Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, speaks during a news conference on abortion in 2012.
Credit: Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call

With a Supreme Court overrun with religious zealots reportedly ready to void Roe v Wade and usher in a new crypto-fascist theocracy – Go Handmaids, Marthas, Aunties, silent wives and whores of Gilead! – GOP goons are already busy “removing the veils” of their anti-choice fervor and going full-on, red-meat, lunatic misogyny in their escalating efforts to remove any sliver of respect for a woman’s right to choose her fate when confronted with an unplanned pregnancy. Despite the longtime support of up to three-quarters of Americans for that fundamental right, GOP lawmakers have introduced 536 bills in 42 states to restrict or outright ban abortion, all in lethal preparation for SCOTUS’ anticipated reversing or at least gutting of Roe when it hears arguments on Mississippi’s post-15-week abortion ban in June. Combined, all those state moves constitute a chilling blueprint for a no-abortion future now being eagerly mapped out by forced-birth activists emboldened by the country’s rightward veer and enabled by a court majority of […]

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