I thought I would never see it in the United States. We now have no right to privacy. How many more rights will be disappeared in the next 15 years? (I put 15 because I suppose at least two of the current conservatives might “be called home” by the end of that time.)
Here’s one way to judge it.
What is the ratio of posts on conservative forums saying the progressives are planning to grab their guns vs. posts on progressive forums saying that gun control needs to takes away guns from current owners? Not 1, but close to it.
And what is the ratio of posts on progressive forums saying the conservatives are planning to outlaw IUD’s, vs. posts on conservative forums saying that IUD’s should be outlawed? Also near 1.
Two years from now DeSantis is going to be saying that “the left” claimed IUD’s were going to be outlawed, and all we did was put on a 15 week abortion limit. I know the limit will be a lot earlier in some states, but the point that it wasn’t as extreme as progressives on the internet said it would be will be true.
To save the republic, we must all post better.
That was a weakness of my post. If Democratic politicians stay away from panicky statements about the end of birth control, internet posts won’t matter.
Well, there wasn’t one yesterday.
For god knows how long, we have been told to calm down, that certain actions are so extreme that Republicans wouldn’t dare try to enact them. And then, they do. The Republicans believe that they pick the voters, not the other way around. There is no action that should be considered too extreme that the Republicans won’t try it somewhere; well, except maybe for privatizing social security (old people really want their checks every month, with cost of living adjustments to boot).
To which, sufficient voters to carry the Electoral College and majorities in both the House and Senate would respond:
Read: “Suburban women might not want to vote for me in 2024.” That’s all it is.
Anyone who doubts this should read the Texas Republican party platform.
In Spanish back home it is referred to as derecho a la intimidad, “right to intimacy”, the liberty of aspects of your life being none of the public’s business and it is not especially about sexual conduct, it extends to things that are recognizable as privacy e.g. the comings and goings of your children, health conditions, etc.
Countdown to Gov. DeSantis retaliating against any business JPMChase has in Florida…
My dearest wish in case of a flip of the House, is that then the freakazoids will just for the lulz torpedo Kevin McCarthy’s aspiration to be Speaker, so that all the debasement will have been for nothing. The man wants to be Speaker so bad that even Madison Cawthorn must be saying “have some dignity, dude!”
Yeah, I mean, look, guys, cut it out with the disbelief that millions of women (…Blacks, Latinos, young people, poor people, educated people) could possibly be on the R side or be OK with this specific turn of events. They exist, are many, and are fine with it.
Not sure that’s an argument you want to make, chiefly since slavery became illegal due to the XIII amendment.
Factual question here: How does this effect health insurance? Can health insurance companies choose not to cover abortions? Will employers be able to choose to only offer plans that don’t cover abortion regardless of the state?
…any plan that has as one of its steps “wait 20 years until two people have died, then maybe we might have a chance of maybe doing something” is a plan doomed to fail. For starters: it doesn’t address any of the things that are going to happen right now.
Uep. Men of his class will never have issues arranging discreet abortions for their own mistresses, wives, and daughters.
He’s not hiding from this decision at all. He’s owning it:
"Today’s decision, which is the biggest WIN for LIFE in a generation, along with other decisions that have been announced recently, were only made possible because I delivered everything as promised, including nominating and getting three highly respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court,” Trump said in a statement issued through his Save America PAC, referring to Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.
Yeah, before Roe, when abortion was illegal, my mother’s obstetrician offered to abort her fourth pregnancy. She was so shocked she got a new doctor. But abortion for the wives and mistresses of wealthy and powerful men are going to be available.
In other words;
“ME ME ME ME ME ME ME EVERYBODY THINK ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TODAY”.
Call me a pessimist but given the high inflation and high gas prices the past few months and are bound to continue through the election, I can see too many Americans selling their birthright for a mess of pottage – and they won’t even get the pottage.
I’m in southern Alberta, Canada, and the local news–which usually covers such things as a drug bust on the north side of town, the construction on Third Avenue, and whatever festival is upcoming–had the SCOTUS abortion decision front and centre this evening.
Why, when it’s hardly local; at least not in the sense of the construction on Third Avenue? Because Alberta is directly north of Montana, and the Montanan governor tweeted that in the wake of Roe being overturned, he was considering an abortion ban for the state.
Since abortion is perfectly legal in Canada, the newscaster was telling us that we might see a number of Montanan (and Idahoan) women seeking abortions in Alberta. Maybe they cannot get one in neighboring states, but Canada? Hmm …