1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas. Just another daily reminder that for all the transparent reimagining and gaslighting going on within the GOP re reproductive rights, we do not, and will not, believe you. And here’s some of why that is… Last Friday DJT announced that he would vote against a Florida ballot measure that would essentially enshrine in the Florida state constitution the abortion rights formerly protected by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Why? Because even he was forced to bow to popular support for abortion rights by expressing unease at the state’s current six-week ban—a cutoff reached before most women know they’re pregnant. Antiabortionist activists promptly launched fierce attacks on him. So, on Friday, he of the ever-flexible moral stance, switched his position and announced he would vote against restoring access to abortion in Florida.  Just further confirmation of watch what he does not what he says. If ending abortion rights make his people love him more, he’s all in. It would be delusional for women to believe otherwise. And his chronically misogynist VP candidate does not help the GOP case. To him all women need to pregnant or what’s the point of them. Portents of things to come…On October 1, in Louisiana, a law will go into effect that reclassifies the drug misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. Misoprostol can be used for abortion. It is also used for routine reproductive care and during medical emergencies to treat postpartum hemorrhage. It is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medications, a list containing those medications that are the most effective and safe to meet a health care system’s most important needs. After antiabortion activists targeted the drug, Louisiana governor Jeff Landry signed a law reclassifying it as a controlled dangerous substance. The reclassification means that the drug will no longer be easily available on obstetric hemorrhage carts. “Take it off the carts?” one doctor said to Lorena O’Neil of the Louisiana Illuminator. “That’s death. That’s a matter of life or death.” In response the Harris campaign said: “Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is the reason Louisiana women who are suffering from miscarriages or bleeding out after birth can no longer receive the critical care they would have received before Trump overturned Roe. Because of Trump, doctors are scrambling to find solutions to save their patients and are left at the whims of politicians who think they know better. Trump is proud of what he’s done. He brags about it. And if he wins, he will threaten to bring the crisis he created for Louisiana women to all 50 states.” And there you have it. The truth between the lies.