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Republican abortion policies are called TRAP laws.
That stands for Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers.
What they do is come up with bogus reasons for creating new abortion laws under the guise of 'protecting women.'
(Actually, there is no science to back up what they claim for reasoning.)
The result of this is many Republican controlled states now have extremely restricted access to abortion. They have taken away public funding of abortions and placed overly restrictive requirements on abortion providers, designed not to protect women but to shut down abortion clinics and remove availability.
Now, in many States, almost no abortion clinics are left. Some states are down to one clinic.
The rich can whip out the credit card, drive long distance, but the poor lack the resources for extended road trips.
Republicans have also fought to remove public access to availability of low cost birth control.
What this means in the overall picture is that, for the wealthy, this is no problem. All they have to do is travel to a place where they can get an abortion if they want. And they have plenty of money to use for acquiring birth control.
But the poor lack these resources, so they are the ones being forced to have more unplanned and unwanted babies.
The predictable result is that the birth rate among poor American women is higher than the birth rate for wealth American women. Because of Republicans, we have far more babies being born into poverty than wealth. (And they have the nerve to blame Democrats for being unable to deal with rising poverty rates.) This makes no sense, as Republicans are forcing the demographics to support Democrats over time, since the poor tend to vote Democratic instead of Republican. Republicans are marginalizing their own base. Go figure. Is it any wonder the nation is turning blue, and hateful Trump is the Republicans last gasp at power.
This curve shows it all:
US Birth Rate By Wealth
That stands for Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers.
What they do is come up with bogus reasons for creating new abortion laws under the guise of 'protecting women.'
(Actually, there is no science to back up what they claim for reasoning.)
The result of this is many Republican controlled states now have extremely restricted access to abortion. They have taken away public funding of abortions and placed overly restrictive requirements on abortion providers, designed not to protect women but to shut down abortion clinics and remove availability.
Now, in many States, almost no abortion clinics are left. Some states are down to one clinic.
The rich can whip out the credit card, drive long distance, but the poor lack the resources for extended road trips.
Republicans have also fought to remove public access to availability of low cost birth control.
What this means in the overall picture is that, for the wealthy, this is no problem. All they have to do is travel to a place where they can get an abortion if they want. And they have plenty of money to use for acquiring birth control.
But the poor lack these resources, so they are the ones being forced to have more unplanned and unwanted babies.
The predictable result is that the birth rate among poor American women is higher than the birth rate for wealth American women. Because of Republicans, we have far more babies being born into poverty than wealth. (And they have the nerve to blame Democrats for being unable to deal with rising poverty rates.) This makes no sense, as Republicans are forcing the demographics to support Democrats over time, since the poor tend to vote Democratic instead of Republican. Republicans are marginalizing their own base. Go figure. Is it any wonder the nation is turning blue, and hateful Trump is the Republicans last gasp at power.
This curve shows it all:
US Birth Rate By Wealth