Abortion Law & the Free Pass for Men
What foes of abortion really mean when they talk about “responsibility”
It’s quite a time we live in. Conservative-led legislatures keep passing more and more punitive laws to restrict abortion. Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Ohio seemingly set the bar high with their heartbeat laws. Then Alabama blew past them by criminalizing abortion without exceptions for rape or incest, as male lawmakers endorsed the premise that if God didn’t intend a woman to bear her rapist’s child, she wouldn’t get pregnant. (The spectacularly dim Alabama Senator Clyde Chambliss calls…