Bye bye Roe v Wade

Republicans are trying to stem the outrage by talk of “murdering babies.” This is deliberate, but women know better. In November talk will be about inflation and high gas prices.

No one likes inflation, and we are all concerned about high energy prices. Several points to consider:

Inflation is happening worldwide. It will eventually pass.
Republicans have no plan to deal with inflation, just like they had no plan to deal with healthcare.
There is a very good chance that this SC will indeed go after contraception and gay marriage. Thomas gave the game away when he invited those lawsuits-and he put it in writing.

I’m so sick of the Pollyanna pro-life advocates saying that people want abortion on demand u tik birth. That is not what is happening. Also, they act like NOW states will increase their resources to help women and children in need. A woman this morning (from a group that apparently has no online presence) said that “you don’t ask a fireman to put out a fire before it started.” Uh…those stated aren’t taking care of their women and children now. How are they going to increase that? Ugh. I am so pissed off.

I am having a hard time understanding how those that support overturning Roe v Wade because it restores the freedom to choose back to the States where it should reside feel that is a valid argument?  That, IMO, is the biggest crock of crap.  

Freedom to choose means that each individual person gets to choose for themselves not depending on what state they live in. I guarantee no state has 100% agreement on this issue. What difference does moving it to the state level make?    None.  If you do not want an abortion do not get one.  It is pretty cut and dry.

ETA - and I can point those that support this to a few countries ( hell, any country) where people could focus all of their every life is important and deserves to be saved energy on millions of actual breathing, living children that need saving…instead of only to a fetus that has the potential of becoming a child…and still not save them all. 

I can’t wait for Gloria Allred to take on the first case for child support for a clump of cells in one of these backward hillbilly states.

They are volunteers and I am not. I am a paid employee. They are not talking directly to me but having their own conversation. I will not butt in. 

I agree with this 100%. Some of those kids from Uvalde had to be identified with DNA. I’m sorry but the current SCOTUS majority really needs a wake up call as to what their horrible decisions will do to this country going forward.

I keep thinking something like this too. If they are going to force women to have babies they don’t want, then goddamnit the men/boys who got them that way ought to have a big stake in this thing too and should have to face the music too.

I am so freaking sick of the fact that ALL of the responsibility ultimately lands on the women and girls to make damn sure they don’t end up pregnant, in spite of the fact that there are so many asshole loser Brocks out there who feel it is their god given right to do whatever they want to any woman they see, and then they still end up getting away with nothing more than a slap on the wrist after the fact because after all, they’re “just boys being boys” ya know. We need to start nailing these fuckers to the wall.

Thankfully my family lives in a blue state (blue for now, the anti-choice crowd is doing all they can to take over our state legislature in November so they can pass some anti-choice laws here too), but even so all of this leaves me honestly wondering what I can do to help protect my 12 year old daughter. She is going to finish growing up in a country where she will have fewer rights and less bodily autonomy than I had at her age. Do I seriously have to think about putting my 12 year old on birth control on the off chance that she might someday be randomly date raped or assaulted by some entitled asshole and wind up pregnant? No woman can “plan” for that situation.

  My DH had a vasectomy at 26. I know several other former/retired military who did the same. I’ve always wondered if the squeamish men even understand how easy and not invasive the procedure is. Not judging, we all have our medical hang ups  
 
 

I know it was their plan for a LOT of years, and it's been a lot of years in the making-- but man, our slide back to the 1950s seems to be really steep / quick, now that it's actually happening.  

men who won't get a vasectomy instead of having their wives have major surgery are pussies.

it is such a minor procedure and they will be good as new in a couple days.

There is a team in our conference that does this. Last year when we played at their field, as soon as the game ended the coach called our team over. Everyone got into a huddle/circle in the middle of the field. I asked DS what they were saying and he said the other teams coach was praying. The next time we played them our coach told our kids to huddle on their own, not with the prayer.

I cannot find the answer to this. Does the school district have to give this religious zealot his job back? I have looked in several articles and can’t find anything. The man did say that he would love to have his job back. But surely he has been replaced after 2 years.