I just can't believe there's a possibility that the US might join the likes of other countries with illegal abortion - countries that are either extremely religious or extremely oppressive, or both. We are the United Fucking States, dammit!
Silly mery, freedom from persecution is just for WASPs.
I love living in the unpatriotic and who-gives-a-shit-about-family-values State of New York.
This is scary. I'm going to send this to my H who is GOP but pro-choice and refuses to believe that Roe will ever be overturned.
This is precisely why RvW is hanging by a thread right now. People, mostly young ones who were not alive pre-RvW, refuse to believe that it can be overturned. Zealots are a sneaky and persistent bunch who use our complacency as cover while they push their own agenda onto everyone else.
I love living in the unpatriotic and who-gives-a-shit-about-family-values State of New York.
This is scary. I'm going to send this to my H who is GOP but pro-choice and refuses to believe that Roe will ever be overturned.
This is precisely why RvW is hanging by a thread right now. People, mostly young ones who were not alive pre-RvW, refuse to believe that it can be overturned. Zealots are a sneaky and persistent bunch who use our complacency as cover while they push their own agenda onto everyone else.
I agree.
There was a Colorado college student being interviewed on NPR last week. She was campaigning for Mitt Romney, supporting him out of her concerns for the economy. When questioned about womens rights, she touted her status as prochoice and a womens studies minor, but did not believe that RvW was in danger.
One one hand I see the future of the Republican Party with her and that's good...someone bright and dedicated to fiscal prudence. But, I feel like the R Party isn't there yet and so there's a who generation that may get screwed as these extreme social laws are put on the books.
Ugh, stories like this make me sick to my stomach, especially when coupled with reports that Romney and Obama are basically neck and neck right now. +o(
I'm "safe" for myself given my Washington residence, and being an affluent white woman just hours from the Canadian border, but FFS, this is just so not OK. :-(