The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization transformed the politics of abortion, turning an issue that once mattered most…
This is what Republicans don’t understand. The more tightly they try to squeeze, the more the future will be exactly what they don’t want. Pushing an unpopular position this hard will only make people consider even more extreme versions of the opposing opinion.
I mean, it’s a very good point – why should the government have any say? It’s antithetical to what libertarians and small government proponents say.
Republican politicians don’t actually care about abortion, they’re just using it for the controversy. If anything, they like this since the fight is what fires up their base and drives them to the polls.
It’s much worse than that. The anti-abortion drive is anti-woman. Sure, it’s a wedge issue for some politicians, but overall it’s about rolling back women’s rights until they’re domestic non-citizens who depend entirely on their father, brother, uncle, husband. The anti-abortion drive also has the benefit of pleasing the ones who hate the poor, as the poor women are the most affected, while rich ones can “find ways around” the bans. In the US, that combines with racism too.
This is what Republicans don’t understand. The more tightly they try to squeeze, the more the future will be exactly what they don’t want. Pushing an unpopular position this hard will only make people consider even more extreme versions of the opposing opinion.
I mean, it’s a very good point – why should the government have any say? It’s antithetical to what libertarians and small government proponents say.
Republican politicians don’t actually care about abortion, they’re just using it for the controversy. If anything, they like this since the fight is what fires up their base and drives them to the polls.
They do this with everything. They never pass any useful bill, they just go for easy shit to rile people up.
It’s much worse than that. The anti-abortion drive is anti-woman. Sure, it’s a wedge issue for some politicians, but overall it’s about rolling back women’s rights until they’re domestic non-citizens who depend entirely on their father, brother, uncle, husband. The anti-abortion drive also has the benefit of pleasing the ones who hate the poor, as the poor women are the most affected, while rich ones can “find ways around” the bans. In the US, that combines with racism too.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/15/1857976/--The-Only-Moral-Abortion-is-My-Abortion-an-article-by-Joyce-Arthur
The essence of conservatism being: “rights and liberty for me, but not for thee”
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That’s what they want. They want extremism.
It shows how much they lack self-awareness, since they themselves only double down when told “no.”