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The Baby Problem In Texas Isn’t Because Of Abortion Bans
Every year, seven thousand babies are abandoned in America and it is not an access to abortion issue
A little girl sits in jail in Houston, Texas. She’s not really a little girl, she’s eighteen, but she looks like a little girl. Big scared eyes, dark hair pulled into a ponytail. They shackled her legs. Talk to her behind glass.
They set bail at two hundred thousand dollars. Said she’s a flight risk and they had to make sure she can’t flee before she’s prosecuted.
When they first arrested her, she struggled to remember the sequence of the events of that day, which is pretty common in traumatic events, but it was all caught on camera. As she remembers the details, she cries a lot.
Her name is Everilda and she could get up to twenty years in prison for abandoning her rapist’s baby.
On December 30, 2024, Texas authorities rescued two little girls who were dumped at the border by smugglers. The girls are five and nine and had nothing but the clothes on their back. The older girl wearing a snoopy shirt and clutching a torn scrap of paper with a name and address written on it.
I saw a photo and it broke my heart a little. The five year old smiling wide enough you…
