If you aren’t yet convinced that the Supreme Court’s anticipated ruling striking down Roe v. Wade is not a precursor of more restrictive crackdowns on voter rights, education, housing, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, and citizens’ rights in general, then you just haven’t been paying attention.
Hell, they’re even coming after a woman’s basic right to birth control. Don’t believe me? Go HERE, HERE, HERE,HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
The validity of the threat to contraception was underscored by Sen. Ted “Cancun” Cruz’s DENIAL (Do you actually trust anything he says?).
I don’t want to sound like some hysterical conspiracy nut, but all the indications of the Repugnantcans’ end game are right there in front of us and for those who can connect the dots, the evidence is there, in boldface black and white. Just look at the laws tightening voting rights, public education curricula, LGBTQ rights, etc.
The oppressive actions of right-wing Repugnantcans are advances not-so-slowly chipping away at the rights of free Americans just as happened in Nazi Germany 80 years ago.
That’s a brash claim but one that his historically accurate. One charismatic “leader” who echoes the injustices, real or imagined, heaped upon the uneducated masses is all it takes to start such a movement. Not that Donald Trump is charismatic in any sense – just listen to his speeches at any of his rallies – but he has struck a chord with the disillusioned millions who feel the government has not responded to their needs and somehow think he actually cares about their daily struggles.
The abolishment of Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (which has received far less attention), are about more than a woman’s right to an abortion; it’s a power grab, plain and simple.
When no exception is made for rape, incest, or for fetuses that are revealed to be hopelessly deformed, then the argument has gone far beyond right to life. In fact, the mother’s right to life in dangerous pregnancies is given no consideration by states passing repressive anti-abortion laws.
Nor is there any consistency in this spate of state laws Repugnantcan legislators are falling all over each other to enact.
Take Florida and Texas for examples. In those states, a 12-year-old girl is considered too immature to learn about slavery or other sensitive subjects like say, birth control, in a classroom environment but if she becomes pregnant by an uncle, a sibling, a cousin, or anyone else, she must carry the baby to term. Of course, after that she’s on her own; don’t bother applying for medical aid or any other type of state assistance.
When you get right down to it, there’s no one capable of more extreme cruelty than those God-fearing, family-values Repugnantcans who insist on imposing their warped values on others but are quick to exempt themselves from the rules when those rules are inconvenient – especially when a Repugnantcan’s MISTRESS turns up pregnant something that’s already happened – Go HERE, HERE (didn’t know that about Trump, did-ya?), HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE and it’ll happen again, guaranteed.
States are beginning to consider laws making a felony offense to have an abortion for any reason. Never mind the fact that Mississippi has the highest infant mortality rate in the nation; the governor is considering outlawing contraception in any form. In Texas, they’ve placed bounties on pregnant women who seek an abortion by offering monetary awards to anyone who reports a woman for having an abortion or anyone, including a physician, who gives advice on such a procedure. If that’s not turning neighbor against neighbor reminiscent of what’s done in totalitarian nations, then I have to say there’s no hope for society. We’ve become a herd of 300,000 sheep.
Right here in Louisiana, a legislator is pushing a bill that would charge a woman receiving an abortion with MURDER.
Next thing you know, the Repugnantcans will call for the enacting of Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and Exodus 22:16-17 into law:
Deuteronomy 22: 28-29:
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Exodus 22:16-17:
16If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride price for her and make her his wife. 17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride price for virgins.”
Like those biblical verses, Repugnantcans think of women as property. Never forget that. And there’s little evidence to deny that they feel the same way about the rest of us.
And remember this above everything else: It’s the Repugnantcans who profess to be the party that wants government out of our lives.
Louisiana Voice 
I remember going to see “Cabaret” and “The Sound of Music” in 2016, and wondering if I was the only person in the audience that thought “the current situation in America eerily resembles the beginnings of Hitler’s rise….
The truth is obvious to anyone who has been paying attention. Republicans/conservatives play the long game. They are highly organized and well funded. (Think ALEC, The Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation, the Kochs) They are patient and disciplined. They put their own minions into minor elected office and help them move into ever more important positions where they can dominate legislation and districting, and control the narrative. Banning abortion is one thing (I do not agree) but banning contraception, which prevents pregnancies and thereby a number of abortions, has only one objective: subjugation of women. Those who have raised the alarm have been belittled and called names. And, here we are, teetering at the brink of a return to the dark ages.
You have expressed the feelings of many of us Tom. And your last statement, “It’s the Repugnantcans who profess to be the party that wants government out of our lives” should indeed be remembered above all else. For their hypocrisy on this and so many other issues.
It’s so disgusting how their true colors are showing and they were so emboldened by Rump and now the stolen Supreme Court. So many of these goons are proving even more radical than they let on previously.
Also, along with not reforming the state police, I consider JBE’s signing of the ban that outlawed exceptions for rape or incest his other major disappointment in office-at least he could still do something about the former.
You always have interesting takes on things, this will not abolish abortion, just turn it back to the states where it needs to be. Are you trying to say the states are not smart enough to make lake laws? I would agree to that in the crime ridden democratic cities that every law abiding citizen avoids like the plague now. You “let’s go Brandonites” rule is coming to a swift end with the next election cycle. One which will set America on the path of what our founding fathers meant it to be. Keep writing these type of articles, they are amusing. I do agree with “earthmother” we are intelligent and calculated in MAGA.
Read you soon my blue friend!
The “Founding Fathers” didn’t include women, white men who didn’t own land, and people of color. Why are Republicans so enamored by what these rich white men that comprised a small portion of the population and were not duly elected think or wrote? I didn’t vote for them. Over half the population of this country now are not like the “Founding Fathers.”