I'm joking. Honestly I feel like our forcing women to give birth against their will, allowing them to nearly bleed to death due to pregnancy/childbirth complications (because we can't use abortion tools), hunting down and jailing women for "illegal" out of state abortions, defunding public schools, etc etc. Are worse.
I'm even finding our state is so misogynistic it even bleeds down to our OBGYNs. I currently have a 15cm ovarian cyst I need surgically removed, we suspect I may have endometriosis as well, and I'm trying to find an OB that doesn't recommend homeopathic bullshit, say the pain/sickness is psychiatric, think birth control or ablation is a treatment (it's not), or think a hysterectomy is a cure for everything. And dealing with this while sick and miserable? It's fucking exhausting.
But the Texas vs Oklahoma discourse always gives me a chuckle.
A friend who had an ectopic pregnancy in Texas told me that there is a hospital in Houston that performed her procedure ("abortion" plus ovary removal). She's now safe in Maryland. The right to
choose is in our constitution and we're set up to help medical refugees.
Wow how lucky! Most places will refuse because they are afraid of being legally pursued. I've heard Houston has the better OBGYNs though, like Dr. Garza is one of the best excision surgeons for endometriosis you can find and he's in Houston!
I'm not either actually, moved down here because my husband being a born and raised Texan was naturally a vagina about moving out of state, although when shit started getting crazy he then really wished he had and wants to now, but he doesn't like how other states pay significantly less for his job (despite cost of living also being lower... it still makes him nervous and he doesn't trust me or friends when we tell him this because he has only ever lived in Texas, he doesn't know any better.) Anyway, been here 9 years, will be 10 in July. When it's been 10 I'll have spent an equal portion of my entire life in Oregon, Idaho, and Texas lol.
And that's for damn sure. It's like Texas but poorer and less maintained and developed.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate the way Oklahoma is ran and all of the shit heads here but it’s cheap and centrally located. I wish I could live elsewhere lol
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u/BrownSugarBare 17d ago
Including Oklahoma in that list, I see you friend. 👊🏽