It will never fail to astonish me that anyone feels they have the right to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her own body. Whatever happened to a person's right to privacy? Hopefully at some point a woman's right to abortion will become enshrined into law nationally.
Dems need to work extraordinarily hard the next 2 elections to take control of as many State Legislatures as possible - in addition to both Chambers of Congress and the Presidency - and then give people reason to keep electing them. The rethuglicans are busy shooting at their own feet.
If the decision is allowed to stand it's going to be a bonanza for The Mob. Heck, we can't manage to stanch the flow of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine into this country! So what is the chance that we'll be able to stop getting RU 486 into states where it's banned, especially given that there are many states where it's perfectly legal and there's vast public support for keeping it that way! I'd say that the chance of stopping (even illicit) mailing is close to zero.
This will be the biggest meal ticket for organized crime since Prohibition was instituted.
I'm sure that if Don the Con got one of his mistresses pregnant, he'd have no trouble securing some of those drugs for her-- whether she wanted them or not!
Something tells me there aren't any more pregnant mistresses for Turnip; powerful and impotent are two different things. Not to mention the dubious joy for her of making out with a guy in a diaper...
There are currently programs, such as AidAccess (founded by a female gynecologist), that are and WILL provide abortion medications to countries where it's currently illegal. They will now send pills to states that ban abortions via plain-wrapped mail, and who is going to go through drugs-by-mail when so many people are getting them that way?
You may well be right-- enforcement would be difficult-- even if RU 486 were banned unconditionally. I suppose whether it's lucrative enough for Mob involvement will depend on how intrusive and effective state and federal bans are.
And since Federal (FDA) jurisdiction, from what I understand, is only for INTERstate commerce, California was talking about setting up a drug-manufacturer that only operates in-state, so there would be no Federal case-- and if Californians independently mail those pills to people elsewhere, then it's on them rather than the drug manufacturer. No idea if they'd actually do it, and whether the Feds would crack down on it, Constitution be damned.
I really think this is toothpaste out of the tube now. There are numerous feminist, physician-backed, abortion access groups, national and international that will find a way.
With early pregnancy tests being so accurate (and even available at dollar stores!) most women will be able to get medication in time. And some, such as AidAccess have a sliding scale or are free for those who can't pay.
Yes, I pledge to increase the volume of my opposition to limiting reproductive health care. And I will increase my donations to nonprofits that help women expand their healthcare options.
These religious fanatics who say a fertilized egg is exactly the same as a human being will NEVER stop until all abortion is eradicated in the US. How DARE they impose their religion on the rest of us. As Tim Walz said: “ Mind your own damn business!”
I am always amazed that politicians ( right now) can hold sway over science and medical knowledge on our health! I am sure they have no idea about the physiology of conception.
I posted a comment on another site yesterday (Friendly Atheist) that has relevance here. The antiabortion movement appeared in the 1970s as a response to Roe. It was dreamed up by conservative Christians and amounts to the implementation of their religious sensibilities into de facto law. Because of it, women have died and will continue to do so. Just wait around... Justices Thomas and Alito have both said that Griswold was improperly decided... Which could pull the right to birth control out from under women. What we actually have here is an authoritarian crisis where courts can legislate from the bench so they can lord over women and deny them their chance at 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.'
Abortion rights and the affordability issue are closely linked. The majority of women seeking abortion already have children and do not want or cannot afford additional children. In addition, red states where abortion is more difficult to obtain, legislators refuse to assist families after forcing them to have more children...no help with childcare, schooling, healthcare....the list goes on. In addition to standing up for bodily autonomy, we need to talk about this important issue!
Thank you, JWW for your piece. I thought that my state of Louisiana could not sink any lower by bringing the lawsuit that plunged the dagger into the heart of what was left of the Voting Right Act of 1965 with the help of the 6 Horsemen/Woman of the Apocalypse.
Thanks to you, I am unfortunately reminded that another atrocity is in the works with State of Louisiana v. FDA. LA AG Liz Murrill uses the ruse that mifepristone prescribed by telehealth and delivered by mail is unsafe when in reality, she doesn't like that the medication being readily accessible my mail flaunts the state's total ban on abortion/choice.
Based on its rulings of late (especially last week's Callais decision), don't be surprised if/when SCOTUS delivers yet another scathing blow to reproductive rights in this country.
"If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, is credited with those words. Own up, America ! In your stratospheric stupidity, you elected this criminal administration. NOW, OUR GENERATION, OUR CHILDREN'S GENERATION, AND THEIR CHILDREN'S GENERATION ARE DOOMED TO SUFFER THE HORRIFIC CONSEQUENCES.
If they thought they were solving the problem by overturning Roe they were not. If the Democrats are successful in November then they may be able to pack the court eventually and reject every one of the felons Supreme Court nominees, but this may not happen until 2028 or a massive impeachment occurs. Whoever argues before the court should be doing a bang up job on their fascist decision to overturn Roe.
I can imagine the clerks of the Seditious Six are hard at work during this granted stay searching and strategizing how they can limit the national use of medication abortifacients, trying to come up with something that would minimally pass the straight face test.
More evidence for the need to reform the Federal Court System. The supreme Red Court exercises “legislative power”at the top while other Federal Circuit Courts, especially the Fifth Circuit, can be pressed into serving as mini-Red Courts with their own “legislative” impact. Curiously we always see the Red Courts come down against the rights of citizens, but seldom if ever against the rights of individuals, businesses, or monopolies to make as much money as they can, any way they can. This is more fuel to the fire for the midterms: stripping away still more abortion rights, the rights of women to control their persons; insulting Catholics by telling the Pope to piss off and Religious Nationalists letting Catholics know they are not considered Christian (Papists perhaps); the economy that is floundering for many people as affordability extends beyond the price of gas; engaging in a series of endless wars, yet another broken promise; etc.. Democrats have to offer a path back to rights and prosperity for all, not just a few. The worship of Mammon and power by MAGA, the Tech Broligarchs, the Epstein Class, and other misguided fools must be brought to heel.
It will never fail to astonish me that anyone feels they have the right to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her own body. Whatever happened to a person's right to privacy? Hopefully at some point a woman's right to abortion will become enshrined into law nationally.
It may have to be enshrined in The Constitution. Look what the Roberts Court did to Calais.
Good point, although having it enshrined in the Constitution would be a heavy lift with red states.
Dems need to work extraordinarily hard the next 2 elections to take control of as many State Legislatures as possible - in addition to both Chambers of Congress and the Presidency - and then give people reason to keep electing them. The rethuglicans are busy shooting at their own feet.
Absolutely! They'll be working 24/7 to clean up the mess the current administration has made!
We thought that "the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment includes a fundamental 'right to privacy'" which was the Roe decision.
Oops, after 50 years, turns out it wasn't.
Exactly! What part of 'right to privacy' do some people not understand?
If the decision is allowed to stand it's going to be a bonanza for The Mob. Heck, we can't manage to stanch the flow of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine into this country! So what is the chance that we'll be able to stop getting RU 486 into states where it's banned, especially given that there are many states where it's perfectly legal and there's vast public support for keeping it that way! I'd say that the chance of stopping (even illicit) mailing is close to zero.
This will be the biggest meal ticket for organized crime since Prohibition was instituted.
No doubt the Trump family would find a way in.
I'm sure that if Don the Con got one of his mistresses pregnant, he'd have no trouble securing some of those drugs for her-- whether she wanted them or not!
Something tells me there aren't any more pregnant mistresses for Turnip; powerful and impotent are two different things. Not to mention the dubious joy for her of making out with a guy in a diaper...
I disagree that there will be organized crime involved. Not enough money for the hassle, for one thing. The other is that there will be no need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGx7JkFSp4 (Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves)
There are currently programs, such as AidAccess (founded by a female gynecologist), that are and WILL provide abortion medications to countries where it's currently illegal. They will now send pills to states that ban abortions via plain-wrapped mail, and who is going to go through drugs-by-mail when so many people are getting them that way?
https://aidaccess.org/en/
You may well be right-- enforcement would be difficult-- even if RU 486 were banned unconditionally. I suppose whether it's lucrative enough for Mob involvement will depend on how intrusive and effective state and federal bans are.
And since Federal (FDA) jurisdiction, from what I understand, is only for INTERstate commerce, California was talking about setting up a drug-manufacturer that only operates in-state, so there would be no Federal case-- and if Californians independently mail those pills to people elsewhere, then it's on them rather than the drug manufacturer. No idea if they'd actually do it, and whether the Feds would crack down on it, Constitution be damned.
I really think this is toothpaste out of the tube now. There are numerous feminist, physician-backed, abortion access groups, national and international that will find a way.
With early pregnancy tests being so accurate (and even available at dollar stores!) most women will be able to get medication in time. And some, such as AidAccess have a sliding scale or are free for those who can't pay.
The root cause of this problem is religion. The First Commandment should have been, Thou shalt mind thine own business.
If Ben Franklin had his way, that would have been the motto on USA coinage.
Women's business is whatever the patriarchal men say it is.
Yes, I pledge to increase the volume of my opposition to limiting reproductive health care. And I will increase my donations to nonprofits that help women expand their healthcare options.
These religious fanatics who say a fertilized egg is exactly the same as a human being will NEVER stop until all abortion is eradicated in the US. How DARE they impose their religion on the rest of us. As Tim Walz said: “ Mind your own damn business!”
The evangelicals in the US are our taliban.
With all due respect to Ms. Weiss-Wolf, sending all good wishes to Jen Rubin, who has been sorely missed these days!
With the appeal to the Supreme Court, who would have thought we'd be coming down of the side of Big Pharma? Strange bedfellows indeed.
I am always amazed that politicians ( right now) can hold sway over science and medical knowledge on our health! I am sure they have no idea about the physiology of conception.
I posted a comment on another site yesterday (Friendly Atheist) that has relevance here. The antiabortion movement appeared in the 1970s as a response to Roe. It was dreamed up by conservative Christians and amounts to the implementation of their religious sensibilities into de facto law. Because of it, women have died and will continue to do so. Just wait around... Justices Thomas and Alito have both said that Griswold was improperly decided... Which could pull the right to birth control out from under women. What we actually have here is an authoritarian crisis where courts can legislate from the bench so they can lord over women and deny them their chance at 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.'
Abortion rights and the affordability issue are closely linked. The majority of women seeking abortion already have children and do not want or cannot afford additional children. In addition, red states where abortion is more difficult to obtain, legislators refuse to assist families after forcing them to have more children...no help with childcare, schooling, healthcare....the list goes on. In addition to standing up for bodily autonomy, we need to talk about this important issue!
America continues to sink to the bottom of the catch basin and the Democrats continue to do nothing.
But the comments here continue to get more and more long winded.
Long on wind, but quite short on solutions.
They all still walk the street free.
They all continue to destroy the economy, govt., completely and totally unopposed.
We all continue to do nothing.
Thank you, JWW for your piece. I thought that my state of Louisiana could not sink any lower by bringing the lawsuit that plunged the dagger into the heart of what was left of the Voting Right Act of 1965 with the help of the 6 Horsemen/Woman of the Apocalypse.
Thanks to you, I am unfortunately reminded that another atrocity is in the works with State of Louisiana v. FDA. LA AG Liz Murrill uses the ruse that mifepristone prescribed by telehealth and delivered by mail is unsafe when in reality, she doesn't like that the medication being readily accessible my mail flaunts the state's total ban on abortion/choice.
Based on its rulings of late (especially last week's Callais decision), don't be surprised if/when SCOTUS delivers yet another scathing blow to reproductive rights in this country.
"If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, is credited with those words. Own up, America ! In your stratospheric stupidity, you elected this criminal administration. NOW, OUR GENERATION, OUR CHILDREN'S GENERATION, AND THEIR CHILDREN'S GENERATION ARE DOOMED TO SUFFER THE HORRIFIC CONSEQUENCES.
If they thought they were solving the problem by overturning Roe they were not. If the Democrats are successful in November then they may be able to pack the court eventually and reject every one of the felons Supreme Court nominees, but this may not happen until 2028 or a massive impeachment occurs. Whoever argues before the court should be doing a bang up job on their fascist decision to overturn Roe.
I can imagine the clerks of the Seditious Six are hard at work during this granted stay searching and strategizing how they can limit the national use of medication abortifacients, trying to come up with something that would minimally pass the straight face test.
More evidence for the need to reform the Federal Court System. The supreme Red Court exercises “legislative power”at the top while other Federal Circuit Courts, especially the Fifth Circuit, can be pressed into serving as mini-Red Courts with their own “legislative” impact. Curiously we always see the Red Courts come down against the rights of citizens, but seldom if ever against the rights of individuals, businesses, or monopolies to make as much money as they can, any way they can. This is more fuel to the fire for the midterms: stripping away still more abortion rights, the rights of women to control their persons; insulting Catholics by telling the Pope to piss off and Religious Nationalists letting Catholics know they are not considered Christian (Papists perhaps); the economy that is floundering for many people as affordability extends beyond the price of gas; engaging in a series of endless wars, yet another broken promise; etc.. Democrats have to offer a path back to rights and prosperity for all, not just a few. The worship of Mammon and power by MAGA, the Tech Broligarchs, the Epstein Class, and other misguided fools must be brought to heel.