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You're a damn fool if you don't think that one of Bush's most important goals as president is to "outlaw abortion", which is, according to his personal beliefs and those of the people who elected him, tantamount to mass genocide.
Oh, Bush won't try to overturn Roe V Wade. Any 10 year old knows that term, it's too inflammatory, it attracts attention from even the dopiest of apolitical mouth-breathers in this country.
No, he won't take away the rights of women to have abortions. He'll *give rights* to those voiceless masses called zygotes and fetuses. We already have the Peterson decision where is has been legally established, in a blue state, that a fetus is a person. It BLOWS ME AWAY how few people found that court decision to be a big deal with massive implications.
Here's how it will start. First, we'll grant civil rights to 3rd trimester fetuses (40 weeks is full term, FYI). After all, as the Peterson ruling set up, is a fetus could possibly maybe "live" as preemie, then it's a legal human being. But, with the aid of medicine and science (which these people seem to think is Satan's trickery unless it benefits them), we have fetuses that survive at 22 weeks. That's 2nd trimester territory! So, we'll grant rights to 2nd and 3rd trimester fetuses.
Now all's you have to do is make it as hard as possible for women to get first trimester abortions, and we're almost set. Cut funding, go after clinics with zoning regulations or audits or inspections or smear campaigns, have public high schools show kids pictures of dismembered fetuses, open those fake "clinics" that coerce scared pregnant women into "not killing their baby", and get your constituents to protest and bomb abortion clinics even more. Make it scary and difficult enough to for women to get cells sucked out of their uterus early on, and they're stuck with the fetus until the end.
Well, the poor ones, anyhow. Women with money were flying to Europe to abortions when it was illegal here, and that trend will just pick up again. To keep in line with all of reproductive control history, it's the poorest amongst us that get stuck with unwanted children.
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