Texas Women Are Inducing Their Own Abortions

[BlueCollar]

2. voting as a progressive in Texas

Is an exercise in futility. The system has been gamed to ensure that Christian Conservatives/Evangelicals, Homophobes, Bigots, Gunners and Anglo's run the legislature and every elected office.

Unlike the Federal model, there is no separation of Church and State model and the Judicial branch of the system is nothing more than a tool for the Church and the Prison Industry.

Your vote doesn't count even if you cast it here. With a few exceptions the state of Texas has evolved into a Theocracy.

I go through the motions knowing that I am irrelevant and that my vote doesn't count.

The only way to protect a woman's right to choose in Texas is to support organizations like Planned Parenthood, the Texas Freedom Network, the ACLU etc. and hope like hell they can influence the government in Washington to protect Texas residents from the tyranny of the state.

I write this after having lived in Texas for almost twenty five years. As a straight white male, I enjoy a special privilege. I cannot begin to imagine how incredibly difficult it must be to live here as a person of color, a woman or a member of the LGBT community.

Sorry for the rant....