[Shatnerz]

> Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter.

Are women not safe in these states? I'm not sure I'm picking up whatever you are implying.

[midasz]

Women die because they're not allowed to abort nonviable fetuses that would also likely kill them. Seems very unsafe, I wouldn't want to be a woman there.

[fourseventy]

"Abortion in Texas is illegal in all cases, except to save the mother's life, or prevent substantial impairment of major bodily function." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Texas#:~:text=Abor....

[jnaina]

For non-Americans everywhere, disallowing abortion including nonviable pregnancies sounds barbaric. America is viewed as the most advanced nation in the world. But these Taliban-level backwardness is mind boggling.

America was never this regressive and tribal when I went to school there in the mid 80's til the 1990.

[mjparrott]

That is terrible. How often does this situation happen?

[imglorp]

Also a parent with similar concerns including book bans, systematic weakening of science, education and library institutions, unstable power during temperature extremes (TX), unrestrained gun violence, restrictions on sex ed, and encouraged intolerance of gender differences. To name a few.

[a1o]

Yeah, they are really antagonistic to women, there are strict anti-abortion laws that even include travel bans

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/13/abortion-travel-ban-...

[JackMorgan]

Rural states often are significantly less safe for women, e.g. Texas ranks much higher than the national average, although Alabama and Florida are quite low in this dimension. https://www.statista.com/statistics/232563/forcible-rape-rat...

[spiderfarmer]

Alaska: 134 per 100k, The Netherlands: 7.1 per 100k.

Something is very wrong in the USA.

[jorts]

They’re likely referring to the effects of the Dobbs ruling [1].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_H....