with sorrow we dissent

[tsuki_no_bara]

in the "welcome to the handmaid's tale" department, half the us can now kiss reproductive rights goodbye, as the supreme court overturned roe v wade today. it's the first time in the history of the country that scotus repealed a right that most people actually support. and justice roberts was whining just last month about how people don't trust

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[amberdreams]

I've been raging here on behalf of all American potential child bearers - it's shocking (and yet not surprising). I loved Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's twitter response but fear the Democrats lack the balls to do anything radical. It's so hard to stop myself from getting drawn into pointless arguing on Twitter with dickheads who's minds will never be changed, but it's difficult to allow their utter bollocks to go unchallenged.
I was glad to see many states making it clear they will provide refuge and care for people in need, and how lovely to see a Dick doing something good!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm not sure what dems can do at this point, other than to hammer home to voters that this is the republicans' doing. because a majority of americans supported roe, and that includes republicans who vote. majority-dem state houses and dem governors can pass state laws protecting abortion and abortion providers. (the governor of mass, who's actually a republican - we're a true blue state and somehow we manage to elect republican governors a lot - signed an executive order protecting both people who come to mass for abortions and the medical professionals who provide them from any law enforcement other anti-abortion states might try to impose.) but on the federal level? people keep saying we need to codify abortion access into actual law, but you need at least 67 senators and right now dems only have 50 (technically 48, but there are two independents who vote with the dems) and there's zero chance enough republicans will vote for it