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.

Women rise up, organise, use their vote, become a real threat to this political nightmare....?

Yes. That is a feasible proposition. Fgs this is not a drill.

Some states won't be happy until they recreate The Handmaid's Tale!

A shocking decision, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when I got the news flash on my
mobile. I think this has already happened in Poland as well…

Seeing the news this afternoon has made my blood boil, for so many reasons others here have already stated.

How this has been decided as 'progress' is completely beyond me.

Shocking and sickening news.

The more newly elected justices were all asked about Roe when they were being interviewed for the position and all said it stood as law, so what has changed since they were appointed? Did they lie under oath?

I'm sure they'll claim they've since been "persuaded by the arguments"

I seen that too, it’s chilling

My mum and cousin both had to have emergency D&C's to save their lives. Without them they'd be dead.
This is sickening.

My sister is having friends round to celebrate. She is delighted with the decision.

OMG I'm disgusted at this. Making it worse the positions on the supreme court are for life, so it will be any years before anyone will have a chance to reinstate Roe V Wade.
It's heading back to the 60's and early 70's when my MIL remembers babies were advertised in the San Francisco chronicle for private adoption like selling some worn once shoes.

This is just unbelievable. How is it that they are moving backwards??? I can't imagine that poor woman who will have that right taken away from her.

Your sister is a cunt.

Appalling! What a backward step ☹️ I was one of those woman who said I could never have an abortion until I found myself pregnant at 40. With 2 babies and a severely disabled toddler I knew I couldn’t/didn’t want to cope with another child and had an abortion.

The US thinks it's banned abortion. It hasn't.

It's banned safe legal abortion.
Dangerous illegal abortions will still be attempted and women will die.

The United States of America doesn't have a centralized government.

The Supreme Court of the U.S. interprets the U.S. Constitution and made the decision that the right to abortion is not in the U.S. Constitution, so the right to get an abortion goes back to the people of the 50 States.

The individual state's voters will decide if they want their state to offer abortions.
You can still get abortions in many parts of the U.S. and that will remain so.

I'm horrified. Men (and sadly some women) continue to assert their opinions as more important than a woman's autonomy.

My mother is happy too- phoning around like minded friends to share the good news.

It's totally horrendous.
However this is the Supreme Court's opinion on what to do, stated when the draft was leaked,

medium.com/some-news/supreme-court-reminds-women-they-can-always-leave-babies-on-someones-doorstep-31a85f601848

It's like some awful joke

I think the point was that some women took their eye of the ball long enough for such crap to go through!

And there will be no concerted male uprising in support of those self same women.

Your sister doesn't have to have an abortion. That is her right.

She shouldn't be celebrating other women losing their rights

From Bill Weir on Twitter, about the states where abortion is now immediately illegal or will be within the next 30 days:

Abortion banned without exception for health of the mother:
Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota

Without exceptions for rape:
Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas

Without exceptions for incest:
Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas

These people don't care if you will die giving birth, they don't care if you're 13 and raped by your father. Fucking fascists.

Why have things moved backwards? Because the kind of men who are in power hate and fear women, and forcing women to give birth is a good way of 'putting them in their place'. Of course, no one's suggesting the fathers of those un-planned-for babies have to now step up more than previously.

Notice how the far right uses trans as a wedge issue to encourage women to ignore the bullshit anti women agenda. They tell women to look at a minority of outlier crazies on Twitter screaming about pronouns whilst those with actual power dismantle our rights. Look at the pitiful number of rape convictions for Christ’s sake.

Wake up!

They can always leave babies on people’s doorsteps?

I wonder who would own the houses belonging to those doorsteps…

I'd have a hard time remaining civil with such a sibling.

This, with bells on.