All the way to England, our Attorney General brings such positive attention to Indiana: She performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim. The right vilified her:
If the notion that Rokita, a man who wants abortion policy to be able to pry into the uterus of a little girl, sincerely cares about patient privacy seems suspicious to you, that’s because the privacy fine was always a pretext for the ordeal’s real purpose: retribution, harassment and intimidation of a valuable and politically effective pro-choice voice. It was a case of a government official using government powers to punish truthful statements made in the public interest, because he did not like the political content of those statements. It was a chilling violation of the spirit of free speech.
Free speech has become politicized in America, a rhetorical tick used to shield huge swaths of rightwing speech and conduct from social sanction or legal review. To read most pundits, you’d think that a free speech violation was something that happened only when a tenured professor got yelled at for embracing race science; if you ask the supreme court, a free speech violation is what happens when a business is required by law to serve gay couples the same way it serves straight ones. But the right is increasingly mounting its own attacks on freedom of expression and they are targeting those who espouse gender liberation – especially feminists.
The Republicans make much of manliness, why then do they pick fights with women and children?
sch 7/11
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