AND SO IT BEGINS...

For those who were running their mouths last week, telling anyone who saw a greater threat in the language of Alito’s draft overthrow of Roe v Wade, that might threaten other rights founded in the right of privacy, that they were being “hysterical,” the following is submitted for your review:

Responding to Jake Tapper’s question, in which he noted that Louisiana and other states were considering criminalizing use of IUDs and asking “Just to be clear, you have no plans to ban Plan B or IUDs, correct”? Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signaled on Sunday that a ban on contraceptives wasn’t off the table, responding only that his state wasn’t focused on such a ban “at this time.”

Later, on “Meet The Press, the governor similarly hedged when asked if he’d sign a birth control ban, saying that while “I don’t think that’s going to happen in Mississippi,” he refused to say for sure that he wouldn’t - “I believe that clearly a life begins at conception,” Reeves said.

And in Arizona…

Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters (R) declared on his campaign website that if elected, he would vote “only for federal judges who understand that” Griswold v. Connecticut, the landmark Supreme Court case that established the right to contraception, was “wrongly decided.”

The candidate’s pledge dispels any illusion that the GOP will stop attacking reproductive rights once the conservative majority on the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade. 

Masters apparently missed the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) new memo urging its candidates to tell voters that Republicans “DO NOT want to take away contraception.”

Let’s recall what Billy Wilder told me 30 years ago:

“When I returned twelve years later, all my friends who had told me the Nazis were clowns, were dead. Killed by the clowns.”