The Republican War against women continued as Louisiana became the first state to criminalize abortion pills. The state’s Republican governor Landry signed a bill classifying mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs used to induce medical abortions as controlled substances.
That puts the abortion pills in same category as anti-anxiety medications Xanax and Valium. The law makes it a crime to possess them without a prescription or outside of a professional medical practice, punishable by one to five years in prison and fines of up to $5,000.
The law will also make it harder for people who need misoprostol for other conditions. The drug is used to induce labor, treat miscarriages, reduce the risk of serious bleeding from ulcers and other indications. This is yet another reason for women everywhere in America to turn Republican legislators out of office.
And we’ve ended another week of decidedly ordinary cartoons, with many about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his flags. On to cartoons.
What the future is for women in Louisiana:
Then and now, where “then” wasn’t long ago:
The Red Flags are there. What should we do?
Alito is sitting pretty:
In a not-so-unlikely future:
Haley backtracks on Trump:
Why do Republicans always minimize the Trump outrage du jour?
The Alito thing is astonishing. And I am vary familiar with his culture. Born in a city in 1950 he family raised him in the suburbs. I am a year younger, born in Paterson, raised in Clifton. Both Catholic kids with recent immigrant pasts. I was a Nixon voter in 1972 and assume Alito was too. Normally ones extremism is tempered by age but Alito seems like a man angered by all the liberal courts that preceded the now conservative court. And he expects to reverse as much as he can.
The most recent ruling that ignores racial gerrymandering because the gerrymandering is also political is a disgrace. So really, if racial minorities are also in one party, it is ok to screw them (as if political gerrymandering is not deeply unfair.)
And what does Alito not simply bask in the success of his movement? But the flags suggest he woh’t be satisfied till he has destroyed all of what has been built up since the Great Depression.