Why Aren't There Press Conferences by Republican Politicians

 The Texas anti abortion law has been crowed about by anti abortion zealots. But national Republican politicians have mostly been silent.

This, at least so far, plays out what I have said here for years. Anti abortion politics is not about actually stopping abortion, it is about pretending to try to stop them. If abortion is actually stopped, Republican politicians are out of money and out of time. As the link explains, they are like the dog that caught the car. 

This, of courage, presumes the law will actually take effect and remain over time. A Christian columnist who opposes abortion and opposes the Texas law wonders what will happen when a citizen prosecutor notices a woman who was pregnant is no longer pregnant. The citizen took 24/7 videos of the woman's home. It shows a late night and hurried exit to a car. Another video shows her at a clinic that performs abortions. The prosecutor files suit against her husband for driving her to a clinic and against the clinic. 

The civil lawsuit is public record. The husband and the clinic must hire lawyers to defend themselves against the charges. In a hearing, the husband and clinic lawyers are required to use the woman's private medical records to prove their own innocence. The newspaper publishes their defense. She had a miscarriage. 

This is precisely the problem with all laws outlawing abortion. Who is authorized to make a judgement about enforcement and what and who pays to defend the woman or her driver to the hospital or the medical personnel? No anti abortion zealots have addressed these questions.

I just read a long article in The New Yorker about lives of people in rural Afghanistan during the 20 years of war. It is filled with stories of deaths of family members, innocent people killed by U.S. airstrikes. The common theme was a local grudge. Then a person whispered a lie that so and so was an enemy combatant. The person whisperer got a cash payment. A house was destroyed and the people in it killed. 

This is what we can look forward to if the Texas law is not shut down.


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