Moth To Flame

How can there be any reaction other than blistering anger when one reads of the situation in Texas?

Putting aside whatever spin has been generated, and hoping that the story as Rachel Maddow conveyed it last night is as accurate as it can get, how can anyone stand with Texas—and especially its AG—after hearing about the situation Texas put Kate Cox in?

When she gets back from wherever she went to get the abortion, will she be a marked woman, face criminal proceedings? Will she even come back to live in Texas, will she be told to leave, move to another state?

As the situation was being described last night, I couldn’t help but feel like we indeed have neo-Nazis among us—and not only in Texas, but in every state that has or is hoping to have these oppressive, medieval laws on the books. This is evil, this is conservative religion in all its oppressive, backward, ignorant ugliness.

What’s next? One might assume this story is far from over.

The overturning of Roe v Wade looks more and more like a total misread and ill-advised overreach. Like something conservative Republicans should have known would blow up in their faces, something they should have left alone.