Republicans on Abortion: “Full of Shit”
April 23, 2024
That’s a quote from The Daily Show. Actually applies to today’s Republican party in toto.
Daily said it following a clip of Arizona senate candidate (and election denier) Kari Lake declaiming she wants women having the widest possible health care choices. After she’d previously applauded a measure banning virtually all abortions.
On that subject, Republicans are like the proverbial car-chasing dog who catches it. For decades they thought opposing abortion was a great issue for them — until they finally prevailed, and are flummoxed to find most voters horrified.
So here’s Trump, bragging about his getting Roe v. Wade overturned, yet somehow trying to make himself sound almost pro-choice, saying it’s really just letting each state decide, something everybody wants. Except they don’t. He’s (as ever) full of shit.
The Supreme Court’s voiding abortion rights, so blatantly motivated by religious and political zealotry, has accelerated plunging citizen trust in our public institutions. (Trump’s presidency made the whole government look like a feckless circus; and his vote fraud lies have shredded confidence in our election systems.)
Look — abortion is a difficult moral issue. Pro-choicers err in deeming it merely about a woman’s own body. Not so simple when there’s another life inside it, for whom she has some responsibility, especially in the later stages.
But meantime Republicans posture as the party of “freedom,” the word almost a mantra. Well, freedom for men maybe. Women they want to control — with no freedom for pregnancy health care. Often not even to abort unviable fetuses that might kill them. Just one way Republicans want government regulating behavior they dislike. Freedom for gays? Let alone trans people? Fuggedaboutit.
Then we even have the loony Alabama Supreme Court ruling, full of Biblical bloviating, declaring embryos created during in-vitro fertilization human beings. So no freedom to utilize IVF. That went over like a lead balloon, with Republicans scrambling to tell voters, “Oh no, we don’t mean that.”
Another thing: they’re all for the rights and welfare of unborn children. Once born, not so much. Alabama — typical of Republican fetus fetishizing states — ranks at the bottom regarding the welfare of kids no longer fetuses. Issues of poverty, education, nutrition, health care, etc. “Pro-lifers” only seem to care about children in wombs, not those pesky ones outside.
Meanwhile too, these “pro-life” Republicans are fine with 30,000 Americans killed annually by guns for which they refuse to allow any sane regulation. Yet they prattle “law and order.”
And after months screaming that Democrats were trying to interfere with the election by barring Trump from the ballot (invoking the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause), now in at least two states, Alabama and Ohio, Republican election officials are trying to use legal technicalities to keep President Biden off their November ballots!
Such fundamental dishonesty and hypocrisy pervades today’s whole Republican party. With all that “stolen election” rubbish, and so much more. As The Daily Show succinctly put it: they’re full of shit.