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Doug Ducey knows that anti-choicers have an image problem

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Crossposted at DemocraticDiva.com

ducey herrodPhoto: Howard Fischer, AZ Capitol Media Services

So Center for AZ Policy had its God botherer hoedown at the State Legislature on Wednesday, in which they were given a speech by Governor Ducey where he said this:

“I am proudly pro-life” the governor told a rally of members of the anti-abortion Center for Arizona Policy. “And I look forward to working with you on those issues.”

But Ducey said there are things that need to happen.

“We have 16,900 children that are now outside of the womb and are wards of the state,” he continued.

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CAP Day at the Capitol and (yet another) anti-choice law

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Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com

On Wednesday a bunch of nuisances with way too much time on their hands and a burning desire to meddle in your personal life on behalf of Jesus will descend upon the Arizona State Capitol.

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Sounds like a barrel of laughs but I’ll pass. This event coincides with a Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing where they will be voting on SB1318, which is yet another attempt to restrict abortion under the guise of “safety”. The bill requires all doctors performing abortions at clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.

Like all other TRAP laws, admitting privileges are a complete crock of crap, as Imani Gandy explains in RH Reality Check:

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Anti-choicers have a strange lack of concern for the “safety” of women giving birth

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I’m in the middle of reading Katha Pollitt’s Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, which is, among other things, an excellent examination of the illogical and inconsistent stances of anti-choice activists. Just to pick one example, of many:

Why is it rare to see large groups of people praying the rosary in front of fertility clinics or shouting at the women on the way in? Why don’t fertility specialists have to wear bulletproof vests? Why don’t hospitals deny them admitting privileges the way they do doctors who perform abortions? The difference between a petri dish and the womb isn’t in the embryos, it’s in the woman’s perceived intention. The woman undergoing IVF is fulfilling her traditional motherly role, even if she kills a lot of embryos in the process; the woman undergoing abortion is seen as rejecting it, even if she already has six kids.

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How committed are anti-choicers to forcing pregnant women to give birth, under any circumstance? Very.

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March for LifeLook at this rose! How can you say we’re not nice people? We like roses!

Last week was the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision and, of course, the annual pilgrimage of anti-choicers from all over the country to descend upon the nation’s capital to show what loving, compassionate, and totally-not-obsessed-with-punishing-women-for-sex people they are. Emily Crocket of RH Reality Check reported on some of the, shall we say, slightly disturbing things said by anti-abortion activists at the March for Life:

“Rape and incest are awful things, and there’s already so much hurt and pain in those situations, but adding more hurt, more pain [from an abortion] isn’t going to help anybody,” said David Held of Purdue Students for Life.

“I personally believe that it’s pretty selfish of them to go and kill that person” by having an abortion after a rape, said a young man from a Catholic high school near Lafayette, Louisiana, whose priest asked that the students not be named. “It’s probably going to hurt the whole time, but it’s a sacrifice that you have to make.”

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Paul, honey, we pro-choicers could have told you this 30 years ago

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Paul Krugman’s Monday NYT column is a sharp observation of how the American Right is untethered from evidence on a wide variety of policy issues.

Of course not. Evidence doesn’t matter for the “debate” over climate policy, where I put scare quotes around “debate” because, given the obvious irrelevance of logic and evidence, it’s not really a debate in any normal sense. And this situation is by no means unique. Indeed, at this point it’s hard to think of a major policy dispute where facts actually do matter; it’s unshakable dogma, across the board. And the real question is why.

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