Molly Jong-Fast: Republicans ‘Really Are Trying to Bring American Women Back to a Pre-1950s State’

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JONG-FAST: “And again, what has happened is Republicans have painted themselves into a corner. They believe in this embryonic personhood, they call it fetal personhood, which means, in their minds, a fertilized embryo, a five-cell embryo should have the same rights as a fully-grown person, personhood. So this paints them into a corner, right, because then IVF, birth control, IUDs, all of these different things which have been legal for a long time come under pressure. And I think what is interesting, too, is on the activist side, you have people like Christopher Rufo talking about ending no-fault divorce. This is something that was signed into law, you'll remember, by famous leftist Ronald Reagan in California. No-fault divorce was one of these really important moments in American life. It cut down domestic violence. It gave women a way out of a bad marriage. It was really seminal. And these Republicans aren't talking about this sort of brain trust of the Republican Party, about getting rid of it. They really are trying to bring American women back to a pre-1950s state."