Your fatuous quote of the day:
Incumbent Republican Rep. John Curtis of Utah, who calls himself “unapologetically pro-life,” said during a debate with his Democratic challenger in the 2022 election, Glenn Wright, that he wishes women could decide on state laws regulating abortion, but that overwhelmingly male legislatures have to do it themselves.
“Now look, I get it. If you’re a woman, it stinks that most of these legislatures are men. Most of these decisions are made by men. I wish it were other than that. I wish as a man I didn’t have to make this decision. I wish women could make this decision,” Curtis said during the debate in Salt Lake City on Thursday night. “That being said, it falls on state legislatures to thoughtfully decide in their state what they want to do.”
Actually, he has it fully within his power to allow women to make the decision. He just wants to make sure they don’t make a decision he doesn’t agree with.
This is patriarchy trying to be modern. It just doesn’t work.
And, by the way, “states” are just a method of organizing government. They are not “endowed by their creator with inalienable rights.” That’s for people, not abstract organizing functions.