And it offers grist to both
ideological conservatives and liberals.For
conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story,
attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the
ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.
Social
conservatives have long sought to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs and funding streams on
ideological grounds, a campaign that kicked into overdrive both in the states and in Congress with the 2015 release of deceptively edited videos
attacking the organization.15, 16 At the congressional level, attempts to exclude Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursement came close to succeeding last summer as part of broader efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).