I found this quote particularly disturbing:
“[Kara Brooks, Pence’s spokeswoman] says Pence believes citizens should be allowed ‘to determine appropriate medical safety standards and procedures through their elected representatives.’”
Translation: We feel that any random group of non-medically-trained citizens with “deeply held religious beliefs” should be able to get their equally non-medically-trained elected officials to outlaw the perfectly sound medical decisions of other citizens whose judgment they simply disagree with as long as the law purports to involve those safety standards nobody involved is trained and experienced enough to determine.
This was the rationale behind the Texas and other TRAP laws, but she actually admitted as much here which I haven’t seen others do as clearly.
