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Monday, September 12th, 2022

Why a woman’s doctor warned her not to get pregnant in Texas

Author:     Elizabeth Cohen and Danielle Herman
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     Sat September 10, 2022 | 8:12 PM ET
 Link: Why a woman’s doctor warned her not to get pregnant in Texas
Stephan:   I am beginning to see more and more stories like this as the women in Red states, who have previously either not recognized their subordination or considered it an abstraction, confront the new post-Roe reality. It has already deeply wounded healthcare in the Red states, as physicians leave or accept the state now commands how they deliver care for their female patients. My hope is that women in Red states will rise up against the christofascist Republican policies that limit a woman's ability to control her own body.
Kailee DeSpain Credit: CNN

Nine years ago, Cade DeSpain messaged a friend about a cute girl he saw on her Facebook feed.

The friend introduced him to Kailee Lingo, her sorority sister at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. Kailee remembers that when she and Cade met, it was “a connection at first sight.”

A month after college graduation, Kailee and Cade married in Marble Falls, Texas. They’re both proud to be native Texans: Kailee’s family has lived there for generations, and Cade’s ancestors are among Texas’ “Old Three Hundred,” the original families that joined Stephen F. Austin to settle the area in the 1800s.

At the time, the DeSpains were both passionately anti-abortion.

“I was just your quintessential pro-life Texan,” Kailee, 29, told CNN in a recent interview.

“I was raised in central Texas by extremely Republican parents and grandparents,” Cade, 31, said. “One hundred percent pro-life.”

Kailee and Cade have supported abortion rights since 2016, when she had a miscarriage at 16 weeks and was hospitalized for severe complications, including blood clots and infection. It was one of three miscarriages she had in the […]

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