Anti-Abortion Big Brother is Trying to Get In


I've been saying here for years, the goal of Forced Birth is to identify and monitor every pregnant woman and investigate all pregnancies that end before birth. When a woman reports she had a miscarriage, Forced Birth wants to look at her cell phone to see if she searched for information about abortions. Now we see this effort beginning. Well, actually there have been local examples before.

This new effort to track pregnant women is the final step, the greatest accomplishment yet, in Forced Birth politics. A decade or so ago, there was a facade that women were not the cause of abortion. The cause was "the abortion industry" that tricked women into having abortions. 

Slowly, Forced Birth has been forced into admitting its goal all along is the control of women. Religion has been picked off the shelf as a reason to oppose abortion even though it is not in the Bible. This whole thing about monitoring women reveals the control motive. Is it necessary to monitor pregnant women just to control "sin?" The rest of the sins are "controlled" by preaching. Women have scoffed at the preaching so now the next step is needed, law enforcement. 

It seems to me there is some rethinking in the Republican party about using government to control women. After all, the party traditionally has been about less government, not more. The finger of "big brother" has always been pointed at Democrats. Democrats have never gone as far as Republicans in controlling individual lives. 

The Republican Party has to do a little reflection and figure out why it exists and what it stands for. If all or even most of the abortion rights initiatives succeed and Republicans are unable to take over the House, Senate and Presidency surely there will be at least a hint of deeper thinking.

I can't help but recall the first announcement decades ago when Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and the other whackos began the first steps toward entering the Republican Party. It raised some eyebrows about where this might take the party. Bob Dole made a prime-time announcement that the Republican Party welcomed people of all religious persuasions. I wish her were alive today to see what happened when the camel got its nose under the tent. 

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