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Let’s be clear: There will be no federal restrictions on abortion enacted during the second term of former U.S. president Donald Trump. While some staunchly pro-life members of congress will doubtless introduce anti-abortion legislation based on their firmly held convictions (which I happen to share) – and while certain Machiavellian chameleons like Lindsey Graham may reintroduce federal bans in the hope of helping Democrats in the 2026 midterms – it’s just not happening.
Whatever may be motivating these measures, the die is already cast.
Trump made it abundantly clear during the 2024 presidential campaign he was shifting the GOP position on abortion… leaving the matter to states to decide.
States are the future of this debate: Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago, it is now up to them to legislate the issue. The federal government is out of that fight.
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Accordingly, it was surprising – and yet not surprising – how abortion still became a dominant issue during the 2024 presidential campaign. Toward the end of the race, it was all the left wanted to talk about. As vice president Kamala Harris began to fall further behind Trump in critical battleground states, she began to lean even harder on “reproductive freedom” in her pitch to the American electorate.
“The men of America are seeing their daughters and wives and sisters and mothers put at risk because their rights have been taken from them,” Harris told supporters in Ann Arbor, Michigan a week before the election. “Women are being denied care during miscarriages — some only being treated when they’ve developed sepsis.”
Wait… is that true?
No, it’s not. In fact, a September 2024 exchange between U.S. senator James Lankford of Oklahoma and Texas attorney Heather Hacker is instructive on that front…
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Show this to ANYONE who has fallen victim to the lies about women’s rights and abortions. It was an absolute fabrication and nothing more than a manipulation tactic to gain votes and now create outrage.
— Ian (@Iwendtster) November 7, 2024
This is Senator James Lankford (R-OK), member of the Senate Finance… pic.twitter.com/40mjSeoefN
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Harris’ campaign was downright deceptive – or, at best, recklessly hyperbolic – in attempting to make the 2024 election a referendum on abortion. To the extent they succeeded in doing so, though, women just weren’t buying it.
Or, more accurately, not nearly enough of them bought it to move the needle…
“The majority of women did cast their ballots for Harris, but not by the historic margins she needed,” BBC correspondent Holly Honderich noted. “Instead, if early exit polls bear out, Harris’ advantage among women overall – around 10 points – actually fell four points short of Joe Biden’s (margin) in 2020.”
Harris also underperformed 2016 Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton among female voters.
“Fewer women voted for Harris in 2024 as voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016,” University of Sydney researchers Kathryn Robison and Hayley Channer noted in a post-election recap. “This is despite issues of abortion rights, Trump’s liability for sexual abuse, and patriarchal overtones at Trump rallies.”
In the aftermath of Harris’ defeat, many of the women who supported her campaign – and seemed so sure of her impending victory – have found the emotional sledding much tougher than they imagined. And desperate times – however delusional that desperation may be – would appear to call for desperate measures.
In protest of Trump’s victory, thousands of American women say they are joining the 4B movement – which began in South Korea in 2019. There, women vowed to abstain from 1) sex, 2) dating, 3) marriage or 4) procreation in protest of rising violence against women.
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@brielleybelly123 good luck charlie! #4bmovement ? original sound – BRIELLE??
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“All I have to say is good luck getting laid,” one TikTok user noted. “Because me and my girlies are participating in the 4B movement. That’s my next plan – and I’m dead fucking serious.”
“As a woman, my bodily autonomy matters and this is my way to exercise sovereignty over that,” another TikTokker said. “I highly encourage any other women that are single and care about progressing women’s rights and still fighting for our bodily autonomy to do the same.”
“Delete your dating apps,” she added. “If you need someone to cuddle or hold your hand or give you a kiss, I bet you one of your girlfriends would do it, mmm-kay? And you don’t even really have to be gay. It’s okay to have a lot of platonic love for the next four years.”
“If men won’t respect our bodies, they don’t get access to our bodies,” another TikTokker wrote, referencing her plan to join 4B.
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@it_me_phoebe ? original sound – Phoebe
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“Fuck being skinny, fuck being hot, fuck being all the things that the patriarchy wants us to be, ’cause clearly they don’t give a shit about us,” said another TikTokker who shaved her head in protest of the election results. “Stop dating men, stop having sex with men, stop talking to men, divorce your husbands, leave your fucking boyfriends, leave them – they don’t give a shit about you.”
Other women took the 4B idea to the extreme, encouraging each other to “collectively get hysterectomies.”
Crazy… right?
Absolutely… although in fairness to the lunatic leftist fringe, at least they’re acknowledging gender differences again. Which… is progress? Meanwhile, if you thought it sucked being a “white dude for Harris” before the election…
While I didn’t agree with Trump’s abortion gambit, it was nonetheless a brilliant tactical move – while Harris histrionic hyperventilation on the subject clearly failed to have anywhere near the impact she thought it would have.
Anyway, count on FITSNews to keep close tabs on this issue as it ramps up at State Houses across the country… including right here in ‘First in the South’ Carolina.
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Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and seven children.
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Somehow, I imagine most of these militant feminist women were lousy lays, anyhow.
“Anyway, count on FITSNews to…”
…keep providing alternative facts.
Thank Gawd those dumbasses won’t be reproducing now!
If liberal women had that much self-control, abortion wouldn’t be that big of a deal, no?
What’s funny is that the conservative men, who generally stay away from crazy liberal women, won’t really be affected by this at all. It’s the man-bun wearing, feminist male liberal cuckolds who try to make these harpies happy who will bear the brunt of this deranged reaction. And it makes the winning oh so sweeter.