If women aren’t people to you
Dr Jen Gunter on Ted Cruz on Fox News:
When asked about abortion, given Trump’s recent flip flops (I think he’s had six or is that seven positions this week?), Ted Cruz said “the people” should decide. And that Roe is so terrible because it took abortion “out of the control of the people”
Not the women people, the other people.
And women should carry their rapists baby to term.
His plan, which he somehow feels is very moderate and filled with empathy, appears to be get rid of Roe and then let the voters decide state by state. Women and doctors? Silly, they don’t know anything.
If the majority decides women shouldn’t be able to decide whether and when to have children, then there you go: that’s democracy. Democracy means the majority can take your rights away or refuse to grant them in the first place.
Not allowing women to decide on their own health care is punishment.
Making abortion unavailable in 15 states also punishes women. We know what happens, women take abortion into their own hands in the absence of legal, safe procedures. It’s already happening and women are being prosecuted for it. Cruz can let the states punish women through the legal system and take no responsibility. Women with money will have to pay a lot of money to travel. Also punishment.
And making a woman carry her rapists’ baby to term or making a woman wait for days with a dilated cervix and fetal feet hanging into the vagina risking infection for a fetus that has no hope of survival because it has cardiac activity? Punishment. Very, very cruel punishment.
But then again, if women aren’t people to you then none of this would come off as cruel or unusual.
If God wanted women to be able to end their pregnancies, God would have installed an on/off switch.
“Let the states decide.” Bullshit. If Roe v. Wade were overturned, the next time there was a Republican Congress and a Republican President, we’d get a national ban on abortion. Like, two seconds after the inauguration. The forced birth brigade has already proven that their commitment to federalism is insincere: see the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. They didn’t want to “let the states decide” on that aspect of abortion.
It would sure wake up the Wall Street Republicans, who are happy to milk the abortion issue to elect tax-cutting Republicans, secure in the knowledge that they and their wives and daughters will always be able to take a “holiday weekend in NY/CA/Blue State” and get an abortion done discretely. But then, that rather small subset of Republicans is already getting a rude awakening this year, and learned just how powerless they are to control the mob they’ve unleashed.
Oh, and by the way, when the Partial Birth Abortion Act went up to the Supreme Court, somehow Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Scalia, Alito, and Thomas saw no problem with the interstate commerce clause being used as the justification to regulate which abortion procedures a woman can have done, but couldn’t see how Obamacare’s regulation of the health insurance market could possibly affect interstate commerce.
Grrr.. Federalism Hulk angry!
Maybe we should let the states decide how men are allowed to use their penises. They can’t put it anywhere that isn’t pre-approved by a majority of the voters. They can’t fondle it unless it is pre-approved by a majority of the voters.
That would make as much sense as telling women what to do with THEIR reproductive organs. Hey, maybe we can let councils of women, preferably single, celibate women, decide what men can do with their penises.
At the same time they say repeal Roe and let the state decide they advocate a personhood amendment to the constitution so that the states would be deciding on the legality of a doctor ending the life of a person in utero.
They are giving us the old razzle dazzle and they are stunningly bad at it.