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19 Republican Attorneys General Want Police to Investigate People for Abortions (jezebel.com)

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Nineteen Republican attorneys general are asking the Biden administration to withdraw a proposed change to medical privacy laws that would ban doctors from reporting suspected abortions to law enforcement. The attorneys general argue the change would interfere with states' authority to enforce their own abortion laws. They claim the administration is pushing a false narrative that states are treating pregnant women as criminals. The proposed rule would prevent states from investigating people who help others obtain abortions. The Republican attorneys general threaten to sue the administration if it moves forward with the proposed HIPAA rule change.

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[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not prepared to call anyone still associating themselves with the GOP "reasonable" at this point. That's like joining a neo-nazi militia and claiming that you're just a member but not a neo-nazi.

Ditto for the people who voted for the Nazi party for "economic reasons" while turning a blind eye to... Fucking everything. They were not innocent. Very far from it. However 'normal' and 'socially acceptable' their day to day behavior may otherwise have seemed to those around them. Evil can be as banal and understated as anything.

Past a certain point, you just can't declare affiliation with an organization, make-nice with its 'more extreme' members and overlook their behavior and actions, etc, and still claim that you're uninvolved and not participating in and enabling what the organization has become as a whole.

Especially not when the GOP - in congress and in state houses - votes in near lockstep when it comes to their vilest culture war talking points. These supposedly "fringe" points that have such a mysterious tendency to become less and less and less fringe within the party as time passes and the line of what is or isn't "acceptable" (or even encouraged) is shoved farther and farther out.

Any actually reasonable members of the GOP bailed and became right-wing dems or independants or libertarians ages ago at this point.

[–] ArtZuron@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

That's my stance on it as well. If they still call themselves a republican, then they're complicit. If they don't admonish and distance themselves from the GOP, then they are complicit.