With the recent tsunami of anti-choice bills in state legislatures, media voices have stoked the anxiety by painting pro-choice litigators as gun shy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
During Monday's smug, self-congratulating second reading of House Bill 15, a Republican talk radio host from Houston, may not have realized how much he slipped when he said he liked the bill because of its power in "addressing the needs of the members in the House and the Senate."
House Members are using a backdoor route to get their way on “forcible” rape using patently false claims about the law. It’s not the “longstanding policy” of the government to exclude victims of statutory rape. It’s “longstanding policy” to include them.