Yup, boarder towns in red states are going to start stopping women as they travel through their towns to make sure they aren’t pregnant.
Yup, boarder towns in red states are going to start stopping women as they travel through their towns to make sure they aren’t pregnant.
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Originally, it was a product of the entanglement between the evangelical church and the GOP (differentiating it from European religious influence). Now it’s a dishonest, emotionally manipulative set of keys to jangle in front of conservative morons, allowing the genuine to feel righteous, and the hateful to hide behind a veneer of righteousness.
What people don’t do is play this out a little further - if these people are killing children, why are we being so soft on them and their supporters (even as the conservative nonsense escalates). It’s the same as the trans panic - if they’re all paedos (a common, self-evidently moronic stance), what do we do about that?
The GOP just want to kill people they don’t like, and are working to change the system to allow that.
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From what (little) I understand of the very diverse political landscape in Europe, the anti-abortion argument doesn’t have the support to make it much other than a liability (though I think there’s exceptions like Poland) - better to keep that one quiet, not scare would-be supporters that you’ll take their rights, and focus on more effective distractions like stoking racial animosity.
Conservatives here have picked unborn children as a group they can ostentatiously “protect”. It’s a particularly useful group for them, as the unborn have no ability to declare, “If you want to help us, SUPPORT OUR MOTHERS!”
So, conservatives get to feel righteous, while their leaders manipulate them with this crusade to further their own ends.
You know how Austrailia is where the British dumped all of their prisoners? America is where all of Europe’s crazy religious and political groups ran to escape persecution and/or sane laws. 300 years later and those groups have splintered and evolved. Some became ultra-humanitarian secularists, others are practically Christian Taliban. All of these factions are loosely held in check by the US government, control of which they fight over constantly, hence the absolute circus that is American politics.
Abortion has become a religious battleground, and the US is a lot more religious than Europe