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.