Texas makes abortion readily available -- for the wealthy

[KamaAina]

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/human-interest/texas-womens-rights/

The requirement for abortion providers in the Lone Star State to be ambulatory surgical centers has managed to close all but 8 of Texas’ abortion clinics. According to a map of US Census Bureau median income statistics published by The Huffington Post, only the wealthiest of Texans will have easy access to abortion services.

The law has managed to all but exclude women who don’t live in major metropolitan areas from having access to safe abortion services. If you’re going to cater to the Christian Right, you have to make sure the wealthy campaign donors still have an outlet for hypocrisy when it’s their teenage daughter who makes a mistake....

It’s no secret that conservatives love to complain about the poor. The GOP spin machine has done a fantastic job of energizing its new-found base of ignorant segregationists by blaming the struggling economy on the poor and claiming them as the sole reason for President Obama’s electoral success.

One would think an influx of unwanted pregnancies from the poorest Texan communities would be something conservatives would consider when they claim all life to be precious. (That and the record number of executions they’ve carried out.) The abortion issue has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with the women of states like Texas having someone else’s religious beliefs pushed on them in a clear violation of the 1st Amendment and judicial precedent.

Yet another site that puts its headlines in ALL CAPS so I have to keyboard them.

[jwirr]

1. Not surprising. The rich have alway had some sort of access to abortion.