The GOP’s Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True
https://newrepublic.com/article/180812/gops-worst-fears-end-roe-v-wade-come-true
The GOP’s Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True
https://newrepublic.com/article/180812/gops-worst-fears-end-roe-v-wade-come-true
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>Virtually every week there is a new outrage: Arizona, one of six states that will likely decide the 2024 election, is reeling from a state Supreme Court decision last week bringing back an 1864 ban on virtually all abortions. Florida’s draconian six-week abortion ban (a gift to the Sunshine State from Governor Ron DeSantis) recently cleared its last legal hurdle before it takes effect on May 1. And a bizarre decision by Alabama’s highest court in late February that frozen embryos should be considered children jeopardized IVF fertility treatments in the state and prompted a national outcry.
Maybe they can turn things around by attacking Taylor Swift?
edit: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-abortion-trump-vp-b2532258.html
No exceptions says potential vp. No exceptions. No IVF. You want a baby? Need IVF help? Too bad.
edit: The latest dispute to be argued Wednesday involves the interplay between Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion and a federal law that requires Medicare-participating hospitals to provide necessary stabilizing treatment, including emergency abortion care, to a mother whose health is at serious risk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-idaho-abortion-ban-emtala-federal-law/
>a Wall Street Journal poll in mid-March found that a stunning 39 percent of suburban women in swing states consider abortion to be their most important voting issue in 2024
Only 39 percent?
The gop’s worst fears haven’t come true quite yet. We need a blue wave in November to make that happen.
Vote pro-choice, my friends. Vote blue
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Women are angry and will vote this November.
No, they haven’t. Their worst fear is it being reinstated.
>In the spring and early summer of 2022, as the Alito draft became the official opinion of the Supreme Court in the Dobbs case, the prevailing GOP view of the political aftereffects of the decision was, in effect, “It will all blow over.” No Republican predicted that abortion would still be a powerful weapon for the Democrats in 2024 and beyond.
Amazing that this was the decision of a bunch of men that forgot that women vote in greater numbers.
The RepubliQan Party are the dog that caught the car. They chased it for 50 years, and now that they have their teeth on it, they don’t know what to do about it
Learn from this you cannot trust the Republicans all they want to do is remove people’s rights and control people they only work for the rich not for the average person.
My worst fear is that Swing state voters are not going to care enough to overcome the “Biden is Too Old!”, and “Biden is why gas and housing prices are too High!” rhetoric that the Media are spamming them with.
I honestly believe at this point that the GOP no longer cares about votes. They have other plans for taking power.
Not understanding basic physiology and biology has consequences.
I don’t think the GOP has even dreamt up how bad things could get for them if the anger gets hot enough. Electoral defeat would be the least of their worries.
Overturning roe was their greatest achievement, it took them 50 years, while progressives argued over the dumbest shit, cons won’t were packing the court, governships, state houses. Dems stood by and let this happen.
Please get out and vote. It would be awesome if people voted for everything they can. Because local and state elections are arguably even more important than the presidential election, and it doesn’t take that long to vote. But at the very least, even if you aren’t super jazzed about the Democratic candidate, although you really should be because he’s done a pretty fantastic job, realize what the other option is.
Also, not voting since an extremely strong signal that you just don’t really care about the issues. You don’t care about the steps that have been taken. And there have been a lot of steps in the right direction by the Democratic party. It’s not perfect. I have complained some mile long about every single Democratic candidate.
But you have to realize that even if you live in a hard red state, even though most red states are actually pretty purple and not that far from flipping, your vote still matters. I know the Electoral College sucks. I understand. But your vote still sends a signal, especially to your local politicians, that they can’t go as hardcore right as they think they can.
If even a quarter of the non-voting public voted blue, states would flip overnight. People don’t realize how close we really could be to a complete change up of the political landscape in America. If only people got out and actually voted.
When 5% is considered a landslide victory, you really need to think about that and understand how narrow the margin of victory is in a lot of areas that are considered steady one way or the other.
And the number of a local elections that are won by single digit differences would probably surprise you.
Even if your state goes for the other candidate in a presidential election, your vote still matters in the long run. I know it doesn’t seem like it. But it absolutely does.
Good thing they are all idiots otherwise we would have been screwed.
Their worst fear is not having any control. If Americans get out and vote this will happen.
great because this issue alone should sway voters to Democrats who will get Roe legal again, and save democracy!!
>“The effect is going to be that more and more red states are going to become more red,” the Missouri senator said, “purple states are going to become red and the blue states are going to get a lot bluer. And I would look for Republicans as a result of this to extend their strength in the Electoral College.”
Sorry, Josh, but your party’s also been ratfucking the economy for going on 50 years, so not a whole lot of people can afford to do that.
Wow
Religion was imposed on me but strangely even as a kid I just couldn’t believe it. I raised my children to be polite caring and community minded. I encouraged them to have their own opinion of religion and many of their friends and other family members went to church. I encouraged them to go with their friends. Now they are in their late 20’s and have formed the same opinion as myself. My husband is on the fence about it. Ibelieve all religion is indoctrinated.
Have equated the GOPs attempt to undo Roe vs Wade with a dog chasing a car. Lots of bravado, and it is what they think they want, but it’ll ultimately hurt them if they manage it.
People still need to vote in 2024.
Their worst fears won’t come true until we get enough to pass an amendment protecting bodily autonomy.
Perhaps the worst (or intended) thing about returning abortion decisions to the states is that (at least in most cases) it was gift-wrapped for ready-made Republican legislatures to put bans into effect, instead of going to referendums for the people of those states to actually vote on.
Bottom line is that they went too far and they paying for it and they are going to continue to pay for it.
No – those fears haven’t come true until we vote all their asses out of office in November.
Just. Fecking. VOTE!
Christian Conservatives: “You know, the Taliban has some really great ideas regarding women’s autonomy, but I really wish they were even more regressive with women’s reproductive autonomy. The Taliban allow women too much reproductive freedom.”
Oh man….Donnys diaper is going to being a lot of heavy lifting after he reads this…..A LOT!!!
Abortion is bad/ the Republicans proclaim/ oops they’re voted out
Bad Policy has never equaled good politics. Time to throw the Republican Party an anvil and watch them sink.
Need to stop calling them pro-life and start using anti-choice instead.
Remember, remember the 5th of Roevember.