By Miss Kubelik
The case of Kate Cox continues to be disturbing and enraging, but at least she's managed to leave Texas to get the healthcare she needs. Note to 2024 voters: Not all women can afford to do this. But more important than the money: Taking away a person's bodily autonomy is dehumanizing. It's a form of enslavement. Change our minds.
Then again, that's exactly what the Republicans have wanted to do to women in the first place: humiliate and control. Even when the woman is white, straight, married, a mom, and wanting more children. Cox is not some hairy, baby-hating feminist caricature that the right wing has always used to decry "abortion on demand."
So the GOP and their faux-Christian fellow travelers have probably picked the wrong victim here (although, of course, all women denied their reproductive rights are victims). As a brave and sympathetic figure, Cox will resonate more with voters who are paying attention to what Texas is doing, and not liking what they see.
According to the Texas law, Cox can be arrested on her return home. Just imagine her perp walk as a campaign ad for Biden-Harris next year. And Gavin Newsom can use it when Greg Abbott tries to lure corporations away from California. Freedom simply doesn't exist in Texas — and other red states. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
(IMAGE: Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
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