"Moderate" Republicans or people who lean Republican have tried to keep moving the goalposts on abortion. "The laws don't really say what people say they say," or words to that effect. "These bans aren't that draconian."
In fact, they are routinely more draconian than laws that existed before Roe v Wade. Recently, the Biden Administration issued a ruling that women with life threatening conditions caused by their pregnancies should be given emergency medical care - including abortions - to address their emergent health needs.
The idea that a woman who might be hemorrhaging or suffering from an ectopic pregnancy should be denied an abortion and therefore directly imperiling the life of the woman is as clear a statement of contempt for women that I can recall a major elected official make. Basically, the Texas GOP (and every other reactionary theocratic state regime in the country) is going to hide behind meaningless arguments about the "Tenth Amendment" and such, and they can be reasonably sure that the theocrats on the Court will back them.
And women will die.
We have already seen this fandango with the 10 year old rape victim from Ohio. First, the story was a lie. Then it wasn't a lie, but she shouldn't have to leave the state. Then she did have to leave the state, but the Indiana doctor committed a crime. Then the Indiana doctor did not commit a crime, but...I dunno, Megan McCardle was Twitter's Main Character yesterday for saying that 10 year old rape victims getting pregnant was enough a statistical outlier that we shouldn't even care about it. Or something, I'll be damned if I'll read her screeds.
From now until election day, women are going to die from these draconian abortion rules and brave doctors will be arrested for performing life-saving abortions. And everything the GOP will tell you that the facts in front of you are not the facts in front of you.
And fuck if it might not work.
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