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A column by Abby Zimet
A column by Abby Zimet

Texas GOP To Taliban: Hold My Beer and See Privatized Fascism At Fervent Work

Thanks to a SCOTUS-approved act of "reproductive terrorism," Texas is ominously mutating into Gilead with its dystopian law effectively banning abortion in "breathtaking" defiance of women's rights and existing law - may Susan Collins have no peace - while deputizing religious zealots as pro-life-just-till-they're-born bounty-hunters. The cognitive dissonance screams in a COVID-besieged state where leaders have banned masks/ vaccines and okayed license-less guns in the fervid name of "personal freedom" from big government, and where, says one woman among many, "I am all grief and rage."

Abby Zimet · Sep 1, 2021

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