Roe v Wade was rolled back at a time when everyone was complaining that nobody wanted to work at a fast food place, and army recruitment at all-time lows was in the headlines.
And we're gearing up for WW3. More blood money for Raytheon!
Holy fuck. Gotta admit I did not see that coming. Mask off moment for them I guess.
There's a pernicious myth in the same evangelical circles that having sex one time will result in pregnancy. They are adamantly opposed to anything that lessens that story. They hate sex ed and contraception and abortion for that reason. They also don't like women who have medical issues that affect fertility like my partner. That doesn't stay on message either.
The fact that the abstinence only approach is deeply unreliable being a feature and not a bug does make sense.
Is that what their opposition to abortion has actually been about (for the party) this whole time? It seems like a much more material reason than the fact that it riles up the piggies to vote for them. If so that would mean a federal ban is actually against their interests as abortions in blue states would be good for them.
But on the other hand it also sounds like it’s just the best legal justification they could come up with to sue the FDA.
Probably the last thing you said. Republicans have been slowly chipping away at regulations with seemingly frivolous lawsuits so it seems likely.
The pregnancy pact wasn't real, it was just a coincidence that the media ran with
