New Iowa Law Restricts Abortion To Before Most Women Know They're Pregnant

[Rev. Rye]

Republicans claim to be fiscal conservatives but they love spending millions of tax dollars getting their point across.

Blatant hypocrisy about such things has been a hallmark of American conservativism since the 19th century at least. In the Antebellum era, the Southern Democrats (technically Democrats, but obviously conservative by the standards of the time, as Southern Democrats would be until Nixon discovered the Southern Strategy in 1968) were all in favour of state's rights, except on their big pet issue: slavery.

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1851 said that Southern states could enlist Northern states in the search for fugitive slaves (who may or may not have actually been fugitives) whether the Northern states wanted to do so or not. And the South was pissed when they did not want to (to the extent that months after the Confederacy seceded from the Union, they STILL expected the North to enforce the act). In 1859, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision stated that the divide between Slave and Free states could no longer exist, effectively, for the time being, abolishing abolitionism (at least as far as the Government's role in it). I'm fairly well-read in this area (I'm not a specialist, and I'm nowhere near a beast in that area as I am in the Third Reich, but quite a bit more informed than the average American of my generation), but I cannot find any evidence of Southern, slavery-loving Democrats decrying the basic aversion of their beloved states' rights that the court's decision represented.