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People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.
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@Blort@social.tchncs.deHow long before they start proposing to build a wall around the state and make the neighboring states pay for it?
@Blort @georgetakei Or requiring all drivers to stop at checkpoints, present their papers, and reasons for traveling out of state. Reasons which would have to be registered with the state in a beurocracy that would, by comparison, make the DMV seem easy to navigate.
@TechyDad @Blort @georgetakei I can imagine mandatory pregnancy tests at state border checkpoints and just a general prohibition of traveling out of state for pregnant women in the theocratic states
@Blort @georgetakei as a Texan not currently living in Texas: I mean, would we object to fencing them in?
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@Stacky @Blort @georgetakei The question is only how high the fence.
And there are innocents hostages inside.
And to take another page from the good old times of the Cold War, perhaps a nice minefield around Texas too, to make sure no one tries to pass the state line outside the office border stations along the interstates.
@Blort @georgetakei as a new Mexican, I agree to pay for this, so long as we get to keep the Texas part of El Paso.
@Blort @georgetakei You mean like with the Texas electricity grid.
Where the Texas consumer end up holding the bag, because GOP cannot accept Federal regulations, thus refuses to interconnect with the US backbone grids.
Hence Texas has a much higher tendency to blackouts in extreme weather, plus extreme pricing during such events.
I'm sure the idea initially was to make DC surrender, on the regulation, but it is what it is.