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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Maureen Callahan: Stupid or Democrat Tool?

According to Wikipedia, "Maureen Callahan is an American columnist for the Daily Mail known for her opinion pieces regarding politics, feminism, pop culture, and current events." She started her career writing about pop stars and working for MTV, which might explain her inability to spot the real issue in Donald Trump's recent answers to questions about abortion during an interview with Time magazine (brackets in original):

    Q: Do you think states should monitor women's pregnancies so they can know if they've gotten an abortion after the ban?

    Trump: I think they might do that.

    Q: Prosecuting women for getting abortions after the ban… Are you comfortable with it?

    Trump: The states are going to [decide]. It's irrelevant whether I'm comfortable or not.

This is just another example of Trump understanding the true nature of federalism and what the Supreme Court held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022): that abortion is a matter for the states to decide.

    But that isn't where Callahan goes. Instead, she writes:

    Yet clearly, Trump – a man never short of opinions – is comfortable with this idea.

    This is horrifying for women everywhere. It is dystopian and, as so often said, the unimaginable stuff of 'The Handmaid's Tale': Women as property, as chattel and broodmares, nothing more.

    Women need to reframe this argument. 'Abortion' is a damaging, deliberately brutish catch-all. What this is about, more correctly, is reproductive rights. It's about the self-determination of women. 

In other words, she's fine with Trump being a dictator and ignoring the Supreme Court so long as it benefits her pet issue. 

    Moreover, despite her apparent fascination with being a broodmare, she notes a few paragraphs on that in states that have put it to referendum, voters have rejected strict bans on abortion. Which is exactly the point of the decision in Dobbs and Trump's comments: the voters in each state will ultimately decide the issue. And since women make up slightly more than half of the population, it will ultimately be women who decide the issue.

    The Dems, however, reject the power of the people or federalism. Instead, Nancy Pelosi promises that "If Democrats Win, We Will Kill the Filibuster and Legalize Abortions Up to Birth Nationwide." Wow, I didn't realize that killing babies was so important to Democrats. Keep in mind, however, that people who would support killing babies will have no qualms about putting you and yours into death camps. 

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