{"id":186430,"date":"2014-01-22T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/22\/charlie-pierce-gets-it\/"},"modified":"2014-01-22T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T01:31:00","slug":"charlie-pierce-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/22\/charlie-pierce-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Pierce Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce notes that when you look at those who wish to criminalize abortion (and birth control), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/no-common-ground-on-abortion-012214\">There Is No Common Ground On Abortion<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They want to punish women for their own sexuality.&nbsp; They want to remove their autonomy, and they (Catholic Church excepted) don&#8217;t give a damn about children once they are born into poverty. <\/p>\n<p>These people who are afraid by women, and the power that women possess, and want to minimize it, and there can be no compromise.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of&nbsp; &#8220;Common Ground&#8221; is that it provides a way for Democrats to weasel out of this.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what, the only people who feel inspired to vote for members of the weasel family are other weasels, like skunks.<\/p>\n<p>Go read the rest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce notes that when you look at those who wish to criminalize abortion (and birth control), &#8220;There Is No Common Ground On Abortion.&#8221; They want to punish women for their own sexuality.&nbsp; They want to remove their autonomy, and they (Catholic Church excepted) don&#8217;t give a damn about children once they are born into poverty. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,1002,1051,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}