Horrifying. And a splinter of the movement apparently led by men. It’s easy to promote consequences that you’re protected from by your lack of a uterus.
Seems Kansas may need to explicitly enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitution to make this go away. Even in red counties, choice is popular throughout Kansas as we saw in the referendum to ban abortion in the state last summer.
it strikes me specifically as desperate flailing by the far-right radicals in the state, because it’s pretty likely that in 2024 Republicans are going to lose their narrow supermajority in Kansas and be locked out of any chance of overturning the referendum they had last year until 2026 (or later). and by the time they get another chance the tides may have already permanently shifted
She thinks many people in the mainstream have assumptions about women who get abortions that don’t match the reality she sees when she protests at clinics.
“They’ve never actually gone out to an abortion mill and seen that the majority of women who come in here — they have very hard hearts,” she said. “They’re flipping us off and screaming obscenities, just wicked things.”
Gee, you’re saying that when you go and call people murderers when they’re going through a stressful time of their life, people don’t tend to be polite back to you? Who knew?!!
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Horrifying. And a splinter of the movement apparently led by men. It’s easy to promote consequences that you’re protected from by your lack of a uterus.
“the only moral abortion is my abortion”
Seems Kansas may need to explicitly enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitution to make this go away. Even in red counties, choice is popular throughout Kansas as we saw in the referendum to ban abortion in the state last summer.
it strikes me specifically as desperate flailing by the far-right radicals in the state, because it’s pretty likely that in 2024 Republicans are going to lose their narrow supermajority in Kansas and be locked out of any chance of overturning the referendum they had last year until 2026 (or later). and by the time they get another chance the tides may have already permanently shifted
Gee, you’re saying that when you go and call people murderers when they’re going through a stressful time of their life, people don’t tend to be polite back to you? Who knew?!!