Of course the lawyer trying to ban abortion pills is married to Josh "Run For Your Life" Hawley

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https://www.salon.com/2024/03/27/of-course-the-lawyer-trying-to-ban-abortion-pills-is-married-to-josh-run-for-your-life-hawley/

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the group that argued against the abortion pill before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, does not hide that its goal goes well beyond ending access to abortion, as they successfully overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Alan Sears, the head of ADF, explained as much to David Kirkpatrick of the New Yorker last year, arguing that "the birth control pill was a mistake" and expressing a belief that his group could destroy access to the pill. It was yet another reminder that ADF and their Republican allies aren't "pro-life," but simply misogynists who wish to roll back decades of women's progress.

But they also know that's a bad look. So during Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments over the legality of the abortion pill, ADF used a favorite Republican trick to conceal misogynist intent: Have a lady say it. Erin Hawley was tapped to play the role of the snarling church lady pretending to "protect" the naughty sex-havers from having a say over their own bodies. Yep, that's the wife of Sen. Josh "Hauling A**" Hawley, R-Mo., infamous for cheering on Jan. 6 rioters before fleeing for his life after the insurrectionists breached the barricades around the Capitol.

Erin Hawley is the latest in a long line of Republican women who have built successful careers by destroying the lives of other women. Hawley has been incredibly lucky in life, graduating from Yale Law and clerking at the Supreme Court. She is now using that impressive resume to deny the same opportunities to other women. She was part of the legal team that successfully argued to repeal Roe v. Wade, for example, allowing her home state of Missouri to undermine the futures of countless girls and women through forced childbirth. Tuesday, she took the fight even more national, pretending to believe abortion pills cause "harm." Her proposed remedy to this imaginary problem: more forced pregnancy and childbirth, processes she and the conservative judges pretended are a pain-free experience for all those who endure it.

As usual with anti-choicers, Hawley's bad faith is breathtaking in its audacity. She loves to wax poetic in public about how she wants a culture "that values women’s lives." In court she argued against letting women have a safe, effective drug whose entire purpose is making the process of abortion less painful and dangerous. But truthfully, even she struggled to keep up the act of "caring" about women during arguments. Instead, most of her time was spent in maudlin complaint about anti-abortion doctors who were afraid that, one day, they may have a patient show up at an emergency room with an incomplete abortion. To prevent this hypothetical situation, she argued, it was important to ignore decades of research showing these drugs are safe and ban the FDA from allowing doctors to prescribe the pills for at-home use.

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1. The whole right wing is a circular grift.