For example, Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist.

 JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

+ Once again Biden demonstrates that he is one of the worst politicians–regardless of political orientation–to ever become president. He’s absolutely tone-deaf. Biden made his mark running against the Democratic base of the FDR/LBJ era: tough on crime, anti-welfare, deregulation, pro-banks, and a hawk. Biden also supported the Hyde Amendment, which effectively outlawed by economic decree (ie, no federal funds) abortions for poor women, almost every year he was in the Senate…He simply can’t do anything else authentically.

+ Biden’s talking points for saving what’s left of reproductive rights sound like they were written for a gathering of Actuaries for Insurance Reform instead of an angry popular mvt that wants Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett exiled to a manmade island in the Gowanus Canal.

+ According to a review by Pro Publica, the states with legislatures most dominated by men have adopted the nation’s harshest abortion bans. Of the 10 states where men made up the largest share of the legislatures: 8 have strict abortion bans and 5 don’t allow exceptions for rape.

+ Meanwhile, “pro-life” Mike Pence (back in the States from signing his name to a US-made missile in Israel the IDF was probably preparing to launch at a pediatric ward in Gaza) says the first things a conservative president (that is, the man who wanted him lynched on the steps of the Capitol) should do are: 1. Order the Justice Department to stop investigating and charging anti-abortion protesters outside abortion clinics; 2. “Pull the abortion pill off the market.”

+ Mississippi is planning to bring back ballot initiatives, but would specifically exclude any measures that would overturn the state’s abortion ban.

+ During a debate in the Wisconsin legislature on a proposed 14-week abortion ban, State Rep. Ron Tusler endorsed forced birth regardless of health considerations by citing the Biblical precedent of John the Baptist’s mother, Elizabeth: “For example, Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. Estimates are she was 88 years old when she was told she was going to have John the Baptist.”