And of course Texans will make a point to shame these women, label them irresponsible, and demand they and their children suffer in squallor, because sex is the privilege of those with economic means and they need to pay dearly for disregarding that.

The Republicans must be drunk on schadenfreude from this. They don’t give a shit about life, the rich ones wanted more desperate, unwanted capital batteries in the pipeline for exploitation, mission accomplished, and the poor ones just love watching people who aren’t them suffer to feel superior.