Abort The Patriarchy In November
If women attempt a coup in D.C. at the Capitol, we can blame it on their economic frustration. Abortion bans will cause immeasurable economic frustration and loss of freedom.
[Published first on my substack, The Halfway Café. If you enjoy liberal takes on contemporary politics and foreign policy, subscribe!]
There’s a trifecta of callousness in the right-wing circus tent, and when Roe v. Wade is banned the three main ideological groups of the GOP will get to show off their sanctimonious thirst for power over women and indifference to suffering children.
The Christian fundamentalists can say, “Whores have sex so they deserve to carry their fetuses to term, and must birth babies they don’t want or can’t afford regardless of human agency or personal medical circumstances, and its God’s will! As interpreted by me, the guy who knows exactly what God wants.”
When the baby takes its first breath of air the laissez-faire conservatives step in to cross their arms at any governmental subsidies and welfare programs that might help mom support the baby because “If we help you it would be communism.”
Then libertarians interject with, “You deserve your poverty you boostrapless parasite…