Greg Abbott is remarkable. Truly remarkable. Just when you think he can’t eff up anything worse than the last time, he manages to end up at the front of yet another debacle. Last winter, the grid was going out in his state, children were freezing to death in their beds, and a local nuclear power plant was minutes from going off line. Those were some dark days for Texas. Even Ted Cruz bailed on that one. Then in the summer, the grid started going out again and people were roasting to death. Now, for his fall debut, in his signature line of disasters, we have the Texas anti-abortion bill, that doesn’t allow exceptions even for rape and incest. Here’s what Abbott had to say about rape.

I’m sure I don’t need to repeat that in the real world most women don’t even begin to suspect that they’re pregnant until they’re clearly two or three weeks late. But Abbott doesn’t live in the real world, so why are we even discussing it?

Here’s a great spin on pro-life, the best one I’ve seen in fact.

Isn’t that grand? Think of how pro-life you can get. You can execute the woman who got the abortion and then the doctor who did the abortion, and then the counselor who advised the abortion, and how about the receptionist who scheduled the abortion and the Lyft driver who took the woman to the abortion? It’s marvelous. It’s so moral, this pro-life movement.

Tinderholt is a real prince. He’s a state representative from Tarrant County who’s had domestic violence charges filed against him and his voting record is precisely what you would expect from a complete misogynist. ReformAustin.org

Women across America are pushing forward and demanding change – in the workplace and at the ballot box. But whether it’s in Washington D.C. or Austin, politicians continue to look backwards when passing legislation.
As Reform Austin previously reported, State Representative Tony Tinderholt (R – Tarrant County) has a disturbing record of voting against bills for women’s health and failing to protect children. Tinderholt’s votes regarding domestic violence only causes further concern. His record includes:

  • HB 77 – Tinderholt opposed a study of the Dallas Men Against Abuse programs and other activities in the Dallas community addressing family violence.

  • HB 2455 – Tinderholt voted against the establishment of a task force to promote uniformity in the collection and reporting of information relating to family violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking.

  • HB 3327 – Tinderholt voted against a grant program to fund domestic violence high risk teams.

  • HB 3655 – Tinderholt opposed providing grants to encourage counties to utilize GPS monitoring in cases involving family violence as a tool to deter future violence.

  • HB 525 – Tinderholt opposed requiring domestic violence offenders to register on a public database after three convictions.

Tinderholt’s numerous votes against domestic violence prevention come as no surprise, since he had a restraining order filed against him after his first divorce in 1994. The restrictions listed in the restraining order included prohibition against:

  • “Threatening Petitioner in person, by telephone, or in writing to take unlawful action against any person.”
  • “Causing bodily injury to Petitioner or to a child of either party.”
  • “Destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property of one or both of the parties.”

This is backwards thinking. People like Tinderholt are involved in taking women’s rights back to the stone age, and Abbott is not in touch with reality. And Texas is a huge state. For any number of Americans in any state to live under such medieval tyranny is ludicrous but for a state the size of Texas it is truly unspeakable.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Someone needs to tell him that movie about arresting people because some computer determined they’d commit a specific crime years into the future was FICTION. Of course, he’s probably one of those idiots who believe The Flinstones was a documentary!

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  3. Help. I’m trapped in a Tim Burton movie. My head is spinning. Am I going mad? I didn’t grow up to find this shit barreling ALL of us toward collective suicide because of a minority of scarecrows/tinmen/cowardly lions, lacking a brain, a heart, & courage. Any alien social workers available? Planet earth is quickly turning into the Dark Ages. Ding. Dong. ” bring out ur dead “.

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  5. “People like Tinderholt are involved in taking women’s rights back to the stone age . . . .”

    To be fair to our preconceived notions of the stone age being so bad for women, we actually have the BRONZE age to thank for the anti-woman attitudes. And, some could actually point a finger directly at the Abrahamic family of religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) for getting the ball really going.

    Before Moses, women in most Middle Eastern cultures were pretty equal to men, mainly due to the existence of polytheistic religions in which goddesses were revered with as much devotion as gods. The city of Athens, Greece, for instance, considered the goddess Athena to be their patron (the city’s name derives directly from Athena). Until the Jewish Creation story was recounted, most religions treated the Earth as female and the Sky as male (Earth deities were commonly goddesses; Sky deities were typically gods) While the Abrahamic religions were developing, there were changes occurring in the polytheistic cultures as well–a development brought on largely by the onset of agriculture and dedicated farming. Where societies that had been largely “hunter-gatherer” cultures, men and women basically shared all duties; women might not be as likely to be in a large hunting party but they could still be found hunting smaller game (rabbits, birds) while “gathering” was a duty that both engaged in (a male hunting party that didn’t know how to forage for berries and mushrooms while seeking their larger prey was likely to have much success in the “hunting” aspect; it didn’t hurt that seeing a large bush stripped of its leaves and berries was a pretty good sign that there was something like a deer or wild ox–“gatherers” would be able to recognize the sign). But once “agriculture” came along, there was less need for the women to be as active in the food process, aside from cooking (even on modern family farms, it’s usually the boys and men who do the major “farming” work while the girls and women handle the “household” work).

  6. He’s going to arrest all the rapists? Oops, sorry Matt Gaetz.

    Yes! First in with the most obvious but still funny joke. To me. I think Gaetz’s imminent indictment is rib cracking hilarious.

  7. Guess he’s gonna start IMMEDIATELY with the 6,000+ rape kits back logged. If he’s so good at catching rapists, seems the number should be ZERO. Oh, with a great conviction rate. By the way, even if it were possible( sneezing bullshit ), how does that stop the NEXT RAPE MORON???

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