Moira Donegan, writing in The Guardian, describes the fear and chaos that Florida's new abortion ban has brought to countless women in the state:
"By now the images are familiar. Similar scenes unfolded across many states in June of 2022, when doctors and nurses rushed to provide as much care as they could before the US supreme court issued its long-awaited Dobbs ruling, striking down the abortion right nationwide and rendering abortion immediately illegal in states with so-called trigger bans. Then the scenes played out again as ban after ban went into effect, either timed by statute or imposed by courts, removing women’s rights in one state after another.
The bans spread like an infection, creeping across the country irregularly, with access flickering in and out in the months that followed. But every new imposed law meant thousands of human catastrophes. Women sat in crowded waiting rooms, waiting to hear whether their lives and their bodies were still under their control, and state by state they learned, from clinic staff reading the news, from locked doors and apologies, or from the rushed translations of their fellow patients sitting beside them in vinyl chairs – that they weren’t.
What played out in Florida this past week was part of the anti-choice movement’s new sadistic regime for a post-Roe America: the display of lives being curtailed, of dignity being withdrawn, of health being imperiled. It is a public and deliberately humiliating spectacle for American women: one of freedom being taken away." (our emphasis)
Never forget that the Malignant Loser / Al Caporn set this disaster in motion when he appointed three Supreme Court justices who passed the litmus test of being anti-choice, committed to taking Roe v. Wade down and replacing it with a state-by-state free for all. Far right state governments like those in Florida, Texas, and Indiana jumped at the chance to deny women the right to make their own reproductive choices. The Malignant Loser's party has been learning in referendums ever since Roe was struck down that Americans are opposed to their denial of reproductive choice. Despite that, the Malignant Loser strongly defends his reactionary anti-choice policies, bragging that he was responsible for eliminating Roe, and with it the Constitutional right for a woman to control her body.
(photo: Evelyn Hockstein/ Reuters)
