‘Invoking emotionally detached uncles, then, was Higgins trying to get Republicans to see that they must present themselves as a party that proactively supports women. “It’s just not in their natural vocabulary,” she told Politico. ‘And we’re trying to help them learn how to make this be more part of their vocabulary and tell them that they need to talk about these things that their constituents all support, and be more visible and vocal.”‘
Authoritarian uncles.
I mean, seriously, Republicans TODAY have a serious TRUST issue: we cannot TRUST that anything they say they actually mean. Trump said a LOT of things and it turned out to be lies (national health care, tax breaks for the middle class, infrastructure, you know the things he never actually did).
Republicans have instead been trampling the rights of women because, well, they aren’t men. Just some place to stick a penis.
Not really human, right?
So why would you give cattle rights?
And this is the problem.
Republicans have proved OVER AND OVER that they see no problem with the violation of women’s rights as they look to nominate a RAPIST, and I’m not joking, an honest to goodness RAPIST for President.
And they see nothing wrong with that! But they STILL believe they are the “law and order” party!
Now, Republicans in Texas tell a woman she cannot have an abortion because the non-viable fetus won’t affect her (except it will) and besides judges shouldn’t make decisions.
They didn’t. The OBGYN did, but they said their decision was a “subjective belief” — no, it was a standard test and belief didn’t entered into it.
But that isn’t the point of “saving the life of the mother” clause — that clause is to threaten doctors for attempting to save the life of the mother WHEN IT IS SAFEST. Because if they are not literally bleeding out, then it is an “at will” abortion and the doctor can be imprisoned (this isn’t a joke).
You see the problem here?
Nothing in these “save the life of the mother” clauses are actually about saving the life of the mother! Ken Paxton, AG of Texas, in his letter, after Judge Maya Guerra Gamble agreed that an abortion was warranted, THREATENED hospitals and doctors with “potential long-term implications if you permit such an abortion to occur at your facility” — remember the fetus was non-viable. It could not live. It DID threaten Cox’s life. An abortion NOW when it was safe was a good thing.
But to Paxton, and many others in the Republican Party, this is seen as a free for all, at will abortions would destroy the Union! Women could have penalty free sex (because this is what it ultimately comes down to — women should be “penalized” for having sex by becoming pregnant).
But that not even the SCREWED UP part about Cox’s request for an abortion: she quite literally has the right to an abortion. And by definition RIGHTS ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE.
And yet, we have Republicans in the Supreme Court and Republicans in states arguing that abortion is not a right (says who?) and states can decide (show me where the state can control what I do with my uterus?)
In other words, states have been making laws that literally violate women’s rights and the Supreme Court has been nodding its head and saying, “Yup, yup, that sounds good!”
So we are now supposed to believe that Republicans CARE about contraception?
Fool me once, shame on me…
“In some cases, these women's medical care was left up to panels of doctors – and sometimes lawyers -- in their home states and they had to carry on their pregnancies for weeks as they waited for an appointment in another state. Since at least 16 states ceased nearly all abortion services, facilities that provide abortion care in states that border states with bans have seen an influx of tens of thousands of women crossing state lines for care, according to the Guttmacher Institute.”
This is what Republicans “Pro-Life” laws are telling women: “we don’t care about you and we don’t care if you die and we don’t care if you have to spend money on lawyers to save your life — we. Don’t. Care.”
They have made their message clear: so no amount of pretense is going to change the majority of women that, “Oh, look, these repugnant assholes now actually care about me!”
“Baby, baby, baby, sometimes you make me have to write laws to keep you from your rights!”
Sound about right?
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
This is a problem to anyone but the Republican Party. Al Fraken left the Senate because of he realized how inappropriate his actions were. None involved rape. Republicans were quite happy to see him go.
Mitch “Moscow” McConnell, "As with all credible allegations of sexual harassment or assault, I believe the Ethics Committee should review the matter"
On Trump’s rape? “No comment” — the “law and order” party can’t comment on RAPE?!?!
This is where I find the Republican Party to be blind — rape is against the law. For good reason. And yet they turn a blind eye when it is their own candidate.
Even NIKKI HALEY who is so anti-abortion it is vomit provoking can’t come out against Trump. Is she pro-rape?!?!
And that, in a nutshell is the problem with the Republican Party. If they are so “law and order” they should be against Trump as a nominee. But they are so against LOSING they will take a rapist.
This is abuse, plain and simple. It’s cruelty on a statewide level. It wouldn’t surprise me if many of these Republicans were abusing family members.
After all, look who they want to nominate for President? A man who was found by a jury of his peers to be a rapist.
‘“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her…,” Kaplan wrote.