The majority opinion, written by Samuel Alito and largely conforming to the draft of this opinion leaked a month ago, is the most extreme version of this ruling possible. The issue at the heart of the case was a ban in Mississippi on abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. That ban was intended, clearly and directly, to frustrate the work of Jackson Women’s Health (the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi), which provided abortions up to 16 weeks. The conservative majority could have simply upheld the 15-week ban. Instead, it chose to tear down the whole constitutional edifice making abortion legal and revoke the right to bodily autonomy.
In overturning Roe and Casey, the conservatives left no exception for incest—when, say, a father illegally and grotesquely impregnates his young daughter. They left no exception for rape—when, say, an assailant violates a person and impregnates them against their will. Alito indicated that there might be an exception in cases where the life of the mother is at risk, but for us to know the contours of that exception, some unfortunate pregnant person will have to make a decision—under threat of being arrested and prosecuted or watching their doctor be arrested and prosecuted—and then bring a constitutional case that their rights were violated.
If that sounds like a dystopian hellscape, that’s because it is. It’s because the court’s conservative majority, and Republicans around the country, want to force others to live in that hell. It is a hell created entirely out of Christian fundamentalism that ignores the views of people with different faiths, or people who believe secularism is the proper grounding for law.
Were Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh not under oath when they said they would stand by the Roe v. Wade precedent? What happens to judges who lie under oath?
Same thing that happens to presidents who lie under oath: the Democratic party abandons all its principles to pretend this is normal and okay and we shouldn’t demand better. Or is this “pretend Bill Clinton never happened” day?
“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”
Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…
Another picture from Kent State.
But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.
Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there
What in the absolute fuck
When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…
Uvalde pigs have been harassing Angeli Gomez, the mom who ran inside and saved her own kids when cops finally let her go, so much that’s she’s now living apart from her children. Now she’s suing them with 15 other parents.
Target knows when you’re pregnant. There’s a guest ID number tied to your credit card that tracks what you purchase, so they notice if you start buying vitamin supplements and unscented lotions.
That’s how an angry man in Minneapolis, who went to a local Target to yell at the manager for sending maternity coupons to his teenage daughter, found out he was actually about to become a grandpa.
This except I also pay attention to the things going on in the world so I know that the only way we’re actually going to get all of these comon-sense basic-human-decency solutions to our problems is with a full communist revolution.
They don’t like other people telling them what to do. But they are perfectly fine with telling others what to do. And if the government is behind them, so much the better.
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