Robert ReichJun 22, 2023

Today’s Republican Party, while claiming to stand for limited government, stands for government intrusion everywhere. They are:

-Outlawing abortions.

-Prohibiting teachers from teaching about America’s racist past.

-Making it harder to vote.

This is not limited government.

Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 22, 2023

@rbreich

An aspect that gets overlooked, is the costs of enforcement.

Are red state governments so wealthy, they can afford a massive increase in prisons, policing, and courts for the "crimes" of contraception, miscarriage, hormone treatment, abortion, voting, teaching history, reading assignments, and college AP courses?

Are taxpayers prepared to see double digit increases in taxation to fund the partisan wishlists of Republican billionaires buying the votes of evangelicals and bigots?

Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @rbreich If the current wave of reactionary hysteria isn't blunted, this will eventually morph into an argument for broad application of the death penalty.
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@fgbjr @Npars01 @rbreich Speaking as a former Southerner: that would decimate the intense profit center of Southern prison labor
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 23, 2023

@jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich

GOP billionaire donors want to re-create slavery & Jane Crow. The GOP even want the death penalty for conviction of their fake culture war crimes

Much of it is a pretext to expand felony disenfranchisement, just like the "war on drugs" was a scheme to disenfranchise POC.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/nikki-haley-abortion-death-penalty
Sentencing women to domestic penal servitude for the "crime" of teaching history, contraception, hormone treatment, voting, reading banned books, or treating a miscarriage.

Nikki Haley Generously Declares She Wouldn’t Have Women Executed for Getting an Abortion

You’re welcome.

Vanity Fair
Show threadNicole Parsons

@jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich

Women who have unplanned pregnancies & can't get an abortion are liable for medical debt. It costs between 15k & 35k USD for a hospital birth.
https://www.justsecurity.org/71509/the-new-jane-crow-womens-mass-incarceration/

https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/04/jane-crow-the-life-of-pauli-murray-reviewed.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/maternal-mortality-pregnancy-deaths-overturn-roe/629816/
GOP donors create schemes to place the children of the convicted in foster care to punish women for the "crime" of abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/nyregion/foster-care-nyc-jane-crow.html

The GOP are prepared to tell 10 year olds that they owe $15,000 to give birth to their rapist's child

The New Jane Crow: Women’s Mass Incarceration

Institutional and infrastructural violence against women of color in the criminal justice system are often obscured by an exclusive focus on men.

Just Security
Jun 23, 2023 at 1:15amWeb
Show threadSane ThinkerJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich It's an unbelievable situation. The GOP needs to be abolished and replaced. They are destroying the country and destroying lives.
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Jun 23, 2023

@Npars01 @jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich A fanatical extremist organization, that approves ruining the lives of women & their families cannot ever be called "pro-life", but rather *pro-terrorism*, *anti-humanity* & *anti-Constitution*.
Like the proponents of slavery, which has been abolished in 1865.

[Could the real, very own problem of so-called "pro-lifers" be, that they're either unable to distinguish between "abortion" & "abolition", or that the just don't want to? And that they're having a fundamental issue with loyalty to the United States & the U.S. Constitution?

#RuleOfLaw #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #StandWithHumanity #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendment #RoeVWade #ObergefellVHodges #HumanRights #CivilRights #EqualProtectionClause #Equality #BanTheGOP #DefraudingAmerica