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'git yer biscuits in the oven and yer buns in bed.'
that's the GQP's message to women.
oh, and also, 'may the lord open.'

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-s-matt-gaetz-some-pro-abortion-protesters-are-over-educated-under-loved-women/
'GOP's Matt Gaetz: Some pro-abortion protesters are ‘over-educated, under-loved’ women'
yes. god forbid women should be EDUCATED.
gurl, put that book down and get back in the kitchen!

Data brokers are selling information on women visiting Planned Parenthood and other clinics offering abortion services... Profiting off of despair and pain, these people are truly evil.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood

"Differences of Opinion" (this is good... very fitting for our times)

#cartoon by Jen Sorensen from 2019
#abortionrights

They just started:
"Alito's draft opinion explicitly criticizes Lawrence v. Texas (legalizing sodomy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (legalizing same-sex marriage). He says that, like abortion, these decisions protect phony rights that are not "deeply rooted in history."

Elie Mystal on the birdsite:

" I will remind you all that the order of operations for conservative SCOTUS was important. They had to take away voting rights by eviscerating the Voting Rights Act BEFORE they could take away abortion.
They're counting on voter suppression to blunt the backlash."

And a couple of states are looking at bringing arguments to overturn the Loving decision about mixed race marriages or as we've always called it marriage

tristan snell wrote:
'Make no mistake what Alito’s “deeply rooted in our history” test means. If you’re a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ, an immigrant, or from a religious minority, the Radical Right’s Constitution excludes you.
The irony is that Alito’s test excludes protection for Catholics — who’ve historically suffered persecution throughout most of American history. It’s a Catholic conservative majority that is overturning Roe. But the GOP it empowers is already turning anti-Catholic.'

david sirota wrote:
'It’s weird how Republicans can implement their entire agenda even when they are in the minority, but Democrats cannot implement any of their agenda even when they are in the majority.'
yikes. true. we need to change both of these things.

new from ian millhiser.
'The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy, and is now one of the chief architects of America’s democratic decline.'
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23055427/supreme-court-abortion-alito-dobbs-roe-wade-voting-race

andrew wortman wrote:
'The fact that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court opened an investigation into a leaked brief within 24 hours but has yet to open an investigation into a sitting justice’s wife openly plotting a coup to overthrow the U.S. government is a FIVE ALARM FIRE.'