REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS MARCH HELD IN DOWNTOWN BRENHAM
Local and area residents met in downtown Brenham this (Saturday) morning to hold a march for reproductive rights.
An estimated 50 to 75 people gathered at the courthouse square in protest of Texas’ restrictions on abortion.
Marilyn Schulz, president of the Washington County chapter of Texas Democratic Women, says women’s rights are not a partisan issue.
Schulz says the new abortion law affects everyone in some way and encourages the public to “take their rights in their hands.”
A similar march was held in downtown Brenham last fall following the passage of Texas’ ban on abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually around the six-week mark of pregnancy. The new law bans abortions at all stages of pregnancy unless the mother’s life is threatened.
I feel the need to inform.
Abortion – a medical procedure that eliminates fetal tissue from a uterus, see also D&C, the same procedure that has to be performed on approximately 50% of missed miscarriages and you probably know someone or even several someones who have had this procedure done
Think that a D&C, this routine medical procedure, isn’t also restricted because it is necessary and a doctor will easily perform this for any woman who needs one? Like maybe your daughter, or daughter-in-law, or even YOU? Think again. I’m very surprised that these laws restricting services which a licensed physician can perform to SAVE THE LIFE OF HIS PATIENT haven’t run off more certified OB/GYNs from our state. Didn’t Brenham just have a problem with a LACK OF gynecological practitioners in our area? Yeah. Way to go Texas. Way to go. Big help. Right on. Idiocy is rampant, isn’t it?
I was born to a woman who either didn’t plan me, didn’t want me, or didn’t think she could take care of me and was placed for adoption soon after. To those supporting these protesters, I ask: why are your lives more valuable than mine?
I’ve never been a big fan of JD “John Dean” but what he said in the comment above about women and men should have equal rights I have to totally agree with the man. America is allegedly the land of the free. Men , women , blacks Jews, Etc should have equal rights in this country. No man should be telling a woman what she has the right to do or not to do.
Thank you sir, but I am not John Dean.
I don’t recognize any of the Pro-Abortion folks? Do You?
Why do you assume that we are not from Brenham? These are the same remarks as last year. Geez! Get over it! YES, pro-choice people exist here in the bubble of Brenham, Texas. We do not hide from you. We run businesses, we walk by you in Wal-mart, you see us at the gas station, you walk by us in the parks, you sit by us at the football games. YES! We do exist in this town. And guess what? We are going to be in line to vote just as you will be come November 8th.
That’s it! I can’t take it anymore!!! An abortion is not healthcare. It is murder. Novel idea, how about you not sleep around and be held responsible for your actions and stop thinking that this is birth control? There is nothing in The constitution that says you have the right to kill a baby. The beginning of life starts with a detected heartbeat, the end of life is when the heart beat can no longer be detected.
Show me where it is written in the constitution, bill of rights, county or city by laws that you have the legal right to sleep around and kill a baby in your womb because you didn’t feel like being responsible for your actions or you just don’t want to have a baby with the guy you just laid down with? If you don’t want to take chances of getting pregnant then maybe you should opt to be neutered instead just like we do with our pets. You’re acting like a bunch of animals. Problem solved!!! Why do you want to have abortions is a great question. Funny how the living want death for the unborn.
And if you are raped?? Made pregnant by your father or in other cases of incest? What if you are 12 years old??? The problem with the people making these laws is that they would easily have access to abortion for their mistress or daughter. They would not hesitate to arrange for an abortion for their daughter or mistress or wife if she was raped. Also, all of the politicians who want every conceived child to be born, as soon as they arrive, refuse to offer any assistance. They are not right to life – they are right to birth only. There are also many instances where the baby is miscarried or dies in the uterus. There are now instances where a doctor is afraid to perform any procedure and the woman is left to suffer and perhaps be unable to have children in the future. I doubt if most women seeking abortions are doing so just because they want to. I am really tired of the ignorance of some people who look at this issue and see it as just a means of killing an unborn child. I am also tired of old men in congress and in Austin telling me what I can and can’t do with my body. The decision to have an abortion is a matter between a woman and her doctor. It is not my business or anyone else’s.
You have some very valid points. And I agree with you on some. But what if, a pregnancy is the result of rape? Or some young girl who has been sexually assaulted by a family member realizes she’s pregnant? Shouldn’t they have an option? Their choice was already brutally taken away in an act of violence, they should at least have the choice of going forward with the pregnancy or ending it? I know Abbott is pushing the Plan B, but not everyone has access to that.
“Abortion is healthcare”?
No it isn’t – not only does it end life (including a clump of cells) the potential side effects show it isn’t.
And there’s nothing that says we cannot travel to get one or but the abortion pill online.
These – persons – make me ASHAMED to be female because they keep lying and have a distorted sense of what healthcare is.
Especially as if you’re having social sex that is leading to the abortion of the baby (must common reason for them), you’re gambling your health with STDs, HIV or AIDS.
Best healthcare: don’t have sex.
Sorry to have missed the opportunity to counter-protest this trash.
A separate beating heart is not your body. It is a life created by actions taken with knowledge that a pregnancy is possible. Take control of your body, abstain or use contraceptives. Abortion is not healthcare. *Typically*, healthcare involves improving ones health, not taking a life and anyone stating otherwise lacks reason. Make a reasoned argument for the taking of innocent life, if such a thing exists, or sit it out.
Way to go girls! So sorry I missed it. I’ll be at the voting booth with my opinion.
Where were you people when they were making people and in some cases still are insisting on unwanted vaccines just to keep employed? My body my choice my ???
The only people who should be making laws about, or voting on laws about abortion, are people who have a uterus. This law in Texas is going to do more harm than any good it will ever do. Freedom of personal choice is supposed to be one of the Freedoms that us as Americans like to show off to the world. Choosing what you do with your body is supposed to be a right for men and women in this country. This should not be about Republican or Democrat. It should be about Freedom. I do not have a uterus, I am a Republican, and I think the law is terrible. It needs to change.
How about teaching your sons to abstain so they won’t “become fathers before they are ready”? Responsible parenting teaches responsibility.
I agree with Ms Shultz that this should NOT be a Partisan Issue, But The Democrats sure are using it to their advantage during this Election Cycle. The SAME people who told us that Covid Vaccines should be mandatory no matter what we wanted to do with our body, Are now saying that they want people to choose what’s they feel is right with their bodies. Hypocrites
all of you
What about the babies rights? Who speaks for them, they don’t have a choice, they want to live.
So the same government that shouldnt be in control of health care should totally be in control of womens bodies right?
They don’t “want” for anything. Including to live because they haven’t been born yet. It doesn’t work like that.
Agreed. It’s not healthcare is someone always ends up dead.
Then please be the advocate for every zygote conceived and become a foster parent or even adopt children who will be given up, especially those born into CPS custody, those physically impaired, and minority children. Or to make this kind of situation better for those involved, donate your time and money to a pregnancy crisis center or sponsor a child-care scholarship or endowment for low-income mothers. If anyone who is pro-life is really advocating for the life of every child conceived, I’d like to remind them that the life of that child continues after their date of birth. Also you may be condemning a child to a life that even you wouldn’t want to be born into, so forcing a woman to give birth to a baby that she isn’t prepared to parent isn’t always the best option for either of them. Thank you for your concern, but if you aren’t acting to prevent or help with the issue, arguing for a fetus that you truly do not care about is not the answer.
Amen to this!!!! This is the most real situation from beginning to end comment I’ve seen. While everyone else wants to point blame everywhere except how some hypercritical conservatives really act when these children are born and are the ones causing trouble in their kids classrooms and so they then advocate for them to be removed. If the child that they adopt doesn’t act right they give them back quickly. They are the same ones who choose to hide their children’s legal mishaps and because they know the people in DA’s office they get to keep their child’s record clean or hidden for their successful future. If the problem is healthcare costs, then fix that part of it to an extent. Y’all are just trying to do your political bull!!!! If they took the party titles away, I think we’d all be surprised!
Well said .
Right on ladies! Bless you and everyone who supports the peoples right to manage their own lives.
That unborn baby is another life. It is a separate set of DNA. Abortion ends a life.
Actually a clump of cells till it is born.
I’ve been born and although I’m not a scientist or a doctor I’m pretty sure I’m still technically a clump of cells…. albeit a bigger clump, but a clump nonetheless.
And a clump that was given the opportunity to live outside the womb as well as inside.
If this kind of thought is good…why not kill a child born with defects because they don’t meet your standard…or why not kill them because they’re left handed…or you don’t like the color of their hair or any other reason decide? After all, you have the “right” to “manage” your life. Think I’m being over the top? Look at so many aspects of moral decay. Everyone is fine with young ladies walking around leaving nothing to the imagination…TV shows with explicit sex for children to watch. Sex outside of a committed relationship. Go ahead…have fun with whoever, whenever you want. What other aspects of life should just say sure…go ahead and have sex with a 10 year old…you have the “right” to manage your life.
How about really “managing” your life and take steps to prevent getting pregnant in the first place instead of killing a child!!! Ever thought about that?
How is disposing of a new budding life a right…
Bless them??? Wow, what about the commandment about not killing?
oh sure bless those who support infanticide. It isn’t the Lord G-d Almighty who will bless them.
Blessings to those who want to kill babies? Do you feel that way about those who haven’t taken the covid shot as well? Also, can you define what a woman is since those you support cannot. So, these “ladies” inspire you. But are they ladies? Men can have an abortion too right?
What about the babies right to live? And, abortion is not healthcare!
If I was the father of a child with consensual sex that would be murder of my child. Where is my RIGHTS ? I always though it took two male and female? Where is GOD in our lives? We all have rights not just male are female we are all Gods creatures. THOU SHALL NOT KILL