I’ve been following the news about the sudden push for new abortion laws that are each more draconian than the last with some interest in the southern states. It’s fascinating, to me. Been missing talking about politics on here, and this seems like a nice and awkward topic to get back into it with, so yeah, let’s talk about it.
A coworker of mine and I were talking about this stuff at work. We came to the same conclusion as to why this is all happening so suddenly. Red state after red state introducing legislation that flies in the face of Roe v. Wade. The big question is – why do this? Why now? To me it’s obvious – to get this to the Supreme Court. These states want this to go to court, and then get it to go to the Supreme Court. Because now they think that this can be the point where it will be overturned. It’s a conservative Supreme Court, and the newest justice definitely has an ax to grind with the liberal mentality ever since they overplayed their hand going after him. They might be right.
The aforementioned coworker was wringing his hand about this. I was more nonchalant. Why? Because it’s obvious what will happen. Assuming Roe v. Wade is overturned, what this will do is throw the issue to the states. So all the blue states will pass bills legalizing it, while the red states will pass bills making it illegal. While that is a bad thing for the women in red states, in my eyes it will just have the abortion issue be something that is divided among state lines.
Another thing this will do is take it off the table with Republicans to use in elections against their enemies. See, abortion has been a nice wedge issue with the right for a long time. Once it is given back to the states, then they can’t do that anymore. At least not on the congressional or presidential level. On state levels they can, but only to a point. After all, red states are going to be red no matter what and they know that. Same with blue states. So trying to use that against their opponent would be a waste of time. Taking a wedge issue off the table for Republicans is gonna be bad for them in the long run. With their voting demographic getting older and older and dying off, the Republican Party is gonna be losing a ton of support. The fact that Texas got as purple as it did when Beto was running against Ted Cruz should have been a worrying sign. If the day ever comes that Texas is a blue state, and the Electoral College is still a thing (which I am all for getting rid of. It’s an archaic institution from a bygone era whose usefulness has passed), there will never be another Republican in the White House for the rest of my lifetime.
It’s fascinating to watch all this unfold. Each law I see is more insane than the last. Alabama was the big one. A law that would make abortion illegal after six weeks. Something that women rightfully pointed out was stupid because women can not even know that they are pregnant after six weeks. The law would also make it so that the abortion doctor would go to jail for 30-60 years. Someone on Twitter pointed out that it’s funny because if a woman is raped and doesn’t want to keep the rape baby, the doctor who helped her get rid of it will get more jail time than the person who raped her. Irony is a lost art to conservatives.
My own home state presented a bill saying that all abortion, no matter the time-frame, is murder. Yeah, a bill that is clearly unconstitutional. The outrage was everywhere, but then people realize that the chances of this even making it to the state legislature was practically non-existent. That made them quiet down.
But today I saw one that really took the cake. I mean this is just fucking bonkers. Georgia just introduced a new anti-abortion law holding women criminally responsible for miscarriages. Really think about that. A woman could be held criminally responsible for miscarrying a baby and spend 30 years in prison. An article on the subject (linked here) pointed out, rightfully, that it is nearly impossible to determine the cause of a miscarriage. Gee, it’s almost like this insane law coming out of yet-another retarded Bible-belt state is written by men who don’t know the first fucking thing about women’s anatomy or fetal development. Women have miscarriage all the time. There are plenty of women who miscarry having never known that they were pregnant in the first place. I have a friend who was nearly killed because of a miscarriage when she didn’t even know she was pregnant.
Not to mention, I have another girly-mate who lost a baby. Her and her boyfriend have been trying to get pregnant for a while. This was the second offspring they’ve lost. It’s been unbelievably hard on her. I can’t imagine being in a state where she has to get told by a police officer that she is going to jail for 30 years because of something that she had no control over. She wasn’t drinking while she was pregnant. She was constantly fighting the urge to smoke. Had a cousin who was in the same boat too. Now we have a state who wants to tell those women – oh, this is something that’s hurting you because you wanted to have a child? Well go to jail, cunts!
This country is so insane. I kind of love it. As I said, I haven’t talked politics on here in a long time, and this was an issue that I just had to weigh in on, because it seems like red states are trying to one-up each other. I’m just waiting for the law that says that if a man jerks off, he’s wasting cum that could make a baby and so he goes to jail. Because Jesus, right? Well, no. God clearly doesn’t care about the unborn. Moses commanded his armies to slaughter pregnant women and tear open their bellies, along with smashing the heads of babies against rocks. In Numbers, one of the ways you could tell if a woman was committing adultery is to give her “bitter water” that will cause her to swell up and kill the fetus. Which she would then shit out of her vagina. Oh, and when that happens, you know she committed adultery, which you then kill her for. The Bible has never been against abortion in any serious way. But it does have a problem with women, so there’s that. Lines up with Carlin’s views on being “pro-life.” They’re “anti-women.”
Yet none of this insanity changes the point of why it’s happening. It’s all so they can get this to the Supreme Court, which in turn can be used to overturn Roe v. Wade. But getting that is fun to watch. This country is sinking into madness. We have an orange retarded monkey in office who is so pathetic and thin-skinned at that when Fox News takes their lips off his ass for one second to cover a mayoral race, he gets pissy at them. We have a culture war between the left and the right where both sides now look equally pathetic. I’ve finally reached a point where I am detached enough at this to see the funny side. Maybe I’m maturing. Wait, I play video games still. Never mind.
Until next time, a quote,
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” – George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Peace out,
Maverick
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