{"id":101984,"date":"2022-05-15T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=101984"},"modified":"2022-05-15T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:34:10","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-may-13th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=101984","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, May 13th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, May 13th, 2022…but before we begin, in an editorial at FOX News <\/em>you should read in its entirety, as is sets the table for the deceptive distractors at the end, one Rachel O’Leary Carmona assures us, all the facts to the contrary notwithstanding…<\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of Roe v Wade hurts you, too, even if you don’t plan to march<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

For most of us, abortion is many things and not all of them fit neatly into boxes<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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“…Here\u2019s the problem: What\u2019s about to happen in this country isn\u2019t just an assault on the vocal minority of women\u00a0who\u2019ve been taking to the streets, to state capitals, to the Capitol to demand that our voices are heard, that our rights aren\u2019t trampled on, that our bodies stay ours.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an assault on the silent majority of this country, too.<\/span> On the women \u2014 and men \u2014 who haven\u2019t chanted, marched, or protested.<\/span> Who haven\u2019t taken to the streets or shown up to halls of power.<\/span> Who still, nonetheless, want<\/em><\/span> abortion to be safe, accessible, and legal. (Within definite limits<\/span> Ms. O’Leary Carmona and other abortion-on-demand zealots don’t share<\/span>!<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a whopping 80% of all Americans, a supermajority.<\/span> Some of us identify as pro-choice; others don\u2019t.<\/span> Some of us are Democrats; some are Republicans; and others still are apolitical.<\/span> Some of us get lifesaving health care from Planned Parenthood<\/em><\/span>; others have protested outside its doors.<\/span> Some of us believe abortion is fundamental, an extension of our right to privacy and bodily autonomy.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Others have deeply-held religious and moral objections to it.<\/span> For some of us, abortion is a decision we made and have never regretted.<\/span> For others, abortion was the backup plan to a backup plan to a backup plan we never wanted to use.<\/span> For some of us, abortion is the defining political issue of our times.<\/span> For others, it\u2019s deeply, deeply personal.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For most of us, it\u2019s not so simple.<\/span> It\u2019s not just good or bad.<\/span> It\u2019s not just right or wrong.<\/span> For most of us, abortion is many things, and not all of them fit neatly into boxes.<\/span> And yet, nearly one in four women in this country will have an abortion in her life.<\/span> You probably love someone who\u2019s had an abortion, or will have one someday.<\/span> You definitely know her.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It makes sense, then, that while eighty percent of this country agrees on almost nothing \u2014 even and especially regarding abortion \u2014 there is one big exception: When the time comes to make this deeply personal choice, 80%<\/span><\/em> of this country believes that you and your doctor<\/span><\/em> should have the right to make it together<\/span><\/em>, without the government holding you back.<\/span> (Unlike the WuFlu vaccine!<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That<\/span><\/em> is what\u2019s at risk if and when this horrific<\/em><\/span> Alito decision takes effect \u2014 and what makes the decision so horrific<\/span><\/em> in the first place.<\/span> Because this ruling doesn\u2019t just go after Democrats, or the pro-choice movement, or the feminists the far right has always looked down upon, or the activists they\u2019ve never cared for.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It goes after everyone<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> It has the potential<\/span><\/em> to criminalize everyone<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Not just the vocal minority in the streets in deep blue states and cities, but the silent majority sitting around their kitchen tables in small conservative towns like the one I call home in Texas, grateful for the abortion their wife was able to access during a pregnancy that put her health at risk<\/em><\/span>, or afraid of the one their granddaughter might no longer be able to access if she were raped<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

You know, ’cause Republicans are hellbent on banning abortion even in cases of rape and incest, or when the health of the mother is at risk.\u00a0 We also like the grossly exaggerated “statistics” O’Leary Carmona pulled out of her ass.\u00a0 The entire editorial is composed of fact-free assumptions, generalizations and misrepresentations.\u00a0 You know, like a Biden speech or Psaki press conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since we’re on the subject of lying pieces of sh*t, watch as Bret Baier takes Senator Chris Murphy, one of the bigger bits of human excrement currently soiling the halls of the Capitol, to task for completely mischaracterizing Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill:<\/strong><\/p>\n