Texas Vigilante Act
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:01 am
If this is behind a paywall, Frum's thesis here is that Republicans may have been able to use their dominance in Texas and outsized status as a minority party generally to achieve the destruction of Roe v Wade in one state and several others now likely to follow, but the electorate might make them regret it because it's a very different electorate on the abortion issue than it was before. You also have to be in your 60s to remember what it was like when abortion was illegal, and people are now going to get some real learning experiences they've never truly confronted before. Abortion doesn't stop just because they passed a law. I think and also hope that Frum is correct about voters, not because I like abortions but because people making these laws are mean, nasty monsters and the laws are terrible accordingly, and because squelching these people is necessary to protect democracy in general at the moment. What kind of b******* is it to pay people to rat out those they suspect of having a secret abortion or a miscarriage that wasn't really accidental? It lets us know how hypocritical Republicans have been on this issue. They're much more excited about punishing people for it than they are about ensuring it doesn't happen. Saving the babies is not really the point here.
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