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With the midterms looming and American women especially enraged about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Republicans are running from abortion – sometimes literally.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reportedly fled his home to avoid being served with a subpoena in a case filed by abortion rights groups seeking to expand access in the state, where abortion is almost entirely criminalized. While Paxton denies he was running from the subpoena, his little sprint is the perfect metaphor for Republican politicians and abortion rights: Many of them are running away from the very scenario they created and the very laws they’ve promoted.
According to the Texas Tribune, process server Ernesto Martin Herrera said in a sworn affidavit that he knocked on Paxton’s front door and introduced himself to Paxton’s wife, only to be told that the attorney general was unavailable because he was on a phone call and “in a hurry to leave.” Herrera added in his statement that he told her he would wait.
More than an hour later, as Paxton exited the home through the garage, Herrera said he approached him. “As soon as he saw me and heard me call his name out, he turned around and RAN back inside the house through the same door in the garage.”
Minutes later, said Herrera, Paxton and his wife exited the house again, climbed into a truck parked in their driveway and drove off without taking the document.
Paxton, for his part, doesn’t dispute that he ran. But he says he ran from a shady stranger outside of his house, and not from the subpoena. “This is a ridiculous waste of time and the media should be ashamed of themselves,” Paxton tweeted. “All across the country, conservatives have faced threats to their safety – many threats that received scant coverage or condemnation from the mainstream media.”
He continued, “It’s clear that the media wants to drum up another controversy involving my work as Attorney General, so they’re attacking me for…
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