Republicans: How Can We Appear to be Fighting Abortion When We're Not


According to news articles, some Republicans in the House and Senate are complaining because their leadership is not attaching anti-abortion riders to budget bills. Johnson, the new House Speaker, is negotiating spending bills to keep the government open. Forced Birthers in the House and Senate want to attach anti-abortion items to the compromise bill. Johnson, a Forced Birther, knows Democrats will accept none of these. One House member said perhaps a Forced Birth rider could be attached to obscure bills like when Post Office Buildings are named. 

If you were elected by Forced Birth zealots back home you, too, would be searching for something is display your Forced Birth creds. I wonder if at least some of the retirements in DC are happening because Republicans were elected to stop abortions and now see that is hopeless. 

The curtain of ignorance is finally rising on Forced Birth Republicans. They are now seeing that taking rights away from women who vote and giving them to fetuses who don't vote results in lost elections. They think they are laying a zero sum game but the numbers are not there.

The entire Forced Birth enterprise has been saying untrue things for so long they don't know how to navigate a world that demands honesty. They have been saying one fertilized egg is a human being. Their "pregnancy centers" first advertised in a way that implied they gave abortions. Women came to them only the hear a religious message they are sinners. In recent years many have given women the wrong information on the state of their pregnancy, saying it is too far along for an abortion when it is not. Now they are pretending the Republican Party will not be hurt by trying to stamp out abortions and abortion medications. Sometimes the truth hurts. 

Certainly, it is true Forced Birth politicians need to put on the front that they are "fighting" abortion rights. How to do this while doing nothing of the sort has become harder. The oldest legislative slight hand used in both state legislatures and in Congress is to introduce bills one knows will not see the light of day and then say they are fighting for their people. I assume we will see a lot of this now when Republicans know they cannot pass Forced Birth bills and expect to stay in office. They must kill them before they see the light of day. 

Surely Forced Birth voters will realize eventually they are being conned. How long it will take is anyone's guess.

  

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