I assume this WILL galvanize voters. The big question is will it be enough to overcome voter supression, stacked courts, and handpicked Trumpist elections officials?

@MikeInBatonRouge Excellent question.

The Red States are already going after LGBTQ rights at a feverish pace. It’s only a matter of time until they wind up in front of the Catholic Court. What do you think the probability of gay marriage being reversed will be?

No pardon necessary. Only theists think taking "lord's name in vain" is profanity.

The US never even ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Yes, we are going backwards, the line in the sand that signifies equality has been moved too many times.

@MizJ I hate to say this, but the majority of women are ALLOWING this to happen.

@mischl Misogyny is ingrained in our society just as racism is. Women are not encouraged to be supportive to one another, they compete with one another to the detriment of all. I have been a victim of it.

When we as a society respect and value our daughters as we do our sons and raise females with healthy self esteem this will change, not before.

We have been backsliding for quite some time, it's been gradual but there. A few years ago I asked a twenty something if she knew who Gloria Steinem was...blank stare.

I know people my age (old enough) who don't know who Gloria Steinem is. More importantly, I know way too many people who are completely ignorant of this topic and many others that are plaguing our country and our world right now.

Am I the only male in our agnostic community who is a member and contributor to NOW, Planned Parenthood, and ACLU? Trust me, I am SERIOUS about womens' rights.

@mischl I hope you are not the only one. It is a man's issue too-I believe. I know that the men in my life don't want this to happen. But I don't think they are quite as outraged as I am. Although, I am pretty sure that if my father were alive he would be more outraged than I am. He was extremely pro-choice (more than I am, truthfully) and he was a Republican, if you can believe it.

There is nothing good about this. EVERYONE should get out to the polls, but I wish you would not say it is "good". There should be a turnout like no other because of this, but with all the voter suppression who can say if even that would do any good in this day -in-age.

@MyTVC15 Yet another threat people didn't take seriously. We've known for decades that Republicans base their voter suppression on racist/sexist desires, yet people didn't continually and repeatedly vote against them in landslide numbers. Is it too late now? Maybe. We, women especially it seems, will reap what we sow.

@MyTVC15 Zen informs us that whatever happens is good, that it is as it needs to be (as mandated by consequence of other actions), but I use it somewhat sarcastically as well. It's its own duality! I'll have to share that with a Zen group.

Yep, birth control is next, Griswold vs Connecticut, was how we got to Roe vs Wade and that fucking Catholic bitch who was rushed onto the court wants to see the end of birth control.

Well said !

This is not the fault of just one person.

@MyTVC15 It sure AF didn't help. If Ruth had give her seat up, at least the vote would be 4-4 right now waiting for Roberts. The current 5-3 pretty much guarantees Roe is going to be gone soon.

No, really I am shocked. This is the beginning of the end of women's civil rights in this country.

@MyTVC15 I called this the day she died. People like my buddy Brian said the Republicans would never follow through with it because it was more valuable to be able to say they wanted to ban abortion to get people to vote than it was to actually ban it. I told him he was dreaming and I was right...

"Kiss your uterus goodbye, ladies.

"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR" [npr.org]"

@ChestRockfield The Republicans will not have what they want if there is a huge backlash, which is what I am hoping for.

@MyTVC15 How so? Why would they care if there is a backlash as long as abortion is banned?

@MyTVC15 if the 70% of people who favor legal abortion show up and vote against them, they will seriously be pissed. Plus, it takes away one of their big yelling points, how they will protect the unborn, even though they never passed legislation while they had control of the government, it gave them a whipping girl.

@Barnie2years @MyTVC15
Well, this is the bargain they made with each other. The "regular" greedy Republicans wanted a massive tax cut like usual and the religious right who think they have morals held their nose and voted for the most morally bankrupt piece of shit the electorate had ever seen so they could get the judges they needed to overturn Roe. If they cede power, so be it. That's how they work. They get into power, do awful greedy shit that benefits only the rich, only for it to cause them to lose power and they ride through the Dem years counting their cash. This time while half of them are counting their cash the other half of them get to count all of the women that die from botched back alley abortions. (i.e. They know the things they did may cost them control, and they are all fine with it.) Go back and look at footage of the 'King of saying the quiet part out loud' openly telling the religious right, "Even if you don't like me, you have to vote for me to get the beautiful new judges."