Donald Trump just hates the issue of abortion. It’s messy. It’s nasty. It deals with women’s stuff down there, the part he has always just wanted to grab and then brag about. The big problem with abortion for Trump has been that that he has never wanted to take a position on it. When he said he would appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would overturn
It's all about controlling women as they are getting too much power and the Trumplicans don't like that at all! If they really cared about life, they would ban assault weapons and have more gun control! Once the child is born, they don't give a shit! No health care etc.
What really astounds me is how the "pro-life" people can want to force a woman, even at the risk of her life, to bear a non-viable fetus as long as it remains alive in her womb. (I'm thinking of Kate Cox among other victims of "pro-life" people.) If the fetus is never going to be a child, then what does banning abortion have to do with life? Or does "pro-life" refer to the lives of non-viable fetuses while they are in the womb? The forced birthers are not just evil. They are insane.
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I'm currently squatting on lands tended not too far from Chief Pontiac. Exactly 1 and 1/2 blocks from my house is a Planned Parenthood location. Today as in 5 or 6 hours ago, I see one of the pro lifer's and his sandwich board. I honked and rolled down the window and gave him the finger. Then as I was turning off Woodward I see a young woman rushing to get to her appt. I stopped the car and waited to see if she got in safely. I used to walk my leashed Cavlier King Charles right through the picketers. She barked like hell. She knew.
It's not really about babies, reproduction, or women's bodies. Instead, for the GOP it's about getting as many votes as possible to win elections, made easier if they can get votes from low-information, ideological based followers. If abortion doesn't work for the GOP, they'll find something else. Perhaps claiming election fraud? Even better, they now get free talking points from Putin.
You're almost there, Lucian! The "messiness of abortion" is part of it, but the big lesson, the unlearned lesson that *fingers crossed* is gonna sink the GOP, is that WOMEN HAVE MINDS OF OUR OWN. Notice how in several state referendums, white women have parted company with "their" men? After all those depressing elections where 60% of white women voted Republican?
Those guys, those brilliant (mostly) white guys who think they know best for everybody have blown it big-time. And I am goddamn glad I'm alive to see it happening.
While I’ve often enjoyed or even admired David French’s writings, this one left me…heading for the bathroom to drive the proverbial Porcelain Bus. I had no idea he was so intellectually vacuous.
In any case, maybe now’s a good time to point out that, up until the mid-1960’s, abortion wasn’t a major political issue at all. And it all changed with the civil rights movement and Bob Jones University. BJU took the stance of denying admission to Black students, and they were shut down by the Supreme Court. So, rather than moving forward and embracing the new reality that even colored people ought to have a decent education, the reaction was to use abortion as a proxy for their underlying racist intentions. And if a few poor white women got swept up in their frenzy, well, them’s the breaks. Nearly 60 years this same long-lived albatross is finally coming home to roost, and tether itself to the necks of these feckless proto-fascists known as Republicans (to be clear, I do not include those that have left the party like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinziger, etc.).
That’s the problem with denying reality: You will persistently make poor choices. And, eventually, that pile of poor choices is dumped on you like raw sewage stored up for a half-century in the septic tank of Republican orthodoxy that finally breaches the dam.
As Oscar Wilde might have put it: the unspeakable publishing the unreadable. What always bugged me is the silence from antiabortionites about miscarriages, which are quite common and painful enough with having to answer to cops and assistant D.A.s.
Well said. The Rethugs have painted themselves into a corner and are now standing there, paintbrush in hand, looking dumb and puzzled.
I’ve tried to calm down some friends and my wife about the two stunning, regressive “A & A decisions” by saying that this simply rips the lid off the Republicans’ stinking garbage can of hypocrisy (akin to LKT’s point here) and TRULY reveals, for all the world to see, what their “pro-life” position really is: a putrid little lie. Those hideous rulings were, in their perverse way, a good thing —NOT for any woman or family that suffered or will suffer because of them but because they make the rot of the Republicans’ untenable stance as clear as crystal. State Supreme Court rulings notwithstanding, the will of the majority eventually prevails. Prohibition crumbled under the force of popular will. People simply didn’t want it. The GOP’s archaic and ham-handed attempt to control women’s lives and health decisions will fail as well. Unlike Prohibition, there was never anything noble about this experiment.
Wimmin and Democrats best be grateful Kamala Harris is the first and current VP. And Joe Biden best be more grateful than ever that she is. And love the fact R men are scared chitless of the VP, For good reason.
Can't imagine President Biden or any other man in the administration or the Democratic Party speaking to the totality of wimmins' rights and wimmins healthcare including access to obstetrician-gynecologists, and coming off as authentic.
Will never get over the rich irony of the AZ Supreme Court viewing wimmins reproductive healthcare through the lens of 1864 when AZ was not a state and wimmin could not vote.
Note: David French belongs on the CBN not in the NYT or on mainstream teevee, 99.94% certain he never attended a single pelvic exam of his own wife and his internet browser history would make make Jimmy Swagart cry.
It's all about controlling women as they are getting too much power and the Trumplicans don't like that at all! If they really cared about life, they would ban assault weapons and have more gun control! Once the child is born, they don't give a shit! No health care etc.
What really astounds me is how the "pro-life" people can want to force a woman, even at the risk of her life, to bear a non-viable fetus as long as it remains alive in her womb. (I'm thinking of Kate Cox among other victims of "pro-life" people.) If the fetus is never going to be a child, then what does banning abortion have to do with life? Or does "pro-life" refer to the lives of non-viable fetuses while they are in the womb? The forced birthers are not just evil. They are insane.
100 million women are poised to vote and they ain't voting gop...
I'm currently squatting on lands tended not too far from Chief Pontiac. Exactly 1 and 1/2 blocks from my house is a Planned Parenthood location. Today as in 5 or 6 hours ago, I see one of the pro lifer's and his sandwich board. I honked and rolled down the window and gave him the finger. Then as I was turning off Woodward I see a young woman rushing to get to her appt. I stopped the car and waited to see if she got in safely. I used to walk my leashed Cavlier King Charles right through the picketers. She barked like hell. She knew.
David French is just one of many reasons I canceled my subscription to the NY Times.
It's not really about babies, reproduction, or women's bodies. Instead, for the GOP it's about getting as many votes as possible to win elections, made easier if they can get votes from low-information, ideological based followers. If abortion doesn't work for the GOP, they'll find something else. Perhaps claiming election fraud? Even better, they now get free talking points from Putin.
You're almost there, Lucian! The "messiness of abortion" is part of it, but the big lesson, the unlearned lesson that *fingers crossed* is gonna sink the GOP, is that WOMEN HAVE MINDS OF OUR OWN. Notice how in several state referendums, white women have parted company with "their" men? After all those depressing elections where 60% of white women voted Republican?
Those guys, those brilliant (mostly) white guys who think they know best for everybody have blown it big-time. And I am goddamn glad I'm alive to see it happening.
Wish I had originated this, but someone else — unsung and unnamed — did: Roevember Is Coming.
While I’ve often enjoyed or even admired David French’s writings, this one left me…heading for the bathroom to drive the proverbial Porcelain Bus. I had no idea he was so intellectually vacuous.
In any case, maybe now’s a good time to point out that, up until the mid-1960’s, abortion wasn’t a major political issue at all. And it all changed with the civil rights movement and Bob Jones University. BJU took the stance of denying admission to Black students, and they were shut down by the Supreme Court. So, rather than moving forward and embracing the new reality that even colored people ought to have a decent education, the reaction was to use abortion as a proxy for their underlying racist intentions. And if a few poor white women got swept up in their frenzy, well, them’s the breaks. Nearly 60 years this same long-lived albatross is finally coming home to roost, and tether itself to the necks of these feckless proto-fascists known as Republicans (to be clear, I do not include those that have left the party like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinziger, etc.).
That’s the problem with denying reality: You will persistently make poor choices. And, eventually, that pile of poor choices is dumped on you like raw sewage stored up for a half-century in the septic tank of Republican orthodoxy that finally breaches the dam.
"Boo fucking hoo," is right.
You sound angry, Lucian. I LOVE it when you sound angry👏👏👏excellent piece.
As Oscar Wilde might have put it: the unspeakable publishing the unreadable. What always bugged me is the silence from antiabortionites about miscarriages, which are quite common and painful enough with having to answer to cops and assistant D.A.s.
I hereby declare that in Alabama life begins at egg and sperm so men who wh*ck off or get bl*w jobs must go to prison.
Well said. The Rethugs have painted themselves into a corner and are now standing there, paintbrush in hand, looking dumb and puzzled.
I’ve tried to calm down some friends and my wife about the two stunning, regressive “A & A decisions” by saying that this simply rips the lid off the Republicans’ stinking garbage can of hypocrisy (akin to LKT’s point here) and TRULY reveals, for all the world to see, what their “pro-life” position really is: a putrid little lie. Those hideous rulings were, in their perverse way, a good thing —NOT for any woman or family that suffered or will suffer because of them but because they make the rot of the Republicans’ untenable stance as clear as crystal. State Supreme Court rulings notwithstanding, the will of the majority eventually prevails. Prohibition crumbled under the force of popular will. People simply didn’t want it. The GOP’s archaic and ham-handed attempt to control women’s lives and health decisions will fail as well. Unlike Prohibition, there was never anything noble about this experiment.
Good dissection. The analogy of dogs ‘catching the fucking car’ is gold, because as we know - what can they do about it now?
Wimmin and Democrats best be grateful Kamala Harris is the first and current VP. And Joe Biden best be more grateful than ever that she is. And love the fact R men are scared chitless of the VP, For good reason.
Can't imagine President Biden or any other man in the administration or the Democratic Party speaking to the totality of wimmins' rights and wimmins healthcare including access to obstetrician-gynecologists, and coming off as authentic.
Will never get over the rich irony of the AZ Supreme Court viewing wimmins reproductive healthcare through the lens of 1864 when AZ was not a state and wimmin could not vote.
Note: David French belongs on the CBN not in the NYT or on mainstream teevee, 99.94% certain he never attended a single pelvic exam of his own wife and his internet browser history would make make Jimmy Swagart cry.