The Fall of Roe v Wade: US Politics, June 2022

What's the tipping point at which international corporations pull out of the US because their employees can't get proper medical care and there are guns everywhere?

Poland is a historical aberration.

anyone know of any orgs that are helping women who need to travel for abortions? i wanna be down.

be extra careful if you're in a state which has deputized their citizens to sue anyone helping someone get an abortion across state lines. already happened in TX, and there's legislation modeled off of that in other states that will be rubber stamped soon.

not to deter you -- those awful laws make it even _more_ important to help women travel across state lines in their time of desperation

The gap... is just *enormous*

Old people have spent a lifetime adapting themselves to the status quo. As a generality, even when they hate the way things are they tend to be more comfortable with slow change than with the idea of upending the status quo and having to cope with radical changes in their waning years.

How?
― gyac, Friday, June 24, 2022

Terrible joke.

tbf, Poland has spent more time not existing than existing.

my mother's ob/gyn, who also worked at a clinic that provided abortions, was shot to death in his own home after returning from a memorial service for his father. the anti abortion movement responded by holding pro life rallies in the area in the days following his murder. https://t.co/KzQ027u2yl

— mark (@kept_simple) June 24, 2022

I'm not saying he's remotely doing as much as he should or even nearly enough, but is he not in this instance asking the non-gun-o-sexual majority of America to voice its fear and disgust of these weapons to drown the NRA-funded and amplified pro-gun minority? The bully pulpit is one thing but it's also helpful and important for the congregation to speak as well.

Have Americans across the country made their voices heard on any other issues ibe

anyone know of any orgs that are helping women who need to travel for abortions? i wanna be down.

"If Republicans win the House and Senate and White House in two years, they'll impose a national abortion ban!", said the elected Democrat in the currently Democratic-controlled Senate, without clarifying what he'll do in the next 2 years to try and stop that shit from happening.

— Josh Spiegel (@mousterpiece) June 24, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reads a poem in reaction to SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade. pic.twitter.com/tEFDbgR04M

— The Recount (@therecount) June 24, 2022

Fucking insane.

Insane that she didn't do what? Brandished an AR-15 she purchased hours earlier and promised to "waste their fucking conservative majority asses"?

Sorry. I'm just having a hard time keeping up with the changing standards of what's insane and what isn't.

Yes, we can see that.

Heartwarming: This woman's political rivals rolled the clock back to 1972 so she wouldn't be disoriented about where in time she thinks she is. https://t.co/gix5fJjLQv

— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) June 24, 2022

Let me guess - a poem by Bono.

This just sucks.

Doesn't have to be full-blown insane to be outrageously inane.

how about: insane that she backed Henry Cuellar over Jessica Cisneros

Can she get Bono to write her a poem about how profoundly she wishes the Republican Party become stronger

Joe Manchin:

"I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans."

— Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 (@ArthurDelaneyHP) June 24, 2022

I have … a few choice words for Joe Manchin.

Fucking insane.

― Salvador Dalí Mini-Me (PBKR), Friday, June 24, 2022 12:10 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Insane that she didn't do what? Brandished an AR-15 she purchased hours earlier and promised to "waste their fucking conservative majority asses"?

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, June 24, 2022 12:16 PM (forty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Please shut up.

Manchin needs to be spat on at his own home

Manchin needs to be spat on at burned out of his own home

Hmm looks like this thread a real contender to take on Twitter for shittiest hot takes. Gotta say “please shut up”, “STFU leftists/libs” or some variation thereof seem like the favorites.

Let me guess - a poem by Bono.

You don't have to guess. There's a link.

Hmm looks like this thread a real contender to take on Twitter for shittiest hot takes. Gotta say “please shut up”, “STFU leftists/libs” or some variation thereof seem like the favorites.

these aren't 'hot takes', these are real, emotional reactions.

I just posted a link on my FB to CNN's live Roe v Wade feed with a string of curse words. Seems like the best response to this.

I know it's hard to accept rn, but the best solution to shitty democrats is more democrats.

The best of bad solutions I should say, but still the best option we have.

Like focusing your ire on Joe Manchin or Nancy Pelosi as though it is their individual shittiness that explains why we are here and not the extremely fragile and weak power that the Democrats tenuously hold right now is a real waste of energy. Give the Democrats a few more seats in the senate and the shittiest ones either matter less or get pulled toward them.

I don't know how many of you are sitting in offices unable to move.

not sure how old you are man alive but some of us have been sold this bullshit story by right wing "liberals" for way too long to believe it any more

To realize I'll leave and see my neighbors and relatives, the enemies who vote based on the assumption that they can sever what I do from what I am.

Xp to man alive: As if that individual shittiness is completely unrelated to the extremely fragile and weak power.

I have female American friends and right now I’m watching American women on social media panicking that their period tracker apps can be subpoenaed to prosecute them so the “b-b-b-but! Incrementalism!!!!” isn’t cutting much ice with me atm.

Literally don’t understand how you can be like, this is why voting still matters when people voted to avoid this exact outcome and it still happened even with a months notice.

Like focusing your ire on Joe Manchin or Nancy Pelosi as though it is their individual shittiness that explains why we are here and not the extremely fragile and weak power that the Democrats tenuously hold

do you think Pelosi should have campaigned harder for Cuellar, called more frequently for the Republican Party to be restored and strengthened, briefed more explicitly against Ocasio-Cortez and Jayapal, or that she did these things sufficiently well?

even with a months notice.

They voted to protect the homes of the Justices with a month’s notice, don’t worry.

But don’t be mean to Nancy! I’m sure she’s signing off on a feisty fundraising email rn

one thing Nancy Pelosi knows: they are about to rake in some $$$

lot of fighting needs to be taken to the state level now, since we've been abandoned at the federal level.

there are only 20 states that have abortion rights codified into state Constitution, 2 of which have already vowed to revisit the issue this year (Alaska and Kansas).

Everywhere else, there's either a trigger law that makes it illegal now (Missouri, who signed their ban into law today), within the next 30 days, or they have heavily restrictive laws on the books that would have been illegal prior to today, or it's technically legal but no right codified into the state Constitution. Abortion rights hanging in the balance in many states.

In my state, it's legal, but there's a 15-week ban that previously wouldn't have been legal that is now on the books and begins in a week, and I have no confidence that they won't revisit and try for an outright ban.

Pelosi is just the young, hungry, energetic leader we need for that fight.

Let me guess - a poem by Bono.

Manchin: I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent...

you got played, bro

I don’t think the fight is at the state level. Those states are lost. The fight should be against the total federal abortion ban that republicans will introduce and likely pass within the next 2 years.

yes, let's not fight the fights that need fighting now, let's solely gear up for the one in the next two years (when we could do both at the same time).

like, people you know may need abortions in the next year.