{"id":52829,"date":"2023-03-18T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=52829"},"modified":"2023-03-18T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:45:11","slug":"abortion-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/03\/18\/abortion-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders quietly signed into law on Thursday a bill that will create a “monument to the unborn” on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders’ team confirmed the bill signing in a release late Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not withstanding that the gesture is lame and counterproductive to real policy (whether you think the policies this supplements \/ replaces is great or horrible does not matter to its inherently lame nature) — I am more just a tad put off by the “cover of dark” nature of her signing it. It needs confirmation that she did a signing. And no, I do not know exactly how I would approach the matter of a bill you want to go ahead and support but do not wish to be the figure behind — or have a file photo of the signing. It becomes comical here that we get this instead — <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this Feb. 8, 2023, file photo, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deed is done. Get a photo out there of you signing the damned bill. Any and all bill signings need at least a photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other Abortion related news — this is a biased and loaded headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wyoming, the first territory in the United States to grant women the right to vote, just became the first state to ban medication abortion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It presumes a break, which I understand why some see a connection but I also understand why others do not necessarily see it and it becomes loaded against them. Hell, you can stay with a feminist framework in explaining part one — it was a “Mars Needs Women” situation — whatever it took to get women out to Wyoming. And, really, only a handful were needed. Under that rubric, are we to get the storyline that these grizzled men became regressively more unenlightened over the generations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders quietly signed into law on Thursday a bill that will create a “monument to the unborn” on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol. Sanders’ team confirmed the bill signing in a release late Friday. Not withstanding that the gesture is lame and counterproductive to real policy (whether you think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52830,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52829\/revisions\/52830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}