The irony of the "rape trees" is that they've kind of become a political football. The earliest references to them I've been able to find are actually in left wing sources like the Texas Observer, which took them seriously at the time. Sometime after that, when their existence appeared on the radar of the right wing, and they became fodder for stricter border control, it became vogue for some to doubt their existence. Weird. What is true, is that many pharmacies in Mexican border towns stock large amounts of birth control that is purchased and used by migrant women coming North.
The irony of the "rape trees" is that they've kind of become a political football. The earliest references to them I've been able to find are actually in left wing sources like the Texas Observer, which took them seriously at the time. Sometime after that, when their existence appeared on the radar of the right wing, and they became fodder for stricter border control, it became vogue for some to doubt their existence. Weird. What is true, is that many pharmacies in Mexican border towns stock large amounts of birth control that is purchased and used by migrant women coming North.
Thanks for taking the time to write this, Matt.
Your comment led me to your Substack - which I am reading with interest now.
Abrazos,
-jack-
I said it somewhere--- we need more King Ranch posts!