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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud [View all]
"Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud
Republicans definitely want to punish women for having sex but they don't want voters to figure that out
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 16, 2023 6:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) With just over a year to go until the 2024 elections, Republicans are beginning to realize that the abortion issue won't just go away. The GOP has faced a political quandary ever since Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, opened the door to abortion bans, which red states started to enact immediately. On one hand, abortion bans are wildly unpopular, and have only gotten more so as we hear horror stories about women being seriously injured or forced to carry dying babies to term. On the other hand, Republicans don't want to just give up on their long-standing dream of using forced childbirth to punish women for having sex.
To square this impossible circle, Republicans have relied on their favorite strategy: Relentless dishonesty. Lots of pseudo-compassionate noises about women's pain, while insisting that their sadistic impulses are "pro-life." They pretend to support hypothetical exceptions to abortion bans, which for the most part do not apply in actual reality. They make weak attempts to rebrand their agenda as "pro-baby." They feign support for contraception access while supporting organizations that actively work to demolish viable birth control.
That is, most Republicans most of the time are on board with the lying-through-our-teeth strategy. But not all! Meet New Jersey state Sen. Edward Durr, a truck driver-turned-politician who has a habit of saying the quiet parts out loud.
"A woman does have a choice! Keep her legs closed," Durr wrote in a 2020 Facebook post, in which he also called a pro-choice woman an "idiot." He also "liked" a post that called for "spaying women like dogs."
....(snip)....
Durr's viewpoint may not be uttered in public very often, but it's at the foundation of the entire anti-abortion movement. Former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell admitted as much about his state's abortion ban, which he played a major role in writing. In a 2021 Supreme Court brief defending that law, Mitchell wrote, "Women can 'control their reproductive lives' without access to abortion; they can do so by refraining from sexual intercourse." He condemned pro-choice court decisions for accepting the view that "women (and men) should have the right to freely engage to sexual intercourse." ..............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/16/keep-her-legs-closed-angry-that-one-of-them-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud/
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"Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud [View all]
marmar
Oct 2023
OP
Started to reply with a "neuter these POS" but that wouldn't shut them up or stop the war on women.
Timeflyer
Oct 2023
#2
Probably all Conservatives should be, that would provably curtail a lot of their perverse thinking.
LiberalArkie
Oct 2023
#27
Yes, it is maddening. Though I still think in their mind, their number 1 reason is they
LymphocyteLover
Oct 2023
#44
But how many of the flock know this? I'm sure the vast majority just think they are following
LymphocyteLover
Oct 2023
#63
It is true that forced sterilization is part of US history, and within our lifetimes
Hekate
Oct 2023
#34
The Republican stance on abortion perfectly reveals their idiocy, misogyny and cruelty
LymphocyteLover
Oct 2023
#12
The Guardian has an article today about a young woman in Tennessee who had to travel to New York
Lonestarblue
Oct 2023
#18
I remember when Rush Limbaugh said that a birth control pill should just be an aspirin
Aristus
Oct 2023
#33
The absolute best way to stop abortions is to provide free or low cost contraception
Maraya1969
Oct 2023
#56
The cult of religion is real....and oh what it has wrought on the ppl of the world
PortTack
Oct 2023
#74