Texas leading women back...to the back alley

Texas, not content with leading the nation in state sponsored murder of undesirables convicted of heinous crimes, is now leading the US in leading women seeking abortions back to the back alley. In the last four years Texas abortion restrictions have closed or will close 38 abortion providers, leaving just six to handle the 75,000 Texas women seeking abortions yearly. The last 41 years since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision brought a dramatic drop in unsafe back alley abortions that sent thousands of women to hospitals for complications and left hundreds dead. Now Texas reproductive health care workers note a spike in abortions caused by use of unsafe black market drugs, botched illegal abortions and even women falling down stairs or having their partners punch their stomachs out of sheer desperation. Compounding this trail of tears, Texas funding cuts have closed 76 clinics providing birth control services, causing more unwanted pregnancies and swelling the parade to the back alley. Around the nation, nearly 300 anti abortion bills are pending in conservative state legislatures. They can all look to Texas for inspiration in the never ending conservative war against women. Maybe the Lone Star State should change the state motto from "Friendship" to "Deep In The Hate of Texas".