As Governor she has limited ability to do much about abortion, especially with the Texas Senate still majority Republican.
The AG on the other hand, can make some significant strides in how abortion laws are prosecuted. Example: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/11/04/texas-abortion-ban-democrats-nathan-johnson-gina-hinojosa/
Texas is coming out of 3 decades of Republican control; not everything can change immediately. Let’s wait to see what happens as well, because “not my priority” doesn’t mean “no progress”.
Still leaps and bounds better than re-electing Abbott!
Edit with some details form the linked article:
Anti-abortion advocates like John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, aren’t worried about a new “standalone abortion bill” being passed this upcoming session, but he is concerned incoming Democratic leadership will turn back decades of Republican-led inroads in restricting the procedure.
He could see Hinojosa and other Dems making it tougher for programs like the former Alternatives to Abortion program, now renamed Thriving Texas Families, which sends over $200 million to private contractors to, in part, counsel pregnant women out of abortions, among other services. He said Hinojosa has consistently voted against the program and that he could see her defunding it or transferring the funding to another program.
The agency overseeing the program, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, has an agency commissioner, Stephanie Muth, whose appointment expires Feb. 1. Seago said he also fears that Hinojosa could also use her own appointment power to put someone else in charge of the agency and begin to change how those private contractors are scrutinized.
Thats good to know. It makes it weird when she says it like that. Like why not say I have little that I can do to make changes and move on? Saying it this way makes it feel like she doesnt want to.
She was still campaigning when she said this, and she was the underdog in an historically anti-choice State. I don’t like it, but maybe it was just some politicking on her part. We’ll see.
I got laughed at when I said that being a politician is unenviable job and I don’t necessarily begrudge politicians. It’s because most people never have to be policymakers who have to juggle the interest of various stakeholders. It’s so easy to criticise someone for being mum on abortion (pun unintended) but Hinojosa still has to appease the mostly religiously, conservative Texans.
Exactly as I said. Most of the Dems that won in red states are centrists that run on centrist ideas. They will not support any progressive policies. Most people that voted for them are simply angry about gas prices and inflation, they don’t actually support any progressive policies. The most likely scenario is the Democrats disappointing everyone and Republicans winning the presidency in two years.
As a foreigner, we see right wingers and ultra right wingers in those parties. People like Sanders and El-Sayed may be centrists leaning to the left, but American politicians are all kinds of right wing.
But we also see American people as enchanted with what they were in the 1980s and 1990s. Yes, they won the Cold War, but now China is a formidable opponent in the geopolitical realm, Japan continues to shrink as South Corea does, Canada is pissed off and Europe is taking their own road, even Russia is back in the game big time. The thing is, time’s up. The petrodollar is collapsing and they can’t win a war against Iran. Nobody wants the USA as an enemy, but more and more countries can afford it. It’s not that Americans want to change, they will have to.
What is this post trying to say? That article is from before the election
Politicians take actions that poll well with the groups that elected them and engage in some attempts to convince people that some things are a good idea. They cannot sway public sentiment with ease and they certainly aren’t going to convince all the Catholics in Texas who recently voted for them that abortion access should be prioritized. If you take actions that poll poorly and lose power, all those actions will simply be reversed, winning the new holder of that office support and helping them stay in power.
They don’t give a fuck about polls and opinion.
I also wish people learned the difference between priority and important. I suspect these people do, they are trying to resew division because right now the fovus is on corporate corruption and greed
Do you think corporate corruption and greed doesn’t fund anti-women’s-reproductive-health measures?
Religion is a monstrous evil.
Not arresting people leaving the state would still be a huge improvement.
The incoming AG has already said he won’t be enforcing any of that.
The Texas Senate is still heavily red. Abortion would be a non-starter on top of what you’ve said here.
Real “homo homini lupus est” vibes from America, huh. It’s not even partially racial anymore, anyone can get it now.
homo homini lupus est
“man is a wolf to man”.
Global west in general, and capitalist societies, in specific, my friend. I pray you and your lovely wife are well.
Hiya! We’re all good, thank God. Thanks for the kind words, and I hope you’re also doing well. 🫶😁
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Greg Abbot shut down any lawsuits similar to his. I want to pull up the ladder after I have climbed it… anyone against hinojosa is apparently wanting to pull up the ladder…
