Yup, boarder towns in red states are going to start stopping women as they travel through their towns to make sure they aren’t pregnant.
Yup, boarder towns in red states are going to start stopping women as they travel through their towns to make sure they aren’t pregnant.
Originally, it was a product of the entanglement between the evangelical church and the GOP (differentiating it from European religious influence). Now it’s a dishonest, emotionally manipulative set of keys to jangle in front of conservative morons, allowing the genuine to feel righteous, and the hateful to hide behind a veneer of righteousness.
What people don’t do is play this out a little further - if these people are killing children, why are we being so soft on them and their supporters (even as the conservative nonsense escalates). It’s the same as the trans panic - if they’re all paedos (a common, self-evidently moronic stance), what do we do about that?
The GOP just want to kill people they don’t like, and are working to change the system to allow that.
I haven’t considered that. Thank you for the context. I suppose the current European system is a bit of a tense stalemate/compromise because there are definitely many organisations around European counties, not to mention the Catholic and Orthodox Church, that are advocating for abortion to be banned.
From what (little) I understand of the very diverse political landscape in Europe, the anti-abortion argument doesn’t have the support to make it much other than a liability (though I think there’s exceptions like Poland) - better to keep that one quiet, not scare would-be supporters that you’ll take their rights, and focus on more effective distractions like stoking racial animosity.