Breaking: claims that the American Supreme Court will strike down Roe v. Wade

It just goes to show that the right and the left are both trying to remove women's rights in different ways. If women can't be named, then we lose our ability to protect our rights.

I find it difficult to believe the outrage over this from people who dehumanise women to the extent of calling them 'birthing bodies'. I think it's pure politics. They don't really care about women, clearly.

No idea why that all came out in bold italics.

"Many women (including me, probably) might change aspects of their sexual behaviour if they knew safe abortion wasn’t an option."

That isn't helpful for women who have been raped/coerced/have no access to or failure of contraception, or have an ectopic pregnancy.

Women are always last on everyone's list of priorities, for sure.

Seconded.

Yes this is my hope too. I also hope (although sadly I think this is less likely) that the fight will bring more women together across the political divides. Because if there's one take-out for me from the last few years, it's that neither the left nor the right can be trusted with women's rights.

Already getting voices on Twitter shouting at women for not reframing this to talk about it in an inclusive way.
I refers them back to my previous "Get to Fuck, you wanker".

That would also apply to the Roe vs Wade decision. It sounds like this decision is saying abortion should be subject to democratic decision making rather than the undemocratic courts? The problem then is the bipartisan nature of American politics.

Unbelievable. I am Asian and have a niece in Texas, who appear to have less rights than in our country of origin.

Many women (including me, probably) might change aspects of their sexual behaviour if they knew safe abortion wasn’t an option.

But you shouldn’t have to. Your sexual behaviour should be something of your free will, as should be the right to body autonomy in regard of pregnancy.

This sets women’s rights back decades.

If you can't name women, you can't protect them, you blithering fucking idiots.

Shocking news. Wake up, American women!

Yup. This is all utterly horrifying.

All of this!!!!!

Im so bloody angry that so many supposedly educated women in ACLU and planned parenthood have devoted so much time to male women and huffed that any woman pointing out that feminism wasn’t done yet that they had “cis privilege” & TW were more oppressed, we’ll slow fucking hand clap ladies, well fucking done

Which behaviours should a dirt-poor 12 year old in Alabama make to prevent her being impregnated by her rapist step-father?

Yep

Ok a quick Google tells me 400k women raped in 2019.
That's a lot of additional babies into the care system.

How will changing behaviour prevent one being raped?
I dont know the stats in the USA but if its similar to the UK, that's a large amount of women potentially giving birth to unwanted babies.
What happens to the babies?

And people think feminism is "done" and we should be focussing on the poor oppressed transwomen.

What exactly is the issue with Trump, for you?

Feminism needs to get its act together. If people want to blame white women I America for everything, women are going to lose out,

Think about whom this benefits (the egregious striking down and the wedge issue of using intersectionalism to weaken feminism) and why.

A plague on both their fucking houses. I am done with the birthing body shit from people supposed to be standing up for women. Go fuck yourselves.

The left has been happy to dangle women's rights over us, to say our rights are contingent upon not pissing them off. They don't want us to have rights, they want us grateful. They're the man who's secretly happy the world is so dangerous for women because we'll need their offer to walk us home, the man who's happy his wife earns less because she can't leave him.

Liberal feminists have have been cheerleaders for our rights dripping away because they worshipped the men who were doing it. Now the men they don't like are attacking us they think it's our fault. This is what happens when you invest your time in telling women we are privileged, that we have no common cause, that our rights are done (so we are stuck-up cis bitches if we don't move on to campaigning for everyone else). Perhaps all that time spent arguing for men to have smear tests and for leaflets to say 'pregnant people' could have been spent making actual women's rights secure.

There are elections in Nov and the Telegraph are reporting that this decision could damage the Republicans as up to70% of Americans polled opposed overturning Roe v Wade

1 in 5 women have been raped or sexually assaulted, and 1 in 20 rapes result in pregnancy. Around half of all rape victims are under 18.

Abortion is an absolutely life saving service for these women. Without it they are at risk of death through unsafe backstreet abortion or suicide.

Abortion isn't some "luxury choice" it's a crucial need for women at their mist vulnerable.

We can only hope this will be one of the catalyst moments which galvanise enough people to create real political pressure.