Iowa: will America's strictest abortion law drive female voters to the left?
A new Iowa law passed in May that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually at about six weeks.
That is before most women know they are pregnant.
The law, Madison [a Trump voting, ex-Democrat white woman in her sixties] said, is “awful”.
“We’re going to see a lot more clothes hangers used and women dying,” Madison said.
“I just don’t go along with it.”
The law won’t affect her, or her children, but she said she hoped her granddaughters would “have the choice”.
I have no doubt her attitude towards laws prohibiting abortion is about the same as that of most people toward the Volstead Act, and of many people toward laws criminalizing recreational use of marijuana.
And that explains her blaming, for women dying from use of clothes hangers, not the women for killing themselves in an attempt to kill their own children, but the law that forbids them to do that, or the people who made that law.
But supporters of such laws place the blame squarely on the women and the back-alley abortionists from whom they seek help.
Their attitude towards these women?
Well, consider most people's attitude toward terrorist bomb-makers who blow themselves up.
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