Republicans recycle mass shooting playbook to deflect blame for Roe overturn

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Republicans believe you will get used to maimed and dying women, the same way you got used to random mass shootings. They depend on your hopelessness.

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Republicans recycle mass shooting playbook to deflect blame for Roe
The template for numbing Americans to mass murder is being used to evade responsibility for abortion ban horrors
6:25 PM · Jul 27, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/27/recycle-their-mass-playbook-to-deflect-for-roe-overturn/

In the wake of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the horror stories about what happens when you ban abortion have quickly piled up. Women are bleeding out from miscarriages because doctors cannot abort a failing pregnancy unless the patient is on the verge of death. A 10-year-old girl was forced to travel hundreds of miles to avoid giving birth to a rapist's child. Patients with ectopic pregnancies, which are always unviable, are seeing care delayed and denied, risking their lives and their fertility.

And in the face of all of this suffering, what is crucial to remember is this: This was always the point.

Abortion bans are meant to cause pain and suffering. They act otherwise, but anti-choice activists are not surprised by any of these horror stories. The misogynist sadism that fuels the anti-abortion movement has never been limited to punishing women for having sex for pleasure rather than procreation. Maiming — and even killing — women who wanted to be pregnant was always part of the plan. Forcing victims to give birth to a rapist's child was always a guiding impulse.

We can know this because anti-abortion propaganda is awash in stories romanticizing dead and maimed women, whose "sacrifice for the unborn" causes right-wing hearts to pitter-patter. Christian conservative media loves nothing more than a woman dead from childbirth, and it's no wonder. A dead woman embodies the right's ideal of femininity: silent and compliant, with no desires of her own.

The only woman they love nearly as much as a dead one is a rape victim submitting to childbirth. Such a woman may not be entirely silent, but she meets the right's ideal of total female self-abnegation, a complete embrace of her role as a servant and vessel for the desires of others. As for those women who don't want to sacrifice themselves? They are deemed "selfish," which only justifies forcing the sacrifice upon them.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. A vessel... property.

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2. Sounds like they mean "lie back and enjoy it"

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. "Thoughts and prayers" won't work. Roe your vote!

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

[Sky Jewels]

4. When you have a significant chunk of the population

being reminded about their reproductive status every single month, you can be assured that this issue will not quietly go away.