It’s not just people who can get pregnant in Texas who are afraid and upset about the state’s draconian new abortion law. Men are, too.
Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah came on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal to fill in Molly Jong-Fast on what’s going on in her home state. And it’s not good, for either gender.
“This is not just a political issue, but what they’re creating is a culture of fear,” she says. “Ultimately, what this law is about is the intimidation [of] people and abortion providers. Not only the people who want to get abortions, the women, but their allies, their supporters and the men and the friends in their lives.”
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While the rest of the country is “shocked,” Attiah says everyone else in Texas saw it coming.
“The Republicans, the evangelicals, the right-to-life groups have been saying, at least since I was a child, that this is what they wanted to do,” she explains.
Don’t even get her started on all of the businesses who claimed to be about allyship and pro-choice rights: “I think there needs to be a lot more digging into a number of these companies. Again, like from last year, whether it was Black Lives Matters or trans rights, the silence about women is really something to unpack.”
She also tells Molly about the impact that Jamal Khashoggi’s death has had on her, whose work she had edited: “He wasn’t just a victim, he wasn’t just a symbol, but he was a man trying to do his best in terrible circumstances.”
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