Now That the Anti-Abortion Bills Passed in Texas, the Pro-Life Crowd is Terrified of Facing the Consequences

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Erick Erickson makes a living trying to rile up progressives and liberals for the entertainment of the more terrible elements of the right wing. It is difficult to know how much he believes the things he says, and how much he is playing to his audience. Put another way, is he really such a horrible person, or does he just play one on TV? The only thing I know for sure that he is very good at the job I just described. In the early hours of Saturday, July 13, 2013, he tweeted the following:

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The above image is from an article on Daily Kos. As of this writing, at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, July 14, the tweet no longer appears in Erickson’s Twitter timeline, which leads me to suspect that he could not handle the heat he received. This should not be a surprise.

He did leave up some other gems, however:

Be sure to check out his notpology:

There are far, far more tweets and retweets that he offers, but you get the idea. All he has to respond with are visceral and oft-inaccurate descriptions of an abortion procedure, and repeats of the “Hail Satan” and “jars of feces” slander.

The “Hail Satan” thing should have embarrassed most people. The “jars of feces” thing is a classic example of taking a minimal mount of information and extrapolating it to whatever slander suits your needs. The whole thing was based on a single DPS press release that used “suspected” three times in one sentence, and never once identified from whom officers allegedly seized the items. People like Erickson removed “suspected” and added unfounded assertions that the jars of urine and feces (which are “suspected,” remember?) were found on protesters. Even local news was sloppy in its reporting on this.

The advantage, of course, is that Erickson and his people never have to talk about anything that comes after the passage of these bills, because they think they can always fall back on calling their opponents Satan-worshipping, baby-killing poop throwers. Some people are ignorant or gullible enough to accept that at face value. Most people are not.

Now that these bills have passed, their supporters don’t want to talk about what comes next. They know that abortions will continue to happen, and that they will be less safe. They don’t seem to care about what happens to people who, out of desperation, seek out back-alley or “flea market” abortions. As long as they have stopped legal procedures from taking place, the “pro-life” crowd can feel good about themselves and blame any future injuries and deaths on criminals.

They also desperately and pathetically try to link abortion rights supporters to Kermit Gosnell, with nothing but gullbility to support their argument.

As if this isn’t bad enough, most abortion opponents will not support measures that are demonstrably effective at reducing the number of abortions, both legal and illegal, that take place. Things like sex education, contraception, and adequate health care. Suddenly, it becomes a question of why they should have to pay for it (whatever “it” happens to be). Even then, all they can do is offer mockery.

I don’t know whether or not they actually care that women are going to die. I do know that a great many of them will fight against any effort by the public to offer assistance to the people who are compelled to give birth under these laws. As long as they think they have a clear conscience, supporters of these laws cannot be bothered to care about what comes next. And they will go to great lengths to discredit anyone who tries to ask them about what comes next.

They’ll even call you a devil-worshipping turd flinger because for them it’s not about saving lives. It’s about them being right, and about women and liberals being wrong, even if it kills people.

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