QOTD -- Horror Show

 

"... Everything we worried about, every worst-case scenario, is happening right before our eyes. But perhaps the worst part of this post-Roe political landscape is that the antiabortion right hasn’t been satiated and appears emboldened despite a string of electoral defeats in 2022 and 2023, including in red states. Now Republicans are trying desperately to keep abortion off the ballot in 2024 because they know it’s a losing issue for them. As Politico reported Monday, 'in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, and other states, several antiabortion groups are buying TV and digital ads, knocking on doors and holding events to persuade people against signing petitions to put the issue before voters in November.'

"Republicans long argued that abortion should be left to the states. But since the conservative majority struck down Roe, effectively doing just that, you have Republicans not only looking to prevent states from voting on abortion rights, but also calling for a federal abortion ban. Even scarier, Republicans are even trying to ban abortion pills using the Comstock Act, a 1873 federal law. 'The next Republican president,' Axios notes, 'could stop most abortions without Congress.' Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is taking up an abortion pills case, setting up, according to the Times, a 'high-stakes fight over the drug that could sharply curtail access to the medication, even in states where abortion remains legal.'

"For years I was told I was being a Cassandra about the danger to women of a post-Roe America but if anything, the reality is even bleaker than I imagined." -- Molly Jong-Fast, concluding an article in Vanity Fair, "Overturning Roe Has Been A Horror Show."  Forced birthers, led in the Republican Catholic Supreme Court by the execrable Sam Alito, have brought this horror show to America.  Election- by- election, we must exercise the same patience and resolve as the forced birthers until we return the legislatures and the courts, especially the Republican Supreme Court, to institutions that value the Constitutional rights of women to control their reproductive freedom.