# Texas Anti-abortion Law, Unintended consequences? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-anti-abortion-law-unintended-consequences/950122 "2021-09-05T01:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-anti-abortion-law-unintended-consequences/950122/70 "2021-09-08T17:29:05Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I’ve been thinking this whole time; these people must not like sex bc it sure seems like they are doing everything in their power to make women afraid of it. [When sex is outlawed only ~~outlaws~~ rapists will have sex!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-governor-abbott-has-the-secret-to-stopping-all-rape-and-has-decided-to-let-it-continue/950309) Obligagory link to that Pit thread over there: > [@Texas Governor Abbott has the secret to stopping all rape and has decided to let it continue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-governor-abbott-has-the-secret-to-stopping-all-rape-and-has-decided-to-let-it-continue/950309): > > In defending the Texas abortion law against the charge that it makes no exception for rape or incest (which is probably also rape, because no one is thinking about consenting adults when they mention the incest exception), he says the law doesn’t need that exception because they will stop the rapists. I think stopping rapists is a wonderful idea! I wonder why no one has done it before. Why hasn’t Abbott done it already? It boggles the mind. Here’s one of a ton of available cites: What an… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-anti-abortion-law-unintended-consequences/950122)._