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I've never read The Handmaid's Tale or seen its adaptation but I think I'll pick it up after seeing these recent developments.
Vote. That’s the only way to make any change. Republican Party is so far gone, there is no hope they will listen to any pleas or letters from experts
Well no, that's the second way to make change. There are two other boxes after that.
The only way that's happening is a change in leadership.
Unfortunately, that's going to come down to GOP members losing a wife, mother, or daughter, and even then, they hate women so much that might not be enough.
That won't happen because when a GOP member or their family needs an abortion, they get sent off to a state where it's legal for it to be done.
Reproductive rights for me but not for thee,
Slow down, my friend. First, recognize that women have and do vote Republican, too. As their friends or other women in their communities have to deal with horrible situations that are even vaguely similar to these, you can imagine how quickly their views are going to shift.
Actually, you don't even have to imagine it. You can just look at some of the data we've seen from early voting around the country. It turns out that when you have laws that f*** over women in obvious and horrible ways, a lot of women react negatively to it. A fair amount of men, too.
There's an election coming up, and there's state and local seats up for grabs. We can't flip Texas in a single cycle, but these goons didn't get where they are all at once, either.
Texas Lawmakers: LOL No