{"id":3834,"date":"2022-07-29T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:40:07","slug":"limited-government-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3834","title":{"rendered":"Limited Government Intervention?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JPA353.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JPA353.jpg\" alt=\"Limited Government Intervention?\" class=\"wp-image-3835\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JPA353.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JPA353-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tudor Dixon, gave an interview in which she was asked whether a hypothetical 14-year-old incest victim should be required by law to carry a baby to term. I guess you could see it as a &#8220;gotchya&#8221; question, but she has a realistic chance to be our next governor and with these sorts of situations now being thrown back for states to decide, it&#8217;s seems within the realm of reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her answer was basically, &#8220;yes, absolutely.&#8221; Which checks out because it is consistent with her platform and similar positions she has established on the subject. But sensing that she had perhaps said this with a little too much enthusiasm, she tried to walk it back some with &#8220;A life is a life for me. That\u2019s how it is \u2026 That\u2019s my feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For an individual citizen, I think that&#8217;s fine, even laudable. But not for an elected official, especially a governor, integral to creating, approving, and prosecuting laws&nbsp;\u2014 actual laws that have actual consequences for actual people. I don&#8217;t want &#8220;that&#8217;s my feeling&#8221; to be an excuse for what my governor does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tudor Dixon, gave an interview in which she was asked whether a hypothetical 14-year-old incest victim should be required by law to carry a baby to term. I guess you could see it as a &#8220;gotchya&#8221; question, but she has a realistic chance to be our next governor and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}