I’ll also note that the solution to Fundamentalists thinking that the Earth is 10,000 years old and that tiny humans are magicked into their bellies through penis magic isn’t to make a law that goes against their beliefs. It’s to improve education and figure out ways to convince smarter people to move into those territories so that there’s more exposure to foreign ideas.
If you want nationwide abortion acceptance, you need to solve brain drain not pass laws.
Create a program that sends kids to live abroad one summer of their childhood, split the dollar into urban and rural so that the backcountry becomes a competitive manufacturing location for corporations, etc.
Strategy isn’t everything but the world has gone all in on tactical immediacy and forgotten that you can and do still need to play the long game on things.
This is true, but there are plenty of parents of young women (or even prospective parents of young women) that want there to be an option for their child should they be raped or have a medical emergency during pregnancy. More than a handful of states (Missouri, as the first example) will immediately or in the next few weeks will have complete bans other than “severe medical emergency” or some such language.
The GOP is going to have to adjust their rhetoric, because the “no abortions ever, even for cases of rape and incest” is not a popular position, even in red states. And while this has all been purely rhetorical while Roe was in place, it is now very much live policy. Will it be enough to motivate suburban parents and non-evangelical low-propensity voters? We shall see soon enough.
Yes, but he doesn’t say it is unconstitutional to expend those resources, so any jurisdiction that wants to can (if/when Obergefell/Lawrence are overturned).
I wish. The perfect solution.
Im remembering Paul Krassner, who used to refer women to a safe dr. Sorry hes gone, but Im glad hes not here to see this.
I think the opposite scenario is both more likely and somewhat plausible: offer abortion clinics within the airport terminal for out-of-state travelers. Any traveler that has to leave the terminal has added several hours to their trip. Why force them to arrange transportation or go through security again? And on that note, the terminal already has a reasonable level of security, which gives them isolation from protesters and worse.
Companies and economists from across the board are coming out to condemn the move, and it makes sense why.
For starters, corps are loathed to deal with conflicting laws across states. It makes their lives harder. Makes their insurance packages and incentives look less appealing in restrictive states, gives their HR headaches, and can become a policy nightmare depending on what the laws end up being. They’re also in a PR bind, and you’ve got some major brands out their moving to support their female workers (with a few in particular even saying they’ll fund travel for women who want abortions in other states).
The socioeconomic impact is also pretty well documented. Female spending power and job mobility tend to drop in areas where reproductive care options are more restricted, hitting poorer areas particularly hard. In fact, a non-partisan group of major economic leaders filed a friend of the court brief in support of Roe earlier in the year.
Make no mistake, the companies are not taking a moral stand, they don’t actually care. But when a decision looks like it will affect their bottom line and hiring power, then you know they’re going to go ham.
Kevin McCarthy has said that President Biden must direct the Department of Justice to ensure the safety of the Court, churches, and “pro-life” pregnancy centers.
Yes, I know. That’s part of the reason why it’s important to vote in all the races. (As I expect you know.)
Yeah, but it’s the only one with that killing-babies hook. That gets some people who disagree with them on, or don’t much care about, the others.
That’s not what I meant. What I meant was, that they use it to try to pull in people who disagree with them on almost everything else; and on some of them it works.
That definitely isn’t the impression I get; not from what I see in the news, not from what I see in letters to the paper, not from what I hear in private conversations.
My impression’s anecdote not data, of course. Have you data for yours?
For another two years. And if Republicans take too many of the State offices affecting elections, on state and/or local levels, in 2022: don’t assume that anybody else’s votes will count in 2024.
Unfortunately, the laws in question are also binding on children too young to vote but old enough to get pregnant; as well as on everyone in those states who did vote against those laws.
Laws in general of course are binding on those who voted against them as well as those who voted for, if the majority approves them – but most of them don’t require the unwilling to endure nine months of servitude at the risk of their physical health, their mental health, their current and future capacity to work, and their lives.
A very large number of people who aren’t “perpetually sitting around waiting to get abortions” nevertheless become extremely anxious if their periods are late; and have continually at the back of their minds that they might become unwillingly pregnant, any month for quite a few years. Many of us never needed or never will need an abortion – but knowing it’s a possibility if necessary is kind of like knowing that hospitals and ambulances exist. Suddenly discovering that they’ve been banned would likely be quite a shock to the system, even for those who are currently feeling fine.
I don’t think many men in general have insight into how important this right is to women during all their child-bearing years and yes, beyond. They may or may not express how important it is to them even to their deeply loved significant others.
So long as a woman has a functioning uterus and wishes to have sex, the “safety net” of this right has always been so important. Birth control can fail. Sometimes we get careless through inadvertence. Sometimes we get raped. Sometimes something goes wrong with a pregnancy and we don’t have sufficient resources to take on a special needs child. Or any child, for that matter. Or we simply don’t want the responsibility.
Women think about this all the time during their childbearing years. It is an ever-present concern. You don’t have to be poor or low information to have this constant awareness.
Now this right is gone. Many women will feel its loss keenly. They are going to remember it every time they have sex and wonder if this is the night their pill was taken just an hour too late; if the condom is going to break; if the diaphragm leaked a little.
We women who are at an age where we needn’t worry about these things in an active way still worry about them for our children, friends, and the general welfare of women.
This is about female autonomy and women’s rights to self-determination now being placed below that of some non-sentient tissue that lives in their uterus until it is either by their choice birthed, or by their choice, terminated. Their choice. Not the choice of a bunch of old Republican men and one hyper-religious woman sitting on the SCOTUS bench, deciding What’s Best for Us All.
If you think women are going to forget about this in the upcoming mid-terms, think again.
The statistic I keep seeing is 63% of Americans wanted Roe upheld. 30% wanted it overturned. 7% weren’t sure.
That’s a pretty solid majority. And for many, it is a galvanizing issue.