I have no doubt theres a few dissertations worth ofargument about exactly why political consensus around the war and consensusaround bodily autonomy had such disparate trajectories. Ultimately, it justseems like stories about dead soldiers and the constantly shifting foreignpolicy objectives that doomed them have an effect that stories about desperatewomen and an advancing medical dystopia dont.

For fans of American military bluster, the fantasy of theIraq adventure ran up against the reality of broken bodies and wasted billions a few years into the project, spelled out by the media with a remarkable lackof self-awareness and institutional memory. Democrats quickly and Republicanswith less haste recognized over time the human and material cost of theirdecision and changed their position accordingly.

Thats just not how its gone with the hellscape created byshrinking access to reproductive care. Im sure thats in part because the catastrophehas happened in ways and to people that allowed potentially persuadableRepublicans and, lets face it, most Democrats and the chattering class to ignoreit. Roe fell in America not with the Dobbs decision but instages, beginning with the most vulnerable Americans, until the curtain finallyfell on everyone else.

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