You know if there was a national protection for abortion in cases of rape that would probably lead to red states shredding their statutory rape laws.

I don’t think I appreciated that all the ‘90s worry about teen pregnancy, daytime talk shows, “kids having kids” and all was–

Well, for one it was about welfare, that with the collapse of midcentury industry Black America was just being maintained as a purposeless urban mass with no legal way to obtain more resources but by breeding more purposeless urban masses.

But that to the extent it was a white thing it was about how the 70s way of life had spread out into the rural country and was, fundamentally, 20somethings and older knocking up high schoolers.

Which was maybe the next step after rural America spent the '80s parsing that it was an issue that girls’ dads, or stepdads, or mom’s boyfriends could be knocking them up.