

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u/Jazzlike-Greysmoke Aug 27 '24

How vile of you to say that. They are doing everything they can to bring back child labour so those babies can become valuables members of the society.

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u/daisychainsnlafs Aug 27 '24

Were they left at a fire/police station? Or a dumpster? Does Texas have the baby drop boxes where you can safely leave a baby? Just curious if they have safe options in place

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u/Iamkillboy Aug 27 '24

The dumpsters ARE the drop boxes in Texas.

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u/millennium-popsicle Aug 27 '24

They’re also the drop boxes in any country that doesn’t have abortion available. I really don’t know what they were expecting with that ban, when we have so many examples of how those things go from around the world…

Oh wait… it’s Texas…

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u/Aggressive-Fuel587 Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

They're ignorantly trying to force women to treat sex like a sacred act only conducted between two people who seek to form a family.

As far as they're concerned, if you're having sex, you're obligated to eventually be a parent; if you don't want to be a parent, then you're obligated to abstain from sex. At least if you're a woman.

It's the same reason they view contraceptives, homosexuality, and transgenderism as moral sins; they conflict with the traditional conservative sentiment that men are meant to rule the world and women exist as breeding machines not independant indivduals with their own autonomy.

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u/KellyLuvsEwan420 Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 28 '24

If the state has a save haven law all fire stations and police stations will take unwanted babies.

Edit: the save haven law was enacted in Texas in 1999.

Edit to my edit: fix misspelling.

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u/Book1984371 Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 28 '24

They have anonymous drop boxes, but you can't leave a baby that is more than 60 days old. No idea how they'd find you if you left a 3 month old baby, but whatever. This isn't unusual though. California limits it to 3 days old.

You can also leave a baby at any police station, fire station, or ER.

69 babies in the last 5 years have been dropped off at safe boxes.

In the past 6 months, 7 have been found dead/abandoned.

The KHOU 11 Verify Team provides an overview of the law's purpose to protect newborn babies.

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u/Pizza_Middle Aug 27 '24

I know for sure the DFW metroplex had places set up about 10 years ago when I was out there last.

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u/Burner-QWERTY Aug 27 '24

In the early 1990's... about 18 years after Roe V Wade passed there was a massive drop in crime rates. More specifically each of the 50 states adopted abortion availability at various times. In all 50 states crime started dropping 18 years after abortions were accessable.

A lot of states are due for a massive crime wave.

https://freakonomics.com/2005/05/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/

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u/TwoDeuces Aug 28 '24

Jesus has a plan, and apparently its more crime. Nice.

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u/kr4ckenm3fortune Aug 27 '24

If I understood, it also because the healthcare for women has dramactly changed in the medical landscape now. If I remember reading it, some doctors are afraid of helping women because of the stupid "bounty hunting" that been going on. This what Texas get, when they keep trying to restrict women's healthcare, especially when the line is blurred.

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u/TheNamelessOnesWife Aug 28 '24

That would be my big fear. Say I got in a car accident traveling through Texas and had to prove I wasn't pregnant before getting pain medication or any cares. It changes all medical decisions to prevent a doctor from just helping the woman they are speaking too

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u/JFJinCO Aug 27 '24

Six babies that you know of. Nice job, Texas.

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u/ohheyhowsitgoin Aug 27 '24

And that's just one county.

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u/shellbullet17 Aug 27 '24

Texas firefighter paramedic. I live in a different county than the post, however I can state for a fact just in my city we have had 2-3(I am iffy on the 3rd baby but for sure 2) babies dropped off at fire stations in just the past 2 months. In almost 10 years in this job I haven't even seen one. Much less possibly 3 in 2 months

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u/HellishChildren Aug 27 '24

Just don't take the Baby Moses law too literally.

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u/Wilvinc Aug 27 '24

Pro-lifers only care about unborn kids. They become heartless once the kid is born ... hell, they don't even want them getting free school lunch.

Heartless and weird.

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u/FanDry5374 Aug 27 '24

They don't care about kids. Period. Maternal care? Gun control?

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u/ChemicalMedicine4523 Aug 27 '24

Origin story for “GOP’s Children of the Corn”.

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u/kaarbrev Aug 27 '24

All jokes aside: I really hope those poor helpless babies find a loving home.

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u/ThatMysteriousUser Aug 28 '24

Sadly 2 are dead

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u/peskypedaler Aug 27 '24

And there's a parade of trump flag trucks a mile long of people all wanting to adopt them, correct? So that the government doesn't have to bear the expense and burden of raising them, right?

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u/zimmermrmanmr Aug 27 '24

Easy solution: a public vote either for or against abortions. Those who vote against are entered into a lottery, and are selected at random to become the parent of abandoned babies.

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u/Cjmate22 Aug 27 '24

This, republicans are ALWAYS about self responsibility and taking accountability for their actions. So they shouldn’t have a problem about this system.

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u/DeadCatGrinning Aug 27 '24

"may be" = all predictions about the coming river of horrific consequences for these brain dead zealous actions are coming true. Picachu face

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 27 '24

“lol silly liberals are trying to “kill babies” too quickly; it’s obviously much more fun to abandon them in an abusive and underfunded system to slowly die for their entire life, potentially turning to crime and other activities that we can then also clutch our pearls over and ignorantly ask how this could have happened. Nonsense!”

  • a modern right winger, probably

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u/DeadCatGrinning Aug 27 '24

Sounds about right, but louder.

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u/ScienticianAF Aug 27 '24

As a Dutch guy living in Alabama I always have to shake my head reading about stories like this.
Conservative states almost always have higher abortion rates.

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u/BobBeats Aug 27 '24

Limiting access to contraceptives and opting out of sex ed is a recipe for teen pregnancy.

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u/southernmamallama Aug 27 '24

This is so true. They’re only pro-birth. They don’t care what happens otherwise.

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u/zavorak_eth Aug 27 '24

Step right up Christians. Do the right thing and begin taking care of these babies you wanted so badly. Come on, don't be shy, you lying twerps.

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u/KalaUke505 Aug 27 '24

When old men force women to be breeder cows, expect them to abandon their calves. 🐄~moo.

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u/_daddyissues666 Aug 27 '24

Time for those pro lifers to step up and adopt all of the babies that they demanded be born and thrown into the foster care system.

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u/Admirable-Sink-2622 Aug 27 '24

Jail if you terminate - jail if you abandon.

Women have been turned into second class citizens

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u/dorky2 Aug 27 '24

And poverty, ridicule, and disdain if you keep your child.

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u/StayOnlineRepair Aug 27 '24

Yep. Everyone blames the single mom trying their best but no one gives a shit about the absent father

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u/BigNutDroppa Aug 27 '24

Unless they’re black, then they use them as an example.

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u/CondescendingShitbag Aug 27 '24

🌍👨🏻‍🚀🔫👨🏻‍🚀 "Always have been"

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u/padawanninja Aug 27 '24

They aren't citizens, get that thru your head.

They're organic incubators, with nursemaid functionality built in.

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u/tobyqueef404 Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 28 '24

Fucked around and found out. Way to go, Texas.

So, are the bible beaters gonna blame the babies being in the system and using state healthcare for RAiSiNg THeIr TaX DoLlArS now, like they always do with anyone who gets state help, or nah? That's all they can ever think of.

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u/UnrecoveredSatellite Aug 27 '24

Surely the Christian conservatives will swoop in and adopt them, right..........right!?

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u/saeyia Aug 27 '24

What's worse, they'll use the terrible outcomes of their horrific polices to justify making more terrible policies. It's a self-licking ice cream cone...

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u/anubis_xxv Aug 27 '24

Ireland banned abortion for years under the boot of the Catholic church and we're only now discovering the remains of thousands of babies left to die in Mother & Baby homes for unwed and single mothers, ran by an order of nuns.

This is your future.

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u/AngusMcTibbins Aug 27 '24

Fucking dystopian.

Vote pro-choice, my friends. Vote blue

https://www.texasdemocrats.org/

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u/Adventurous_Custard8 Aug 27 '24

It gets even worse. Maternal mortality rates have increased significantly in red states with strict abortion bans. https://sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-higher-maternal-mortality-rates-states-more-abortion-restrictions

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u/mikeybagodonuts Aug 27 '24

Well, I’m sure the pro lifers are just lined up to adopt these children, right? Right?

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u/0vertones Aug 27 '24

Huh. It's already like our society has been through this before and decided that letting people make their own choices was the best idea.

Right wingers are basically just barbarians at this point.

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u/Substantial_Ad_7027 Aug 27 '24

As long as they aren’t aborted. That’s all that counts. If they are strong babies they will pull themselves up by the bootstraps and make it.

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https://abc13.com/post/harris-county-sees-surge-baby-abandonment-cases-amid-texas-restrictive-abortion-laws/15222521/

The article mentions that mothers can leave their babies at fire stations, police stations, hospitals etc. They just have to tell an employee that they're seeking a "safe haven" for their baby.

Like that's really easy to do! Feeling judged. The employee trying to convince them to keep their baby. Feeling guilty.

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u/South-Ad-9635 Aug 27 '24

Who could have predicted this? Besides -everyone- I mean...

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u/Obsidian-Phoenix Aug 27 '24

I’m waiting for Trump to blame this on VP Harris, not realise it’s Harris County.

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u/Square-Wing-6273 Aug 27 '24

Shocking. I never would have expected something like this to happen when you take women's rights out of the hands of women.

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u/SurturOne Aug 27 '24

Everyone: this is gonna happen!

Texas, for some reason: surprised pikachu face

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u/atomic_chippie Aug 27 '24

Mark 10, 13-15: Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.

Sounds like the church will welcome those babies in,Texas ladies!

Joel Osteen's Lakewood church is 3700 Southwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77027.

Greg Abbott's Govenor's Mansion is 1010 Colorado St, Austin, TX 78701.

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u/sincethenes Aug 27 '24

Isn’t this the point? It’s not about God or Ethical Values …. It’s about throwing more babies headfirst into a system designed to make them fail as adults. Remember, prisons are for profit now. As population numbers dwindle, we have to keep shareholders happy somehow, right?

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u/Unreasonable-Skirt Aug 28 '24

You mean eliminating the ability to abort an unwanted pregnancy results in unwanted babies?

How ever were we supposed to have known. It’s not like the exact same thing happened before abortion was legalized. Oh. It was.

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u/Original_Blossomer Aug 27 '24

Yeah, no shit. People, women have been telling you that this would happen since ages ago. They don’t want children. You forced them to have them anyway. Deal with it.

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u/ratavieja Aug 28 '24

Great opportunity to the anti abortion pro life activists to adopt them