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thatcrazycajunIn two states this week—one of which it sorrows me greatly to be currently living therein—Republican state legislators, egged on by right-to-life activists made hopeful by the current 5-4 conservative majority on the US Supreme Court, are trying once again to interpose themselves between unwillingly pregnant women and their OB-GYNs. Harsh new laws aimed at dissuading such women from having abortions, and physicians from performing them, have been vomited from the statehouses in Oklahoma and right here in Georgia. (See stories here and here.)
The timing of these laws—in the Sooner State, passed over two separate gubernatorial vetoes—is far from accidental. Their authors and the meddling moralists back of them see a win either way here: If the laws get enacted and challenged in court, they have a shot at appealing it all the way to John Roberts & Co., whom they expect will use it as the long-awaited opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade. If not, they can at least get a whole mess of Democrats and others in their respective statehouses on record voting against "reasonable" limits on abortion...making them all the more vulnerable to being unseated in this fall's elections.
If you're as bothered as I am by these yahoos trying to impose their notions of morality on the rest of us, look up one of the groups bringing the litigation against these laws and slip them a donation. If you actually think this sort of divisive, deliberately provocative, health-care-obstructing legislation is a good idea, I dare you to try and convince me here.
The timing of these laws—in the Sooner State, passed over two separate gubernatorial vetoes—is far from accidental. Their authors and the meddling moralists back of them see a win either way here: If the laws get enacted and challenged in court, they have a shot at appealing it all the way to John Roberts & Co., whom they expect will use it as the long-awaited opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade. If not, they can at least get a whole mess of Democrats and others in their respective statehouses on record voting against "reasonable" limits on abortion...making them all the more vulnerable to being unseated in this fall's elections.
If you're as bothered as I am by these yahoos trying to impose their notions of morality on the rest of us, look up one of the groups bringing the litigation against these laws and slip them a donation. If you actually think this sort of divisive, deliberately provocative, health-care-obstructing legislation is a good idea, I dare you to try and convince me here.
