Or once in while, on a slow news day, some of the press covering the actions of a simple tour group on January 6th.
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That was my impression as well. There are too many adverse consequences of the Texas law to put on a single short post.
It will devastate women and the men in their lives as well.
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I’ll be damned. That is some fine writing there.
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No, it isn’t the law of the land, but it will soon become the law of much of the land. For poor women living in some of these states, it might as well be the law of the land. It is almost impossible to raise the fearmonger level enough. Women and young girls will die horrible deaths because of what SCOTUS has done, and that should terrify every last one of us.
I doubt any of them thought the law would be allowed to go into effect. I think that’s been the plan all along. Pass the most odious abortion bills that they think won’t hold up in court, the bill gets killed by the courts, and then go back to the base and holler-cry about activist judges and states rights. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. McConnell probably thought the new SCOTUS judges were in on the scheme, that they wouldn’t actually let the dog catch the car. McConnell thought wrong.
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So once again the AP forget that we’re still in a GFP. That supply chains are still stretched. That the Delta variant is just now making its presence felt in the places that we offshored our manufacturing,
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So, Texas maternal death rate is pretty average. But, OMG - Texas babies die off like nobody’s business. Sure does tell me Texans like their unborn in a uterus, but not their children. Is it something about women being pregnant and barefoot?
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More like Grande Guignol.
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Hype-a-long Cassidy
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Also from the same people that vehemently oppose government funded child care.
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I don’t think he chose poorly, I think he reveled to the women of the US just what he and his fellow members of the GOP think of woman, and their reproductive organs.
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I wonder if this is what Susan Collins thought too when she gave her big speech defending her vote for Kavanaugh and continued to insist that abortion rights were safe. She “naively” thought that the Court understood the game and wouldn’t do anything to make her look so foolish for entertaining the mendacity.
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Evidence lacking that she “thought”. Or thinks.
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Yeah…the Texas law is U.N.level rat-fuckery by–of all people–our fellow citizens still beholden to the fascist Republican Party.
Practically speaking, when American women–indeed, people–assess this law in its entirety, we will be talking about it in perpetuity.
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I’d put Hobby Lobby up there with Citizens United. It was the foothold Alito and the “conservative” majority needed to craft religious exemptions to secular, generally applicable laws.
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Mondays are my trash pickup days. I always tip my garbage guy $20 today (Labor Day), because he has to work. When I lived in Wisconsin, there was a tradition to leave a case of Miller out for the garbagemen at Christmas. Put a ribbon or bow on it so it wouldn’t get trashed. We all had to stop, because they were always drinking on the job. Wisconsin seems to believe in creating and promoting alcoholism.
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Women keep saying that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be legal everywhere. Well, men have vital interests in privacy, too. Get them to realize that those are at stake, and we change the game.
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He cemented himself to the majority of the American people (abortion is supported by most of us) as an idiot.
That’s the “poorly” part.
But you are spot on.
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Or as McConnell said, “One of my proudest moments was when I told Obama, ‘You will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.’”
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This is a great thread on the so-called technical ruling.
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It’s going to be hard to come with a topper for that.
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