I feel I owed it to them

The fascist crank Michigan Republicans barfed up as their candidate for governor — I’m not sure how Democrats are responsible for the preferences of Republican primary voters in this one, although I’m sure National Review is on the case — says that teenage girls need to be forced to carry a child conceived through rape to term for their own good:

Tudor Dixon, Michigan’s Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for governor, said in an interview this week that she opposes rape exceptions to abortion bans—even for children and teens—because having a baby can be “healing” after the trauma of sexual assault.

When a Fox 2 Detroit anchor pressed her on why she would deny a 14-year-old rape victim an abortion, Dixon said it’s because she’s spoken to children born of rape. “The bond that those two people made and the fact that out of that tragedy there was healing through that baby, it’s something that we don’t think about,” she said.

The initial reaction to overruling Roe was highly negative. and this is only going to intensify as people find out how lunatic the mainstream Republican positions on abortion are:

I think it has not sunk in how absolutely monstrous many Republican nominees are on abortion. Views that were rejected by the public in the last century are now the mainstream Republican. https://t.co/7Y0uIyKYHM— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) August 20, 2022