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Abortion Bans With No Exceptions Were Always Part Of The GOP’s End Game
Really? They had me fooled, I always though it was about State Rights.
Abortion bans with no exceptions and ability to be armed to the teeth with weapons of war with no restrictions. Good god, what have we come to?
What is this “end game” you speak of?
They are just getting started.
Banning abortion is just the start for the six radicals on the corrupted court.
Just wait till they throw out New York’s gun laws and proclaim that everyone has the right to own as many assault rifles as their tiny pee pees desire.
They aren’t banning abortion at all.
They are just banning safe abortions.
Many women will die because of this—and Republicans don’t care.
We know that Republican Senators and Congressman will always have access to abortion for their mistresses, don’t we Scott DesJarlais???
My fear is that this is more or less what citizens want and have always wanted.
Regardless of how a majority always tell pollsters they support the right to choose, voters including women have barely supported Roe at the ballot box. Women are the majority of voters in every state, yet electorally we see how casual that support is.
They’re all about to get their wish and can try losing their rights on for size. I guess we will find out if this “Blue Wave” of pro-choice non-voters, or those taking a new stand materializes…or not.
Non-voters have always been our bugaboo.
I think it’s a mistake to say anything to do with abortion was a part of the GOP’s endgame. I doubt most professional GOP’ers give a shit about it. Flogging abortion is a means to an end for them…that end is power. You can’t win an election on an agenda of kissing 1% ass. Abortion, Guns and CRT…yes if you culture a concern for them. No one thinks Ron DeSantis gives a shit about CRT or that Abbott gives a shit about abortion. They give a shit about being elected.
What have we come to?
A death cult. Dead school kids. Dead mothers. Dead shoppers. Dead worshippers. Dead doctors.
Only a buildup to the main event — apocalypse. The greatest mass murder of all.
I doubt most professional GOP’ers give a shit about it.
Exactly right. Like Trump, they actually believe in choice.
To which I want to add a hearty Har-de-har-har.
Birth control is next: there is no privacy right, no ‘bodily autonomy’ for the WIMMINS.
Well, if you take out BLACK WIMMIN then Texas has ‘terrific’ maternal outcomes from pregnancy.
Said by an f-ing DOCTOR.
Until voter turnout reaches at least 80% on a regular basis, I remain unpersuaded that “this is what Americans want”. What we have is a bunch of Americans who just don’t care
Even in general calling it “Abortion” is playing on the GOP battlefield. How’s about “Reproductive Freedom”? Make it so they always framed as being against it. Who doesn’t want freedom?
Also, referring to it at all times as the “Child Rape” law would be a messaging step forward… but then they might say Dems weren’t being civil so…let’s just keep using RW Radical framing that we’ve already internalized. 
When Roe is overturned, all abortion in AZ will be banned except for cases involving the health/life of the mother. No exceptions for rape or incest, and telehealth for medication abortions is banned as are all medication abortions.
So who fucked up and allowed an exceptiion for the mother’s health? /s
Seriously the next battle is over abortion by pills (you didn’t think they were through, did you?)
Many people don’t give a damn about anything that doesn’t affect them directly. That is why there will be thousands of women fighting desperately to get a legal abortion in the next decade who never voted for anything except American Idol.
Nothing says pro-life more than forcing women to carry a fetus created by rape or incest and paying no attention to the life or health of the mother and to top it off condoning the rights of murderers to be armed to the teeth so that they can kill children. Where are all the pro lifers on arming murderers? Answer: nowhere to be found. Not their problem.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s woman she’s better than the best colored man, he woman, she won’t notice you’re picking his pocket forcing her to be barefoot and pregnant. Hell, give him her somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets she’ll throw away her shoes for you.”
(With apologies to Bill Moyers and LBJ)
Vooman iz property!
