You lost me after “Like Shylock, Alito wants an ironclad contract: If a woman gets pregnant, then she must deliver.”
I’m pro-choice, but this is straight up disingenuous & must be called out. The SCOTUS ruling did not ban abortion, it sent it back to the states.
The fact that neither side of the abortion battle ever really thought Roe would be overturned led to both sides upping the ante. Outright bans in trigger laws on one side, shouting your abortion as an FU to pro-lifers on the other. The vast majority of Americans are somewhat in-between: supporting abortion for any reason in the first trimester, and with further limits relating to the life of the mother or late-discovered birth defects for the baby.
You can be upset about the state of things, but to deny Roe had issues since the day it was handed down is ignorant. Even RBG said it was shaky.
Put your energy into your own state’s laws on abortion. Ignore the national Dems who were more than happy to raise money & campaign on abortion without ever doing the hard work of legislation (and no, the bill they’ve put up recently goes beyond Roe & what most of the country will support, so that’s more nothing).
You lost me after “Like Shylock, Alito wants an ironclad contract: If a woman gets pregnant, then she must deliver.”
I’m pro-choice, but this is straight up disingenuous & must be called out. The SCOTUS ruling did not ban abortion, it sent it back to the states.
The fact that neither side of the abortion battle ever really thought Roe would be overturned led to both sides upping the ante. Outright bans in trigger laws on one side, shouting your abortion as an FU to pro-lifers on the other. The vast majority of Americans are somewhat in-between: supporting abortion for any reason in the first trimester, and with further limits relating to the life of the mother or late-discovered birth defects for the baby.
You can be upset about the state of things, but to deny Roe had issues since the day it was handed down is ignorant. Even RBG said it was shaky.
Put your energy into your own state’s laws on abortion. Ignore the national Dems who were more than happy to raise money & campaign on abortion without ever doing the hard work of legislation (and no, the bill they’ve put up recently goes beyond Roe & what most of the country will support, so that’s more nothing).