With it’s abortion bans, abortion trafficking ban, abortion bounties, faith-healing child abuse exemption and more, Idaho is the state voted Most Likely to Become Gilead in my latest poll of me.
Now that Republicans have succeeded in overturning Roe v. Wade and establishing abortion bans in most of the red states, they’re concerned that being “pro-life” is going to abort their chances of re-election, so they want to re-brand as “pro-baby.”
Alabama and Idaho want to prosecute women who obtain abortions in other states. I explain how that sounds a bit like the case of Dred Scott, the Black man who escaped his enslavement and moved to a free state, only to be returned by a Supreme Court that declared him property.
That means if incestuously pregnant teenage daughter wants an abortion, she has to report her incestuous rape by daddy to the police. Which could be complicated by, oh, I don’t know, say an incestuous abusive daddy that tells daughter to keep a secret or else he’ll kill the whole family with the Idaho-beloved AR-15 he keeps lovingly displayed on the wall.
The Senate has already made national news for the efforts of an ironically-named State Sen. C. Scott Grow trying to pass a constitutional amendment to forever ban medical marijuana.
I used to be a Twitter power user, but since Elongated Muskrat has turned it into a Nazi pub, I have since migrated to Threads. Whaddaya gonna do? It’s the social media run by the lesser-evil billionaire. I’m also on BlueSky, Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok as well, just not as often.
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