Austin at Large: Look What We Made Them Do

My first political memories, as a child, are of Vietnam and Watergate; for my son's generation, it was, 9/11, and Iraq. We're quite aware that our nation and its leaders can do bad and wrong things and should not be trusted to learn from their mistakes. But neither I nor anyone younger than me genuinely remembers what life was like before, when every month in every town one might learn of someone who, unsustainably pregnant, tried to self-induce an abortion, and died.

What I do remember is that grownups, including myself eventually, were prone to arguing over whether abortions should be harder to get than they were, and whethermade it better or worse. It was an issue that animated people, including relatives of mine, who otherwise didn't really participate in or claim to understand politics.

Today, those other harbingers of Our Declining Values would barely get Fox News Nation out of bed, but abortion has become an incredibly powerful fetish among a quite limited, and increasingly undeniably creepy, group of Americans. Over the three days, as I write this, since Blake Lively's Met Gala cosplay as Lady Liberty was interrupted by the screams of naked Lady Justice, I've seen a lot of people on the socials and in my inbox misunderstand and mis-prognosticate on this point.

The events of this week are not just the culmination and intersection of opposing forces of nature, buoying us up above the great Circle of Life; they are the climax of what is basically a scripted reality show that has been running for 50 years.

What we'll know before too long is whether"ending abortion" is sufficient to appease these creeps or if they'll want more, and if the latter, do they have the energy and range to be successful.

'every month in every town one might learn of someone who, unsustainably pregnant, tried to self-induce an abortion, and died.' There are an est. 19,502 cities and towns in the US. This author is asserting that before Roe, over 234,000 women died every year from home abortions.

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