Could we please have a rest from declaring every single law, activity, or biological function that has a disproportionate effect on women to be "an attack on women?" Sometimes a tree is just a tree, and sometimes a bankruptcy law is just a bankruptcy law, not a thinly disguised way for the Patriarchal Power Structure to get us knocked up, unshod, and back in the kitchen, 'kay?
However, in perusing this, I was struck by the fact that our new law apparently has a provision inserted by the senate -- the only part of the bill of which the Op-Ed writer approves, btw -- making it impossible for anti-abortion protesters to declare bankruptcy to avoid judgements. Could someone without an axe to grind (i.e., no rants about the Evil Baby Killers or the Perfidious Sexist Haters of Choice, please) explain to me, first, whether this is actually a provision which, as it is described, singles out only anti-abortion protestors (or is written so narrowly as to have the same effect) and second, what legitimate state interest is supposed to be served by singling out anti-abortion activists, as opposed to, say, radical environmentalists who like to cause chain-saw accidents by spiking trees? Patrick? Fritz?
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