Originally published at: Watch Texas Gov. Greg Abbott weasel out of question on rape and incest | Boing Boing
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This Texas coward is the political version of “all hat, no cattle”.
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It’s actually interesting that he feels the need to hedge, and not just go with the usual “hussies totally deserve it” head-on charge. And that Fox pushed him on the issue at all.
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To be fair (not to defend Abbott), politicians almost never give a yes/no answer to a yes/no question, even when it’s a softball like “is pie good?”
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Governor Abbott, you previously stated that “rape is a crime and Texas will work tirelessly that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.”
Statistics from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) show that as of August 2021, there were 5,298 untested sexual assault kits, including 1,716 kits within the DPS crime lab system and 3,582 unsubmitted kits that remain with law enforcement agencies across the state.
And that’s not counting the kits that could still be untested at the 231 law enforcement agencies that did not respond to the state audit, although it is required by law.
How will you prosecute rapists when many of your own law enforcement agencies will not respond as required by State Law?
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They have their answer:
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Quite. Politicians of all stripes are trained not to give yes/no answers, but to reframe questions to their talking points. The GQP does this, but so does Bernie, AOC, Pelosi, et al.
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Actually, I’d argue that Abbott does not have the hat, much less the cattle.
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A sexual abuse survivor’s task force in the governor’s office? Not sure Abbot’s office is a place anyone who’d been assaulted would want to go.
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why couldn’t the so-called rape task force be created BEFORE passing restrictive legislation? did they not think of that?
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Because they didn’t anticipate the level of backlash to the law, even among their own constituents. Or that so many people would understand the purpose is to punish women, not save fetuses. Now they have to pretend they care about rape victims.
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What a POS. He wants to “support” victims of sexual assault by forcing them to gestate a fetus that was forcibly implanted against their will? Just fuck off.
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They’re not going to do that and if they do form it, it will end up being the morality police that harass women.
NONE of this is about “protecting” fetuses. It’s about controlling women. It’s ALWAYS been about controlling women.
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So,
stupidity = experience and emotion.
stupidity = ignorance and information minus facts.
The right side of this equation sounds like a MAGA rally.
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Once again, even if Texas was able to catch all the rapists it wouldn’t stop society from having to deal with this question because by the time you have arrested and prosecuted the rapist the rape has already happened.
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Oh stop it with your logic you silly person. 
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He’s right. Just because a bill was proposed in the House, doesn’t mean it will make it out of the House. Even if it does, Taliban Dan controls the agenda of the Senate, so…
If they wanted that provision, it would have been put in the law in the first place.
They are also trying to limit the ‘morning after pill’… I won’t be surprised if they try to ban all contraceptives down the road. Apparently they have no qualms about making Texas the STD capitol of the US in the process.
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Chris Wallace is a fine political interviewer - my guess is that he has a very lucrative contract with Fox because they can point at him and say ‘see - balanced!’
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