Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions | Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for "consensual sexual intercourse"

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Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"

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Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"

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Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"

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Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse"

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Students need to make a big fuss about this. I mean overwhelming the administration with complaints, demands to be transferred to different classes, no student should take a class from these two ever, if these two are required for your graduation plan then that needs to be a mass protest from students so no one is forced to be in their class.
I feel like women have every right to just give up on us men at this point.
- They kind of have. That's why they chose the bear.
- You mean yourself, right? If you relate to what these people are doing enough to lump yourself in with them, keep the rest of us normal people out of your generalisation.
  
  Yeah getting angry and defensive in the comments of this story of all stories will sure show them different huh?
  
  Would you let 10 deadly snakes into your home if only 1 would bite you? How about 9?
  Anyway while you're weighing that I'm going to be somewhere else doing lesbianism as someone who is bi but refuses to deal with men's bullshit.
  
  Ooof, sounds like somebody got scratched. It's always the ones on some constant scaring-the-hoes energy that gotta loudly and vocally separate themselves into the #NotAllMen bucket.
I'm a bit confused about the wording around students having to ask for leave from University.
Here in Australia, we have lectures, tutorials (which are more like classes) and assessment. Professors (we usually call them lecturers) can take attendance at tutorials and assign a percentage of your final grade to it, but it's not like a job where you have to call in if you're not going to come; you just don't turn up. Only two of my classes in either of my degrees counted attendance for marks.
For the easier classes you could (and people do) just not show up to classes and hand in the assessment before the due date, and still pass.
So is it like high school for you guys where you actually have to have an excuse for not attending?
- Rules vary a LOT by university in the US; there isn't one consistent standard.
  
  They even vary by professor. I had one Professor back in the day who did take attendance and I thought I was weird cuz no one else ever had no one else ever cared.
- I get the impression students in the US get treated sort of younger for longer, e.g their PhD students still attend classes.
  
  I think it varies a lot. None of my classes ever had attendance. But I have heard of other colleges where it was a norm for every class. Some colleges are just weirdly strict about stuff.
It's unbelievably creepy that these two guys are trying to concern themselves with anything at all to do with their students' bodies or health.
It just screams "got into teaching for the wrong reasons".
Anyone who ever stepped a foot on campus is aware of the fact that academia is full of sex pests abusing their power...
PhD programs are notorious for this and Adkins look the other way...
You want this PhD honey or are you going to throw it all away... Choice is yours!!!
Very hard to believe a group with even rudimentary education would place themselves in such a position
Another great reason why we need good, anonymous currency and more privacy in society. Everything's all fine and dandy till your bank or google maps rats you out.
- Your downvotes are uncharacteristic of the usual vibe on Lemmy. Google maps and your bank must have made accounts.
  
  Lemmy laughing at crypto bros is pretty normal.
leave fuckmerica, it does not want you and you do not want it
- It costs over four thousand dollars to renounce one's citizenship, plus the cost of a one-way ticket, plus having necessary infrastructure for oneself (a home, a job, proper paperwork) set up in the country one is fleeing to before they land. More than half of us can't just shit that money out of nowhere, otherwise a lot of us-- myself included-- would have fucked off already.
  I'm waiting for one of Amerika's staunch enemies to start offering the ability to defect before I put myself into poverty trying to leave.
You really have to be an asshole to live in Texas at this point lol abort Texas, abort the south. I want them to succeed in secession for demonstrative value.
- y'all pray for ERCOT
- I live in Texas. We need people that vote against this BS instead of just leaving. Texas has a say in US politics whether you like it or not, so some of us need to try to get better people in office.
  Furthermore, I'm a man and can afford to stay to fight for women's rights. I'm still protected, for now anyway.
  
  My husband and I are both here and voting as long as the military forces us to be here. Every election. Local, state, and federal. Blue. Every time.
  But fuck, the second my contract says I'm allowed to move, I'm selling my house, fleeing this hellhole ASAP, and will never willingly set foot in this state again. Just saying.
  2012 Texas was different than it is today. Not great, but exponentially better. There's been a distinct decline over the past ~decade.
  
  Nah you need to leave. Stop trying to swing a state that just needs to implode. Let those chimpanzees tear out each others' throats, it'll clean up the house in no time if they're left alone to their devices.
- Among Texas voters, about 45% reliably vote blue. Fuck 'em all though, right?
  
  A good business opportunity: a home swap for blue voters in red states and red voters in blue states, so that the Texas seceding dream can happen.
- just give the shithole back to mexico

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