Controlling the Girls: Part II

NYT weighs in with an editorial on the alarming behavior of the Kansas AG:

Kansans deserve a full explanation of this gross intrusion into medical confidences that are supposed to be carefully protected by law. But Mr. Kline, a fervid anti-abortion campaigner throughout his career as a Republican politician, would not answer reporters' questions about his investigation. "Clinics should not act to protect the secrecy of the predator," he insisted in a statement, offering a blanket smear in lieu of a proper explanation.

See my previous post on this. And can I say just how sick I am of the right-wing scaremongering about sexual predators, kidnappers, stranger-danger, internet pedophiles, etc. You can't be against going after child molesters, can you?

Why not? Certain archbishops were, and no doubt still are. Though they feel justified denying communion to politicians who commit the sin of praying while liberal. I'm not, however, Catholic, so I won't comment further on things I know so little about.

But this obscene child molestation fear-mongering just drives me crazy. Children are molested. In great numbers. But it's not even a plausible excuse to subpoena the medical records of women who had late-term abortions. It's just a warning to those of us who complain about it: You will be attacked.

Like I said yesterday, that the attacks on critics do not consist of physical violence does not make them less effective as a means of control. Ask Foucault. Or just ask the girls.