Anti-Abortion is Trying to Stop Abortion Medicines


Anti-abortion propaganda techniques have always relied on a villain, the clinic and doctor doing the surgery. Now, the villain is evaporating into thin air. Who can anti-abortion propaganda operatives demonize if there is no doctor or clinic? Who will they shout their "prayers" to?

The anti-abortion author of the link worries about this. He comes up with no solution but at least recognizes the old stuff, protesting and honeying up to judges and law makers, will no longer work. Anti-abortion faces a determined foe who is digging in for the long haul. 

The entire anti-abortion operation and Roe reversal makes one giant assumption. It is that law enforcement will have the will and resources to enforce the law. When violation of laws is widespread enforcement is sporadic as best. Take the speed limit on interstate highways. These laws could be enforced everywhere. They are not because enforcement of speed laws must compete for enforcement of other laws. As the saying goes, law enforcement personnel "cannot be everywhere."

As I reported in an earlier blog, overseas companies have tooled up to produce large quantities of these pills. Many will be shipped to Northern Border addresses in Mexico. A large number of volunteers are already walking them across the border to circumvent Border Control. Add to this the volume received in abortion friendly states that can be driven in. 

To anti-abortion operatives in states that retain abortion rights and to the Supreme Court members who voted to overturn Roe this enforcement difficulty is not their problem. It is up to Christians in anti-abortion states to enforce their laws. I suppose the assumption is they will do that. Reality is more difficult.

Anti-abortion medicines have other uses. That makes banning them all the more difficult. 

Perhaps no group is better at propaganda than anti-abortion. No group is more clueless about how the administer and enforce laws.

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