COLUMBIA, S.C. — What Republican men want, Re-publican men get in South Carolina.
Primary voters recently ousted the only three GOP women in the state Senate for bucking the party line and defeating a near-total ban on abortion. If only men could get pregnant, as the inventors of the idiotic phrase "pregnant people" imply with their Orwellian wordplay. Allow me to digress for this important public announcement: Changing words and phrases doesn't change nature's intentions.
Nor do I intend to mangle the English language to affirm fashionable accommodations to nonsense. This maxim might apply as well to the argument that human life begins at conception. Inarguably, this is true in the biological sense, but life is more complicated than mere biology.
Sometimes, women — never men — are impregnated via rape or incest. Where is our courage in objecting to such transgressions? Never mind the verbiage that slipped the lips of President Joe Biden during last week's debate when he attempted to answer a question about abortion access. In a discombobulated non-answer, he averred that "a lot of young women who are being raped by their — by their in-laws, by their spouse's brothers and sisters .
.. by .
.. just .
.. it's just .
.. it's just ridiculous.
" I'll say. No one had to wonder about the courage of the five women known as the "Sister Senators" — three Republicans, one Democrat and one independent — who worked together to block a near-total state ban on abortion without except.
