Gag orders
Like the War on Drugs, the War on Reproductive Freedom is going to be an assault on a broad array of civil liberties:
If Slate ran a piece explaining how women in red states can still obtain abortion pills on the internet—through, say, @Plancpills—we could be charged with a felony offense and imprisoned for years under this model legislation. https://t.co/8qojxiCHOt pic.twitter.com/8kv768KwAe— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 29, 2022
This model legislation was released by @nrlc, which will now lobby red state lawmakers to adopt it. The goal is to create a legal regime that targets not just providers, but anyone who "aids or abets" abortion, even by merely "encouraging" someone to terminate a pregnancy.— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 29, 2022
Well, it’s not like Republican legislators are just empty vessels happy to enact whatever their pet lobbyists send them into law or [taps earpiece] yikes.
Meanwhile, let’s check in on the libertarian [LOL] pundits whose current job is to inform readers that overruling Roe will work out great, actually:
Only!
Also, 14-year-olds being forced to carry pregnancies to term also seems very bad, to me, but then I lack that special form of Elite Contrarian Pundit brain poisoning.