Curating content can lead to exciting discoveries, like this story from the left-wing-funded States Newsroom. I found it shared in the Vermont Daily Chronicle. No worries, they aren’t part of States Newsroom, though I suspect Vermont has a site somewhere. (Locally, it is the NH Bulletin). These sites engineer narratives with headlines and content written to advance approved narratives.
That’s not a crime. My point is that they are not non-partisan or unbiased, and they pretend they are, which is the crime. We don’t pretend to be anything but what we are on The ‘Grok. Edgy conservatarian pro-liberty, individual rights, limited government, more speech. Period.
So, I found this story and traced it back to its source, and the headline reads, “Abortion bans could reverse decline in teen births, experts warn.” The whole piece is written in a partisan vacuum. The problem isn’t wow, look at how many 13 years olds are getting pregnant, it’s damn, they are forced to carry the baby to term – what a hardship.
No one seems concerned about how or why the noticeable rise in early teen births shows how abortion was hiding something very likely more sinister. That thing the Left wanted hidden from parents and everyone else. The likelihood of an unwanted pregnancy after sexual predation, either by adult strangers, friends, or family.
Letting thirteen and fourteen-year-old girls get abortions in secret helps keep that secret, and the nexus of this conversation in this article is the Texas six-week abortion ban.
“These are vulnerable girls, and it’s just heartbreaking to see the number of pregnant 13-year-olds I’ve had to take care of,” Boswell said, referring to the change since Texas prohibited abortions after six weeks in September 2021. In June 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas enacted a total abortion ban.
“They would come in, and they would be very distressed,” said Boswell, who spent the past decade treating underserved women and girls at community health clinics. Not being able to help them get an abortion when they wanted one, she said, “was so hard — and so against everything that I trained for.”
If you are wondering where the left-wing narrative building is, the subhead for the article is, “Trump administration policies could further limit abortion and contraception access for teens.” This feeds the perception that Donald Trump is going to ban abortion, even when they know that is a lie. Trump has been very clear. He sees it as a state’s rights issue, which is what SCOTUS decided when it, to quote the preferred narrative, “overturned Roe v Wade. There is also nothing in the Trump agenda that I’ve seen that even mentioned contraception, so the lie is complete.
The message is that not only will these Republicans not let you abort the unwanted pregnancy THEY aren’t going to let you use contraception to prevent the pregnancy. THEY are looking to regulate mail-order day-after pills (chemical abortion). THEY “have argued that IUDs and emergency contraceptives are types of abortions, and thus should not be covered by insurance or shouldn’t be available…”
This is proof that THEY are coming after contraception, which is a lot like saying keeping sexually explicit or inappropriate material out of the hands of children is banning books. And like that, some will believe, agree, and promote that narrative.
They even added a few words about it being racist because minority teens are more likely to have unwanted pregnancies. Why is that, exactly, assuming it is even true? And might there be a solution that doesn’t involve federal overreach because, on the one hand, you claim to be afraid of it (Trump could ban abortion), but on the other, it is precisely what you’re after (states could ban abortion)?
Be careful what you wish, for it might end up in the regulatory equivalent of an unwanted pregnancy you have to carry forever.
