One of the many chilling ironies of the war on abortion is that the states most insistent on women having babies, no matter what, are also the ones with the least to offer those babies once they’ve had the bad luck to be born there.
And it’s important to understand that these states are getting increasingly insistent on women having babies, no matter what.
Goaded and guided by abortion abolitionists in legislatures, law firms, and courtrooms, Republican governments are, one way or another, actively blocking off any avenue that doesn’t lead to a woman of any age getting pregnant, giving birth, then getting pregnant again. Rinse and repeat. If the woman dies in the process, she’s easily replaced.
The idea seems to be that women are a sort of production line, whose purpose is to generate usable babies. The way they get pregnant is irrelevant to the discussion. If they were impregnated by, say, an uncle, or a rapist, or a clergyman, the laws of these states care not at all who the father is. The fetus is more valuable than its mother. And it has more rights. It only starts to lose those rights when it’s born.
Red-state governments are systematically closing off any access to abortion, and there are now bounties on anyone who seeks one, or helps someone else seek one. Such laws have the effect of legitimizing and indeed monetizing citizen-on-citizen informing, a glaring red flag for any
student of totalitarianism.
