Doctors who mail abortion medication pills across state lines have been on alert ever since Louisiana, which bans abortion, indicted a New York doctor for mailing the pills to a woman there.
Huh, I’d never considered that difference. Every grammar resource I’ve seen online says “in spite of” and “despite” currently have the exact same meaning and the emotional connotations of “spite” (which seems to have just meant “in opposition to” for longer than it’s meant “in opposition to for vindictive reasons”) never got inferred into the phrase “in spite of”, but I actually think your reading makes more sense for how it should be (if only because there’s no point in having “in spite of” and “despite” mean different things).
is this actually in spite, or despite? i’m sure there is some umbrage being felt, but I doubt that is the primary reason
Huh, I’d never considered that difference. Every grammar resource I’ve seen online says “in spite of” and “despite” currently have the exact same meaning and the emotional connotations of “spite” (which seems to have just meant “in opposition to” for longer than it’s meant “in opposition to for vindictive reasons”) never got inferred into the phrase “in spite of”, but I actually think your reading makes more sense for how it should be (if only because there’s no point in having “in spite of” and “despite” mean different things).