Pre-born children. That’s the latest term pro-lifers are using for fetuses. Pre-born children isn’t a medical term. You won’t find it in use in any of the textbooks that medical students study. It would be akin to calling seniors “pre-death adults,” I suppose.

Words matter. A 14-week old fetus is no more a child than a 14-week old skeleton is a man. Neither is viable.

I’ve been silent as I’ve tried to process the legal actions being taken against women in this country.

Perhaps by now you’ve heard of the fight in Texas over Kate Cox, the young mother seeking an abortion because of medical complications that puts her life and any future fertility at risk because the fetus has tested positive for a fatal chromosomal disorder. The state Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened to end the career of any doctor who performed an abortion on the young woman and to charge them with murder.

Ken Paxton is a self-proclaimed “man of God” who recently faced impeachment from his own Republican Party peers for a whole host of sins, including pressuring a major donor to hire Paxton’s mistress so that he didn’t have to drive back and forth from Austin to San Antonio for those steamy SI meetings the two of them were having.

Nate Paul — a friend and major political donor to Paxton — gave Laura Olson a job at his real estate company in exchange for help from Paxton in ongoing legal troubles. Paxton even let Paul know when a FBI raid would be conducted on his home, giving Paul time to move millions around in hundreds of shell companies in an attempt to cover-up his illicit dealings. Read all about that here.

The Not-So-God-Fearing Paxton has been married since the mid-80s to another Texas Legislator, who had to sit through her husband’s impeachment proceedings and hear all about the tawdry affair he was having with four-times divorced mistress Laura Olson.

If the Republican Party had a calendar, Ms. Olson would be the Pin-Up girl of the year for 2023. Paxton wasn’t the only Republican politician she was bonking during this time. The 50-year old Olson was doing the four-legged hump with former Texas Councilman Clayton Perry. But don’t count her as unfaithful, afterall, Olson stood by Councilman Perry during that ugly hit-and-run incident in which the 67-year-old Perry downed over 14 drinks at a bar, then tried to pick up a 17-year-old girl, before crashing his car head on into another. Wisely, Perry decided against running for re-election, seeing how he was on probation and all.

You have to hand it to those Texas Republicans, they sure know how to make a mockery out of family values and Jesus Christ himself. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Paxton and Olson were doing the deed while Uvalde children were being pulverized in a classroom, given the couple’s penchant for flaunting their particular brand of Christianity, otherwise known as “Bonking Our Way to Heaven.”

It should surprise no one that Paxton is bringing the hammer down on a young pregnant woman. His threats have nothing to do with protecting “pre-born children” and everything to do with defying the laws of God and man. Paxton has spent his life screwing people over. This is just another way to make a name for himself, even if it isn’t a very good name.

Paxton seems confused about the Ten Commandments. He treats them like records to break rather than laws to live by. Perhaps that’s why the one he really worships is Trump, a man after his own evil heart.