The GOP As We Knew It Is Long Gone And May Never Return

[txlawyer]

@castor_troy

You said nobody would think of touching it, too dangerous.

The fuck I did.

Idaho GOP Becomes Latest To Embrace Fetal Personhood Ideology, Threatening Access To IVF

Not that they won’t be stupid enough to attack birth control, because some of them always have. They just won’t be stupid enough to enact any birth control bans, because they would be committing electoral suicide. And note that they’re all just indulging in this IVF stuff rhetorically. Not even Idaho is stupid enough to actually ban it.

New Tennessee Marriage Law Takes Aim At Obergefell

No optimism is necessary on birth control and interracial marriage. It would take legislation to prohibit them, and none either exists or stands any chance of passage anywhere in the country.

Herschel Walker’s Own Campaign Staffers Complain He Repeatedly Lies To Them

I prefer honest fearmongering. It is 100% accurate to say that they’re taking away women’s reproductive freedom and undermining the right to birth control. But if you keep shouting that they’re coming to take away the Pill and they never even make a halfway serious attempt at it, you’ve blown credibility. And it should go without saying that if any nutball GOPer goes there, the demagoguery should be both instant and relentless. I believe it was a GOP primary debate in Illinois a while back …

The Supreme Court Overturns Roe, Ending Constitutional Right To Abortion - TPM – Talking Points Memo

The crazies will no doubt make doomed attempts at it here and there, but they won’t get enacted. Mississippi voters shot down a personhood amendment in 2011 by more than 15 points precisely because it threatened access to the pill. In Mississippi! Proponents couldn’t even get it back on the ballot 4 years later.