Anti- Abortion: Women Have the Power to Say No to Sex But Not to an Abortion

For years I have been saying here anti-abortion zealots' law must prosecute the women or it is not a law at all. It is instead a joke.

No one says it directly, but everyone knows the sleight-of-hand game going on here. If women are jailed for their abortions, political support will evaporate. Someone else, a more appropriate villain, must be fingered. So far, that has been the abortion staff, giving rides or money for abortions, etc. Everyone is guilty except the woman. 

In Louisianna, anti abortion politicians spoke the truth. They said if abortion is murder, the person who makes the ultimate decision to murder has one has to be guilty of the murder. That's the woman. 

The old adage, it's been repeated several times in comments on this site, is women must say no to sex unless they want to be pregnant. "A women has the power to say no," it is repeated. "Keep those legs crossed" it is said. But there is a different story altogether with abortion. With abortion, the woman has no power to say no. The woman is a "victim of the abortion industry" or liberal politicians or Satan or whatever. 

What on earth is the anti-abortion cabal going to do if its members, like those in Louisiana, insist on telling the truth. Everyone knows it is the woman who is the ultimate decider. The "abortion industry" does not decide, has never made a decision, for any woman. Deception and untruthfulness, which is the only tool in the anti abortion tool box, is catching up to it. 

The national reaction to the leaked Supreme Court draft has been worse than Republican anti abortion operatives expected, at least according to one news outlet. The inevitable conclusion is that what anti abortion Republicans want, overturning Roe, is disliked by a strong majority of the U.S. public. A frantic effort is underway to name someone, anyone, other than women as the villain. This will work unless honest right to life politicians insist on telling the truth: Abortions are decided by women. 

 

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