Post Roe v. Wade: Our Future if GOP Wins Congressional Midterms = “Sustained Dark Revenge”

 

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Post Roe v. Wade decision highlights from ABC News with this headline:

“How the country has changed since Roe was overturned 30 days ago”

In the 30 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the abortion landscape in the United States has dramatically changed.

A handful of states have signed EO's and directives strengthening access to abortion and protecting those who seek or perform them.

Patient care has changed: Abortion providers in states where access is still available are seeing more out-of-state patients than ever before, while OB-GYNs told ABC News more women are requesting sterilization over concerns their current methods of birth control will fail and they won't be able to get an abortion.

More states with abortion bans (source the Guttmacher Institute): Since Roe overturned 13 states have ended nearly all abortion services, and that has led to a patchwork of abortion laws.

Completely banned them with few restrictions: AL; AR; MS; MO; OK; SD; and TX.

Have enforced six-week bans: GA; OH; SC; and TN.

Fifteen-week ban: FL.

Have bans, but blocked by courts for hearings: KY; LA; and UT.

Have bans on books but never repealed or unenforced: MI and WV. Both have court injunctions against them. MI Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) vows to protect the right. 

Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, who specializes in the legal history of reproduction, told ABC News she believes: “This is just the beginning and more states will pass laws banning abortion in the coming months and years.”

She further stated that lawmakers wrote several of these abortion laws under the assumption they would not be legally allowed to actually go into effect. Now that Roe is overturned, some states want to make them even more stringent.

My 2 Cents: Overturning Roe v. Wade clearly shows the patience of the political power that Republican Christian conservatives have over GOP-run states legislators and many right-leaning courts.

That is more nowadays in this deeply divided disconnected Congress and seemingly far right USSC. All that is very troubling for many reasons and on many levels.

For example, Roe v. Wade is gone. So, what other of our individual rights is next for their chopping block? 

We see our voting rights under GOP pressure, too. 

Needed climate control policies are out of the question or so it seems. 

The list is long and conservatives are literally hell bent to get what they want and not the things the majority of the public wants and has had for decades. 

What happened to majority views and opinions? They won’t matter or be effective unless we turn out in mass at the ballot box to vote and keep them in tact. 

Even then, however, we must face the “who controls that count – who controls the outcome movement.”

All that follows the Trump era 2020 “Big Lie” that I posted about here and here.

Finally, everyone concerned who wants to help in this upcoming midterm cycle has to work to get out the vote and help try and stop what many say is an oncoming GOP midterms onslaught and then their revenge that will surely follow if they get control. That must never happen.

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