Roe v Wade overturned

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Fucking devastating.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-61709865

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Much easier to show concern about a concept that an actual living breathing person.

You can’t possibly think that post by Posie Parker is good or hopeful. Abortion access affects far more women and girls. That post shows that there are many using a so-called women’s rights agenda to promote a radical right wing agenda. The same people parading around yelling “what is a woman” gleefully are celebrating stripping our fundamental bodily rights. Come on. She’s free to say and believe what she wants and has been clear she’s not a feminist, but you cannot possibly think that post is a reasonable take on women’s rights or that Trans issues trump all other social issues for women. How disturbing.

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America: where you can't organise your family planning but you're unreasonable to ask people not to shoot your kids in school.

Oh my fucking god. Shame on them. Absolute burning shame. How dare they do this to women and girls. As if they hadn’t whittled services down to the barest minimum anyway through years of harassment of abortion providers. It’s devastating for women.

It was a legal decision made by a court who are all political appointees - so it was a pretty political decision to my eyes (as an English lawyer).

The Guardian recently ran an article featuring women in the US who had sought illegal abortions pre- Roe v Wade. It said the number one cause of death of black American women in the 1960s was from unsafe abortions. I had to read it twice as it was so unimaginably horrifying.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/16/five-women-on-abortions-before-roe-v-wade?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This

The argument that US is a federated country and this is about giving states the authority to pass their own laws doesn't hold water.

India too has a semi federated state system and has legalised abortion for the last 50 years and in fact made it safer and more accessible last year. If a conservative developing Asian country can care about women's health, there is NO EXCUSE why this has happened in the USA. Disgraceful.

www.who.int/india/news/detail/13-04-2021-india-s-amended-law-makes-abortion-safer-and-more-accessible

Missouri has already issued its ban

Todays decision has made abortion immediately illegal in 13 states, with another 13 highly likely to follow in the next fortnight. So it will be banned in well over half the country.

When you divide the left, you get the right.

I've just offered my US niece and her three teenage daughters an any-time welcome, no questions asked.

I never imagined it would be necessary.☹️

Thank you

The bbc had a very interesting map of states hostile to abortion, given how huge the US is, it will make travelling to a state which does offer abortion nigh on impossible for a lot of women.

Bastards, the lot of them.

Obviously there will be tons of comment and analysis and organising against this but I recommend the Center for Reproductive Rights reproductiverights.org/ (with a free newsletter you can sign up to) as a way of keeping track of some of the campaigning in the US and links to donate etc.

I've noticed this in recent months and seen women talking quite complacently about our abortion rights in the UK. It's unbelievably naïve.
Some UK based interview format or news/opinion YouTube channels have hosted anti choice campaigners in recent months. A debate we didn't ask for is definitely starting here.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone wishing to restrict a woman's right to safe legal abortion. I am pro choice not pro abortion which means I think it would be as disgusting to force a woman to have an abortion as it is to deny her access to one.

Jesus christ.

Elizabeth Warren has just released a video. It's all "pregnant people ". For. Fuck's. Sake. It's WOMEN. Fucking say it. If you are too scared to say it you are too weak to fight. So fuck off with this "we have to stick together " bullshit as a way of shutting women down. Two sides of the same fucking coin.

So fucking backwards.

Yes!

I completely agree.

Forcing anyone to give birth by removing the option of abortion is a violation of consent and bodily autonomy.

This is a means of subjugating women.

If you think women don’t deserve their own word, why are you the person to protect their right to safe and legal abortion?