There's Magic Outside Hierarchies: May 2022

Under Texas Gov Abbott, Child Gun Death has Doubled, before Uvalde

Children have become more than twice as likely to die from gun violence as they were before Gov. Greg Abbott (R) took office seven years ago.

The shooting in Uvalde has once again cast attention on Texas Republicans, who, facing a string of mass shootings and rising gun violence, have used their stranglehold over state government to loosen gun restrictions.

Abbott’s strategy of loosening up gun laws hasn’t worked. He’s presided over rising child gun deaths, rising gun violence overall, and several of the country’s deadliest mass shootings — Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe High School, El Paso, and now Uvalde.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/youth-gun-deaths-in-texas-doubled-under-greg-abbott-then-came-uvalde_n_628ec3a8e4b0cda85dba0d11?utm_campaign=share_facebook&ncid=engmodushpmg00000003&fbclid=IwAR3u8xWR2Y6oSr6beR2rd3MFNX0mHMTE9P-LMUgRX1YAt0D56nmiIA9zvFg

Republicans From Small, Largely Rural, Predominately White Republicans Keep Mass Murders Coming

It’s highly unlikely that the massacre of at least 19 schoolchildren and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, and a commanding majority who supports the central priorities of gun-control advocates, including universal background checks and an assault-weapons ban, will result in legislative action.

That’s because gun control is one of many issues in which majority opinion in the nation runs into the brick wall of a Senate rule—the filibuster—that provides a veto over national policy to a minority of the states, most of them small, largely rural, preponderantly white, and dominated by Republicans.

Time to get Republicans out of office.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/senate-state-bias-filibuster-blocking-gun-control-legislation/638425/

Abortion Restriction Harms Poorer Women Most, Puts Women in Poverty

It's empirically clear that cutting off abortion access for more women would mean widening already stark economic and racial disparities for generations to come.

Those women denied an abortion were four times as likely to be living in poverty years later.

For children born, there's a literature shows that there are detrimental effects on children's outcomes. When they grow up, they're less likely to attain higher education themselves, they're more likely to be involved in crime, have lower adult earnings.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/27/1099739656/do-restrictive-abortion-laws-actually-reduce-abortion-a-global-map-offers-insigh

Rate of Abortions Same in Countries with Legal and Illegal Abortions

In countries where abortion is broadly legal, there are between 36 and 47 abortions performed annually per 1,000 women, ages 15 to 49. And what about in countries. In where abortions are prohibited altogether, there are between 31 and 51 abortions annually per 1,000 women, on average.

In countries where abortion is broadly legal, use of contraception is quite high. The rate of unintended pregnancies tends to be low (between 53 to 66 unintended pregnancies annually per 1,000 women, ages 15 to 49). But the percentage of those pregnancies ending in abortion is higher because abortions tend to be accessible.

In countries where abortions are heavily restricted, use of contraception tends to be low. The rate of unintended pregnancies is high (between 70 to 91 unintended pregnancies annually per 1,000 women, ages 15 to 49). But the percentage of those pregnancies ending in an abortion is low, likely because abortions aren't easily accessible.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/27/1099739656/do-restrictive-abortion-laws-actually-reduce-abortion-a-global-map-offers-insigh

Republicans: Life Is Valuable only if Rallies Their Base

Defense of fetus helps the GOP to rally their base, but they don't care about life.

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/opinion/cartoons/2012/12/20/editorial-cartoons-on-gun-control-debate/1783343/

Men and Boys, Mostly White, Are Terrorizing this Country

Men and boys are shooting up this country, all sanctioned and supported by Republicans.

Top of the hierarchy, males, white, and Christian.