Justice Clarence Thomas, part of the majority to overturn Roe v. Wade, also called on the high court to overturn other rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives. https://t.co/1n58HurYRI
“I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans"https://t.co/TA2vTQnXRB
President Biden lays out actions his administration will take in an effort to ease access to abortion after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/YN9SmjJ1iqpic.twitter.com/lyiQ6PZWxn
GOP Sen. Susan Collins says the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is a "radical jolt" to the nation, adding the ruling is inconsistent with Kavanaugh and Gorsuch's testimony during the confirmation process. https://t.co/9LPjU2UDR8pic.twitter.com/WIXLlx9d1p
Senator Mitch McConnell spoke on the ruling to overturn Roe. v Wade on Friday. He arguably shaped the Supreme Court that handed down this decision. https://t.co/wfhjVjv8FNpic.twitter.com/lebRo8apsW
I have always been strongly pro-life. Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court returns power to the states and the people of the states to address the issue of abortion under state law.
One of Sinema's big arguments in favor of keeping the filibuster is a fear that, if and when Republicans retake the Senate, they will try to pass a federal abortion ban https://t.co/uriff37vkR
... and includes a tool that allows you to construct your own scenarios, since the future of many state's laws is still uncertain. pic.twitter.com/s2GBnmRmQf
Many states have passed laws that explicitly protect the right to abortion, with several adding those protections this year in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision. https://t.co/8GDK9nIKEgpic.twitter.com/V0nw1diM5Q
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 24, 2022
At least 150 Democratic lawmakers march to the Supreme Court to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
"They did it in utter disregard for the 60% of the American people who support Roe and did not want it overturned," Rep. Butterfield says. https://t.co/MuzByanxEx
Donald Trump is the man most responsible for shaping the Supreme Court that delivered the conservative movement a victory in overturning Roe v. Wade. But privately, he has told people repeatedly that he believes the decision will be “bad for Republicans.” https://t.co/Ph5GcjIXJr
Where can I buy Plan B? Here’s what you need to know about the morning-after pill and the future of emergency contraception following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/jXwl6UbIkb
Companies committing to cover travel expenses for abortions, or out-of-state health care:
Amazon
Amex
Apple
BofA
Biogen
Cigna
Citigroup
Deutsche Bank
Dick's
Disney
Goldman
Gucci
JPM
Kroger
Levi's
Mastercard
Meta
Microsoft
Netflix
Nike
PayPal
Sbucks
T-Mobile
Tesla@business
Founding era history strongly supports the view that abortion rights, at least during the early stages of pregnancy, do fall within the original understanding of James Madison’s 9th Amendment. https://t.co/5lgQ1eEZta
Results will be, in the current climate, there's going to be even more single mothers?
We’ll start with something spicy: sex. Listening yet?
The 2021 General Social Survey found that 55% of Americans 25-54 had sex LESS than one time a week over the past year. (That’s a record since that question was first asked in 1989.)
Does that seem odd to you?
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) June 16, 2022
Now...partnership. That survey also found 30% of adults 25-54 do NOT have a steady partner — up from 20% in 1986.
On top of that, more people are delaying marriage than before...and fewer people are getting married overall.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) June 16, 2022
After Texas enacted its recent abortion law, the number of vasectomies seemed to go up. One provider said he saw a 15% increase. https://t.co/CJhfoyqJ3Q.
How to make the 2022 elections a referendum on Roe, by @joshtpm. This June 6 column is far more essential now. The link should work for everyone, subscriber or not. https://t.co/uDcft4jaw6
I mean the obvious answer is that Hillary Clinton should have adopted more moderate positions on issues in 2016, allowing her to win slightly more votes and become president.
Since 2012, Democrats have adopted more progressive positions on a very wide range of issues.
The goal, I assume, was to enact more progressive policies. But the actual result has been to contribute to the opposite happening. https://t.co/VOVtMueX7M
But one function of Roe, traditionally, was to block Republicans from overreaching.
Now they certainly will in some states and likely will on a national level as well — there’s a huge opportunity to re-seize the political high ground.https://t.co/fyGDtdMs4g
The idea that perceptions of Democrats are 100% of the product of Fox News and totally unrelated to the actions and positions of Democratic Party politicians seems obviously wrong to me, and I don’t even think the people who say it on here believe it. https://t.co/zwOIRYJocn
If you are surprised that the Supreme Court could just eliminate abortion rights just like that, you shouldn't be. Here I was @tpm in 2015, explaining the stakes of the 2016 election for the Court and our rights. https://t.co/DV6rCIAIigpic.twitter.com/IwiQViwhGH
And it won't end with overturning Roe and allowing guns outside the home. There's a lot more on the chopping block coming in terms of voting rights, LGBTQ rights, environmental protection, immigration, and more.
Decades of work by the conservative legal movement is paying off.
The deck is obviously stacked against progress in many ways, but there’s a straight line from voters giving Republicans total control in 2016 to a Trump-packed SCOTUS overturning Roe today. Elections have consequences. Voting matters.
AIR FORCE ONE (@CNN) — Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden **does not** agree with calls to expand SCOTUS, or eliminate the filibuster, throwing cold water on steps some liberal Democrats have called for in the wake of Dobbs.
“Today, the Court … says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs. 1/
With respect, @CapehartJ, this admission means you weren’t listening to women. Lesbians have been warning and trying to educate gay men about exactly this for MANY years. https://t.co/IQZHdHuYic
if you'd paid attention to your Catholic catechism, you wouldn't need lesbians warning you, you'd understand these people believe the main purpose of sex is procreation and get that this IS related to you as well.
ooh smart editor assigning this story! now let's hear from legal experts which Supremes perjured themselves?
The decision by five Supreme Court justices to end the constitutional right to abortion has cast a renewed spotlight on what they said about Roe v. Wade during their confirmation hearings. Here is a sampling: https://t.co/KjW3MFhbqY
Today is a very solemn moment for the United States.
The Supreme Court expressly took away a Constitutional right from the American people that it had already recognized. They simply took it away. That's never been done to a right that is so important to so many Americans.
Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
Across the country, states have already passed bills restricting choice. If you're looking for ways to respond, @PPFA, @USOWomen, and many other groups have been sounding the alarm on this issue for years—and will continue to be on the front lines of this fight. pic.twitter.com/PpXBEcbL2S
For more than a month, we’ve known this day was coming—but that doesn’t make it any less devastating. Here are my thoughts from when we first saw the draft ruling: https://t.co/aegHc7AoTm
I don't always agree with her points, but boy she sure is good at making them, like here:
The dead children who had their bodies ripped to shreds by an automatic weapon from the last mass shooting would like a word with you. https://t.co/5n4RvYdIm0
— I’m NotDevinsMom Moron (@NotDevinsMom) June 25, 2022
I've never liked the "controlling women's bodies" line.
It's much more ruining women's lives to give a free pass to irresponsible men, even while more and more acknowledging how women have lacked power through most of our history. Stanford swimmer rapes a drunk girl by a dumpster, and the judge is most worried about ruining his career. Yes, there's a budding little brat in her womb and he's gonna go dick around and get paid big bucks for being a talented asshole, and she gets to clean up his shit. Even Albert fucking Einstein threw over his wife/mother of his children for her sister, and had she complained too much she would've lost whatever stipend he deigned to give her. I'm all for drowning fetuses in ponds up to the 4th or 5th month - who gives a shit - they're basically worms or frogs up to that point, and these motherfuckers already showed they don't care about "life" by railing against masks and vaccines and other common sense modern science - just a bunch of throwback Noah's Ark level idiots who skipped evolution while the rest of the world went through the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution and Internet Age. Clarence "suck my stupidly conservative dick" Thomas doesn't even believe in access to contraception - that stupid vindictive motherfucker should've been snuffed out by week 5 to make sure his noxious ideas never breathed. But no, someone gave birth to the dickhead, and now crazed lunatic antediluvian fringe nutheads give sustenance to his whackjob takes on "jurisprudence" as if what happened in the fucking Middle Ages defines modern law (you too, Alito, you piece of shit with all the intellectual capacity of a crustacean that barely made it out of the sea - no need for cerebellum in that line of losers, just pre-reptilian brain whose judicial "opinions" read like a worse satire of Jonathan Swift, with all the lack of modernity and strange superstition that requires).
Yeah, somewhere someone actually cares about "the children", but the ones who fight better standards & support for birth & pre-natal care and insurance to pay for that "miracle of birth", for children's healthcare, for taxes to pay for good public schools, for gun laws to keep kids from shooting each other up, to keep young kids from being raped by priests and whatever predator of the week, or just the basic "Do Unto Others" morality that every fucking church i was in had until Falwell's immoral majority taught these peckerheads to be angry bitter shitshaming venemous judges of the rest of the world, always ready with their handful of first stones to sling. Jesus washed a prostitute's feet, you bunch of warmed over pagan troglodytes - you can't even get the basics out of a book written for people supposedly more primitive than you 2000 years ago. Modern society is wasted on your scheming thieving asses. May you all get the clap and AIDS from your next illicit hypocritical rendezvous.
Planned Parenthood, bete noire of the right that hates women.
Amazing to think these assholes have made *contraception* an enemy - that was just weird Catholics when i was growing up. But hey, do that Christian spiel while bullying people - seems to work wonders.
Anti-abortion activists should be concerned with other issues that can threaten life, such as easy access to guns, poverty and rising maternity mortality rates, the Vatican's editorial director said on Saturday. https://t.co/LugllJ0xA5
Off-topic thread refresher: despite all its faults, some people still want to live in the U.S. of A. real bad -
A Marine asked another Marine for help, and he asked another Marine. It took 10 months, but together they (and a group of advocates) got @lucky_navid & his family out of Afghanistan. Here’s the moment Lucky and my husband met at the airport. Our family just grew by 9! pic.twitter.com/iVIuVavKoj
Crazy fucking pro-lifer w 275k followers tells woman w 17wk unviable foetus she should've just had a miracle pro-lifer doctor deliver the barely breathing thing, and ignores that the woman's abortion doctor was killed by maniac after. These assholes are total nuts. They're not looking for sane discussion - they've got cognitive social mental problems, and are a threat to society, even if they can somehow look less mental to their followers..
Original thread well worth reading
Dr. Tiller killed your son. You didn’t need to bring him to Dr. Tiller to kill him. You could have had a pro-life doctor deliver him early—alive—& given your boy a chance at life. He might have lived. You were lied to, like so many others. I’m so sorry. Stop spreading the lie.
An umbilical cord spinning out a lifeline helplessly. He'd stopped growing. But his heart continued to beat even as his movements - frantic at first when the oxygen cut off, slowed, and he became horribly still. I hated the doctors who couldn't save him.
some are just dumb-as-an-ox partisans, it's just that simple:
NEW: Lara Trump just said on Fox News that pro-choice Americans who disagree with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade “are advocating for you to have an abortion as opposed to giving you the choice to choose whatever you want.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 26, 2022
Saw an animal shelter tweet, & got to thinking/googling: each year roughly 3 million cats & dogs are adopted, and 3 million are put to sleep, with 70 million strays on the street (cat adoption is a lot lower than for dogs). And animals are lot cheaper & easier to deal with than kids.
5 states make up half the kills - Texas, California, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia. Expect a lot of sympathy from these for unwanted babies (Georgia & NC at 10m population each are really punching above their weight for euthanizing critters)
As a litmus test, I often think “what would a super advanced country in 2200 do here?” Hard to imagine them forcing a 17-year-old knocked up by her ex-boyfriend to have a child. https://t.co/33UYNcYnzq
68% of Catholics supported Roe v. Wade. We are the majority and we won't stop fighting.
— Catholics for Choice (@Catholic4Choice) June 26, 2022
I’m a Catholic. My wife is a devoted Catholic. We may have our own personal views of what we would do if we had to make a decision. But our decision is ours and private. We will always support every woman to own the right to make HER own decision….#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
FACT:
Mexico is a mostly Catholic country but in 2021 the Mexican Supreme Court decriminalized abortion and women from Texas have been traveling to Mexico to receive abortion services for months.
— Christopher Is Pro-Choice (@cwebbonline) June 26, 2022
It isn’t easy but it has been happening because of the Texas abortion ban.https://t.co/7ESpiJrQSY
— Christopher Is Pro-Choice (@cwebbonline) June 26, 2022
A Vatican News editorial reiterated the Catholic Church’s defense of "unborn life," but emphasized that this goes beyond abortion. It said truly "being for life" meant addressing maternal mortality rates in the U.S., poverty and "the threat of firearms." https://t.co/w282zER1MF
Heat over Roe decision on Twitter is...Twitter.
~More representative is CBS/YouGov poll:
—59% disapprove/41% approve
—Disapproval: 67%, 51%
—Disapproval: 72% black, 68% Hispanic, 55% white
—More Consvs–25%–& Mods–65%–DISAPPROVE than Libs–11%–APPROVEhttps://t.co/Mh0m8g0428pic.twitter.com/bZV3kON0mp
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) June 26, 2022
2/2
Same poll: 32% want abortion "legal in all cases," 32% "legal in most cases" (= total of 64% who want it legal), while 9% want "illegal in all cases," & 27% "illegal in most cases."
Other polls show 65% want it legal in 1st trimester & 70% want it mostly illegal in 2nd tri. pic.twitter.com/kMFfCPCPNS
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) June 27, 2022
this >
Most people respond to the ruling based on policy preference. My guess is most people agree with the **outcome** of Roe. That gives Democrats some advantage -- if they go for legislative changes, not attacking SCOTUS.
The weirdest thing is the anti-choice movement saying it’s been peaceful for decades. No American political movement has been as violent and deadly as the anti-choicers.
Sadly, if the the right can hold for a few years, many of the boomers and older Gen x that remember the regular violence at clinics, and the gauntlet women in need had to go through will die away, and true history with them.
— Robert Baker-free (@RobertB41188300) June 27, 2022
also worth thinking about why the violent advocates mostly faded away. I would argue it was because the FBI ("cops") pursued them and they were prosecuted and punished
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by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 12:34pm
Manchin -
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 12:47pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 12:54pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 1:20pm
Liz Cheney:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:02pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:06pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 12:39pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 12:48pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 1:23pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 1:10pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 4:16pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 1:15pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 1:24pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 1:36pm
wow, including wholesome family brands yet,
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:59pm
Is apparently very smart branding:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 2:42am
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 8:02pm
(She's a Bloomberg correspondent, so list should be accurate)
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 9:31pm
Not that it matters, as they've made new history now, even tho they like to advertise as "originalists".
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 2:37pm
Results will be, in the current climate, there's going to be even more single mothers?
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 2:52pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:19pm
Well great, fewer responsible guys will reproduce, while irresponsible guys will continue to reproduce at the same rate.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 6:32pm
fwiw, BLM:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 2:54pm
more on the politics
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 2:58pm
more on political ramifications:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 2:59am
Trending on Twitter: "13 Justices"
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:04pm
Oh, so Republicans will stack the Court with 4 more conservatives? Brilliant!!!
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 7:51am
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 5:48pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:10pm
for the clueless gay men out there:
if you'd paid attention to your Catholic catechism, you wouldn't need lesbians warning you, you'd understand these people believe the main purpose of sex is procreation and get that this IS related to you as well.
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:33pm
ooh smart editor assigning this story! now let's hear from legal experts which Supremes perjured themselves?
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:40pm
Uncle Joe tweet:
and a reminder:he's a devout Catholic!
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:43pm
his former boss and a Constitutional scholar:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:48pm
oh geez, i can only imagine, if there was ever a case for thought crimes, can someone lock em up?
edit to add: I've heard the Taliban need a few good men, maybe consider that?
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 3:55pm
I don't always agree with her points, but boy she sure is good at making them, like here:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 8:06pm
the Gov. of California:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 9:36pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 9:41pm
55yrs of interracial marriage
(Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roe-v-wade-same-sex-interracial-marriage-...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 12:28pm
the Lt. Gen. (ret.) seems to want to go mano a mano with Clarence:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 3:19pm
I think it behooves to keep what he says here in mind:
while he might be giving too many "everyday folks" the benefit of the doubt, the amount of hyperbole I'm seeing on social media is through the roof.
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 3:28pm
I've never liked the "controlling women's bodies" line.
It's much more ruining women's lives to give a free pass to irresponsible men, even while more and more acknowledging how women have lacked power through most of our history. Stanford swimmer rapes a drunk girl by a dumpster, and the judge is most worried about ruining his career. Yes, there's a budding little brat in her womb and he's gonna go dick around and get paid big bucks for being a talented asshole, and she gets to clean up his shit. Even Albert fucking Einstein threw over his wife/mother of his children for her sister, and had she complained too much she would've lost whatever stipend he deigned to give her. I'm all for drowning fetuses in ponds up to the 4th or 5th month - who gives a shit - they're basically worms or frogs up to that point, and these motherfuckers already showed they don't care about "life" by railing against masks and vaccines and other common sense modern science - just a bunch of throwback Noah's Ark level idiots who skipped evolution while the rest of the world went through the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution and Internet Age. Clarence "suck my stupidly conservative dick" Thomas doesn't even believe in access to contraception - that stupid vindictive motherfucker should've been snuffed out by week 5 to make sure his noxious ideas never breathed. But no, someone gave birth to the dickhead, and now crazed lunatic antediluvian fringe nutheads give sustenance to his whackjob takes on "jurisprudence" as if what happened in the fucking Middle Ages defines modern law (you too, Alito, you piece of shit with all the intellectual capacity of a crustacean that barely made it out of the sea - no need for cerebellum in that line of losers, just pre-reptilian brain whose judicial "opinions" read like a worse satire of Jonathan Swift, with all the lack of modernity and strange superstition that requires).
Yeah, somewhere someone actually cares about "the children", but the ones who fight better standards & support for birth & pre-natal care and insurance to pay for that "miracle of birth", for children's healthcare, for taxes to pay for good public schools, for gun laws to keep kids from shooting each other up, to keep young kids from being raped by priests and whatever predator of the week, or just the basic "Do Unto Others" morality that every fucking church i was in had until Falwell's immoral majority taught these peckerheads to be angry bitter shitshaming venemous judges of the rest of the world, always ready with their handful of first stones to sling. Jesus washed a prostitute's feet, you bunch of warmed over pagan troglodytes - you can't even get the basics out of a book written for people supposedly more primitive than you 2000 years ago. Modern society is wasted on your scheming thieving asses. May you all get the clap and AIDS from your next illicit hypocritical rendezvous.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 4:32pm
Planned Parenthood, bete noire of the right that hates women.
Amazing to think these assholes have made *contraception* an enemy - that was just weird Catholics when i was growing up. But hey, do that Christian spiel while bullying people - seems to work wonders.
https://www.boredpanda.com/planned-parenthood-examination-girl-birth-con...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 8:32pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 9:20pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 9:34pm
Off-topic thread refresher: despite all its faults, some people still want to live in the U.S. of A. real bad -
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/25/2022 - 9:38pm
Crazy fucking pro-lifer w 275k followers tells woman w 17wk unviable foetus she should've just had a miracle pro-lifer doctor deliver the barely breathing thing, and ignores that the woman's abortion doctor was killed by maniac after. These assholes are total nuts. They're not looking for sane discussion - they've got cognitive social mental problems, and are a threat to society, even if they can somehow look less mental to their followers..
Original thread well worth reading
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 2:51am
some are just dumb-as-an-ox partisans, it's just that simple:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 6:41pm
Saw an animal shelter tweet, & got to thinking/googling: each year roughly 3 million cats & dogs are adopted, and 3 million are put to sleep, with 70 million strays on the street (cat adoption is a lot lower than for dogs). And animals are lot cheaper & easier to deal with than kids.
5 states make up half the kills - Texas, California, Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia. Expect a lot of sympathy from these for unwanted babies (Georgia & NC at 10m population each are really punching above their weight for euthanizing critters)
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/27/2022 - 5:09am
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 3:28am
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/27/2022 - 5:35am
this >
and yes, he's stereotyping incorrectly I think >
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/27/2022 - 12:42pm
^ the slogan "safe, legal and rare" wasn't made up by dummies; it's what the majority prefers
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/27/2022 - 12:41pm
the 40% approval number confirmed in another poll:
an important reminder, though: the ruling leaves it up to states to decide.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/27/2022 - 1:22pm
true:
also probably true:
also worth thinking about why the violent advocates mostly faded away. I would argue it was because the FBI ("cops") pursued them and they were prosecuted and punished
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/27/2022 - 1:08pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/27/2022 - 5:49pm