Unsurprising News – Leader of major Texas Anti-Abortion group arrested for soliciting a minor
Luke Bowen, the Political Director and the public face of Texas Right to Life, was arrested earlier this month for solicitation of a minor. The Forced Pregnancy/Rapist Rights organization fired Mr. Bowen on the same day he was arrested.
From Vice:
Bowen allegedly “knowingly” solicited a minor online “with the intent” of engaging “in sexual contact or sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse,” according to a complaint filed by Montgomery County prosecutors obtained by The Courier of Montgomery County.
Texas Right to Life is one of the most powerful anti-abortion groups in a state known for setting the anti-abortion agenda for the rest of the nation. As part of his work for the organization, Bowen had appeared on stage representing Texas Right to Life at a 2020 Texas Youth Summit panel, spoke to Politico in 2018, and served as its campaign treasurer, according to a Texas campaign finance report filed last month.
Via Boing Boing
On a related note:
A pro-lifer in action: Last week, Jeff Landry, Louisiana’s Republican attorney general, persuaded the state’s bond commission to withhold $39 million from the city of New Orleans. The funds were to go for a new power plant that would keep pumping drinking water to the city’s nearly 400,000 residents the next time a hurricane descends on the town and knocks out its currently insufficient power sources.
The state should deny those funds, Landry insisted, until the mayor, city council, and district attorney rescinded their pledges not to enforce the state’s new abortion law, which bans the procedure after 15 weeks and makes no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
It’s not as if abortions were actually being performed in New Orleans. Indeed, there are no facilities anywhere in the state that are still performing abortions. Landry, however, plans to run for governor in the next Republican primary, and so zealous is he to protect innocent life that he’s willing to expose the post-birth children of New Orleans to the ravages of hurricane season—slated to begin later this month—the better to protect the zygotes and fetuses being aborted there, even though there are none.
https://prospect.org/politics/pro-life-americas-most-patently-absurd-misnomer/
Freely admit I’m an Atheist, hard not to note that when it comes to abortion what drives the game is religion. As such absurd claims and hysteria are part of the game. As noted there are no abortions being performed New Orleans, but it doesn’t matter as the goal is to rile the Evangelicals and motivate them to the polls.
I liked when “religious” meant some degree of personal dignity and a basic sense of morality and empathy.
Whatever it means now is very far removed from the historical sense.
Jason
I’ve been alive more than three quarters of a century and I’ve personally never felt that “religious” meant some degree of personal dignity or basic sense of “morality”. Those branding themselves as “religious” have insisted that they, and only they, have the right to define what is moral or dignified. In my experience, accepting the brand name “religious” to define yourself is not much different then presuming that you have assumed the (Pope’s??) mantle of infallibility and should be the arbiter of right and wrong. “Religious” strikes me as a willing “Cultist”
Representative John Kowalko
I am offended, on Larry’s behalf, to his resemblance to Larry Fine.
I see it. Maybe if Larry Fine fucked a dead pigeon and that pigeon had a baby.