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" Back in 2007, Supreme Court Justice Anthony (Weathervane) Kennedy produced a paragraph in a decision called Carhart v. Gonzales that changed the game on reproductive rights in this country. The case involved the constitutionality of the federal ban on &amp;quot;partial-birth abortion,&amp;quot; a term with no medical meaning whatsoever, but great use as a term of art for the anti-choice people, which now found itself hallowed by legislative action. Kennedy proceeded to hallow it by judicial blessing. &amp;quot;It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound, when she learns, only after the event, what she once did not know: that she allowed a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast developing brain of her unborn child, a child assuming the human form.&amp;quot; In that paragraph -- a weird, paternalistic, and tragically extra-legal paragraph -- we find that Kennedy has shown the way for state legislatures and governor&amp;#039;s mansions full of zygote-fetishists to open a new and effective front in the war against ladyparts and the ladies who use them. Now, the various Cro Magnons can say they are acting for the safety not merely of the pre-born, but also of the mother who, being a lady with ladyparts, needs their help in protecting them against herself. This is where we get last night&amp;#039;s ruling in Texas that reactivated that state&amp;#039;s new restrictions on the exercise of reproductive rights. Kennedy gave these states the opportunity to pretend they give a damn about women&amp;#039;s health, and the one thing we know about modern conservatism is that it loves to pretend that it cares. (They are holding hearings into Glitchghazigate because they care so deeply about the uninsured. Paul Ryan is forever talking about his concern for the poor, which is manifested by his willingness to starve them a little for their own good.) Be careful when they say they care about something. It&amp;#039;s a dead giveaway that the only thing they really care about is that the thing disappear. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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