07-02-2022, 08:44 PM
(07-02-2022, 08:24 PM)samhain Wrote: It only took a week for a real-life horror story to emerge post-ruling. This is the kind of thing that the public wasn't really used to hearing about in the Roe era. 1 week. This is our new reality. The anti-abortion portion of our population will paint this as a tiny percentage of the cumulative total of abortions in the US, and they're not factually wrong. Even so, it's something so repulsive and against our societal norms, that even a few cases will have an impact on public opinion.
It's really surreal to see conservative reactions in local media post-Roe. Most of my life, I assumed that the right would be dancing in the streets if something like this ever came to pass. That's not the case at all IMO. Our local right-wing radio is extremely cautious about their characterization of the impact the ruling will have on women and the country in general.
Both Mike Allen, a hard-right ex Cincinnati prosecutor, and cop (also die-hard MAGA ball-licker) and Bill Cunningham, a guy that's basically the standard of Cincinnati conservative talk radio have been very careful in their reactions. Allen spent much of his show guaranteeing listeners that gay marriage and birth control would never be outlawed, while Cunningham (an attorney by trade) stressed emphatically that it would be unthinkable for women to be prosecuted for having the procedure in another state.
The line on the non-insane right seems to be that abortion is still legal, as they repeat it ad infinitum.
I think they fear that this is no good at all for the Republican Party. There's value in being the hunter and not the hunted. They have lost that. The rape and juvenile pregnancy stories will continue to emerge from the woodwork, and the right will be blamed for every one of them. They own it. They asked for it for 50 years. This is the kind of thing that allows a Democratic Party to cling to life in midterms, even with a president that is by all definitions a failure.
It just sucks that it's gonna be gallons of blood spilled for no real reason before this gets overturned (if it ever does again). I'm sure some will say 'God's will' or whatever other BS they can conjure to ignore the horror of the piles of bodies, but that excuse only lasts until it happens to them.
My only genuine hope is that this rallies the voting base and we actually start voting for real candidates instead of buzzword spin-and-speak toys wearing a human guise.
