We’re on the precipice of rape being legalized in Texas.
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://aidaccess.org/en/ https://teafund.org/ https://wrrap.org/about-wrrap/ https://abortionfunds.org/
If you need help getting an abortion:
https://www.plancpills.org/ https://aidaccess.org/
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://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
26,000 rapes in the last nine months? If that’s true, they should be focusing on that more than abortion.
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?
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.
In their minds, 26,000 future workers or prison slaves. So for them, it’s all going according to plan.
That’s a fuckload of rape considering how small the window to actually get pregnant is.
Everything’s bigger in texas.
Except brain
No sign of how they came up with that number… Even for how messy that state is, that number seems quite made up and too high (and I sincerely hope so)
It’s obviously an estimate, but “no sign” seems a little bit of an undersell.
Because to our knowledge no recent reliable state-level data on completed vaginal rapes (forced and/or drug/alcohol–facilitated vaginal penetration) are available, we analyzed multiple data sources to estimate reported and unreported rapes in states with total abortion bans (Table 15). We also estimated the number of resulting pregnancies based on findings from prior research on rape-related pregnancy rates (eMethods in Supplement 1). This study followed the relevant sections of the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guideline. The institutional review boards of our institutions did not consider analyses of publicly available data human participants research.
To estimate the contemporary incidence of vaginal rape nationally, we analyzed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) 2016 to 2017 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence survey (which used special methods to accurately ascertain reported and unreported rapes). We adjusted for the fraction of survivors who were female individuals aged 15 to 45 years using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) annual survey on criminal victimization (which is known to underestimate rapes5)3 and further adjusted for the percentage of rapes that are vaginal.1 We calculated 95% CIs using measures of uncertainty from the CDC survey. The CDC and BJS surveys do not include state-level data; thus, we apportioned the 2022 nationwide rape estimate among states based on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most recent Uniform Crime Reports, which include rapes reported to law enforcement in 2019.
To estimate rape-related pregnancies, we multiplied the state-level estimate of vaginal rapes by the fraction likely to result in pregnancy (eMethods in Supplement 1)6 and then adjusted for the number of months between July 1, 2022, and January 1, 2024, that a total abortion ban was in effect. We used Stata, version 16.1 (StataCorp), to analyze the BJS survey data and Microsoft Excel for other calculations.
You’re totally right, my simplified viewer didn’t make see the link!
However it really is an estimation based on previous years mad stuff… and while I’d have no problem in accepting a similar math in a less important case, I somehow am not keen to accept them as possibly valid (again, I hope so)
Some parts of the USA are really more than utterly disgusting. And we all know it’s not pro-life, it’s pro-cheaplabour.
What was the number before that?
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.
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.
This is what they wanted, right? Punish the women and punish children because a woman got raped?
“But the poor man has to either go to jail, or pay child support! It sucks for him, too!”
So… something that’s bad for everyone (except for the rich, who can get safe abortions out of state in secret). Sounds like what the Republicans want!
And cheap uneducated stressed out labor
26k more dissidents in 20 years thanks.
Nobody else is saying this, so I will. I’m sceptical of this figure. Recognising that spousal rape is rape, it’s very hard to believe this number. “Rape-related” is very vague. It could mean women who have been raped before, who later become pregnant consensually. Pregnancies due to rape are simply not this common.
Just say the fetus is gay. there’s always a loophole.
V O T E !
