To be totally gutted for American women?

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The US Supreme Court has reversed the Roe v Wade ruling. Millions of American women have lost their right to make decisions about what happens to their own bodies.

I have never had an abortion and personally, I'm not sure if I ever could, but I have always been passionately of the view that individual women should be able to make that choice for themselves. It's awful that this right has been removed for so many.

Why did you outwardly support? Cowardly arent you?. Your friends deserve to know what a sanctimonious two faced misogynist you are.

Fucking Trump.
He couldn't give a toss about abortion but he stuffed the Supreme Court with conservatives to suit his own interests

The current shower in government are currently trying to extricate the country from the EHRC and to bring in some half-baked Bill of Rights instead. I was thinking that I wouldn't be surprised if some of the head-banger factions in the Tory party (they're not in short supply these days) attempted to bring the death penalty back to the UK given the chance.

I wouldn't get too complacent about women's rights in the UK.

‘Absolutely raging on behalf of women in America’

Rage on behalf of American women but don’t think it can’t happen here. Maybe not as extreme but more limits at least. With the economic meltdown about your kick off, even though this was caused by right wing populists, there are people who believe the solution is to vote for even further right wingers.

Tg we have separation of judiciary and state at least

it’s hard to watch how impacted the judiciary is

And fuck all the women who will suffer and die as a result if this, right?

Stop scaremongering. Westminster and Holyrood have just just ruled on keeping telemedication for abortion.

I understand all that you have written but you are still missing the point. You have no sex based rights if there is no legal recognition of your sex. You cannot argue that an abortion ban discriminates against women whilst erasing the relevance of sex in pregnancy by referring to pregnant people. I absolutely agree this will disproportionately affect women of colour rather than people of colour. I think the left have played into the rights hands on this issue.

America is heading down a very dangerous path. I'm worried for the women who can't access safe abortions and all the women of reproductive age who have now had their bodily autonomy removed.

Looking at all the news stories, I think what has shocked me most is how many women I can see enthusiastically cheering for their oppression.

Depressing, isn't it?

It’s horrible. Feel quite sick about it. I am against late term abortions unless it’s detrimental to the health of the mother - it’s not always black or white but I’m pro-choice when it comes to your body. Just like the covid vaccination.

From the country that still allows child marriage in some states. Shameful.

How quickly women's rights can be removed. Dreadful.

Lots of American women online (who don't want children at the moment) planning tubal ligation. They think access to contraception might be next.

I don't blame them...

Yesterday, we were diminished to “womb carriers”. Today, one of the so called developed countries of this world makes abortion illegal. I am so sick of this backwards world and it’s treatment of women.

It amazes me women can support the loss of womens rights.

These are the same people who point at the Middle East and talk about their draconian anti women laws. These are the same people who argue passionately to preserve their right to bare arms even when those guns are used to take the life of children. If I was in that country I would immediately stop having sex, even if I was married, there are literally no failsafe contraception methods other than abstinence. And that is exactly what those women should do, abstain.
How many women are going to die having backstreet abortions? How many babies are going to go for adoption? If their not careful American people are going to end up in a situation like Romania.
And, as an afterthought, I have just heard some woman over there on the radio 'yay! It's about time, the right to life should be from the moment of conception!' Yeh, tell that to the parents of the children who were murdered at school.

The Handmaid's Tale is on its way to becoming a reality ... devastating news

What PP have said, that it could happen here in the UK is so true.

Our political viewpoints on certain issues are now markers for others to judge us by. It’s no longer good enough to be polite and a law abiding citizen. Your value is based on your politics.

Voting in my first election yonks ago, I was astounded that my parents didn’t tell me who they voted for. I was open and told them in my excitement. I just couldn’t understand. Because they were from a generation where a vote is something sacred. Now I knew their politics, we discussed it every night with the news. But they were protecting themselves and OTHERS from judgement. They were facilitating a civil society. That attitude now seems lost.

People are now expected to not only have a viewpoint on certain issues but fall clearly on one side or the other. These are ordinary people who may not care much about the particular issue but will nonetheless are now forced to have one.

*Brexit
*Immigration
*Scottish Independence
*Trans rights/ Women’s rights

And I fear abortion will now be added to this list.

I think this will lead to a long period of Democrat rule as a lot of people who vote Republican on fiscal grounds will be horrified by this.

I am absolutely devastated for women who are having their rights eroded. Abortion is controversial for some, yes. But it is a CHOICE and if someone chooses to abort, for whatever reason, they should not be vilified for it.

I had an abortion at 20 due to contraceptive failure. I was emotionally and financially unstable at the time. I went to the GP and told them I could not go through the pregnancy. I was encouraged to keep the child and claim benefits or consider adoption. Neither option was suitable for me at the time so I chose to abort. I have never regretted that decision. I found work, a career and got my life together. Went on to marry and have two children. I’m not sure where my life would be now if I had chosen to continue the pregnancy but I don’t think I would be where I am now.

The Democrats have allowed this to happen by letting identity politics dominate the left. The Left is hopelessly lost, and neither cares about women's rights (men in dresses more precious) or the welfare of children (let them get that double mastectomy). Left and Right are lost. But the Right will ensure the USA becomes a theocracy. It has the guns, after all.

The Republicans have anticipated this and have been beavering away gerrymandering districts and installing conservative judges and electoral officials in order to ensure minority rule.

Yes. Some of us have feared this for years. Look at how aggressive Britain is becoming, as both the government promote aggressive exploitation of others, and popular culture forces American gangsta aggression down the throats of males. All result in males being told to seek status by jumping on top of and being aggressive to those perceived as weaker, who are at the same time made to become weaker by removal of rights.

Women and girls in Britain need to be very aware that this could happen here, and probably will as Britain always follows Americas lead like an obedient little lapdog.

It’s disgusting, frightening and like something of another era long ago. I won’t be travelling to the US again until this decision has been reversed. Totally agree that this is about patriarchal control and politics, not about the rights of babies and children.