The Onion NAILS It.

[kpete]

Supreme Court Votes 5-4 To Reclassify Women As Service Animals
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[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...nt

[SheltieLover]

2. Kicking for visibility

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I thought it was 6-3

[Sneederbunk]

5. Nope. Roberts dissented.

[rsdsharp]

9. Nope. Roberts concurred in the judgment. He just wouldn't have gone as far as Alito.

[IronLionZion]

10. 6-3 was to uphold the Mississippi law banning abortions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/24/supreme-court-ruling-abortion-dobbs/?itid=hp-banner-high

Roberts' dissent was for expanding the ruling to include Roe and Casey. So that part of it was 5-4

[Deuxcents]

6. We have become incubators

Yesterday, I was angry about the gun ruling. Today, I’m furious at this ruling n feel only rage. I am no longer of child bearing age but I have 2 granddaughters that are n the millions of woman who are no longer free to make their choice. I fear there are even more changes coming as this SC n Alito seem to admire the status of 16th century laws concerning women

[calimary]

57. You and me both. Two granddaughters whose bodies are "property of the state"

and no longer their own. Little girls now. But they’ll grow up not knowing what their mom and grandma had: the right to have the last word over their own bodies. They live in a red state. Where women are now property.

[niyad]

7. Enraged KNR

[demigoddess]

8. next thing you know, they will be taking away women's right to vote.

[cloudboy07]

14. Their probably working on that ?

[Mr. Evil]

16. Well, of course they are.

Conformity, compliance, obey.

Now, let us pray (prey?)

[Eyeball_Kid]

25. Certainly contraceptions. n/t

[FakeNoose]

28. Well, isn't a pregnant woman entitled to vote twice?

I mean, as of today a fetus has more rights than its host incubator, wouldn't you say?

If women can still vote, we should be able to vote once for ourselves and once for our unborn babies.
I say this hypothetically of course - because I'm not pregnant, at the moment.

[ancianita]

48. I like the way you think. Register her unborn to vote since her unborn deserves

more representation than she does.

[Colbert]

59. Indentured

Since you're indentured to the fetus, you're only entitled to 3/5 of a vote (and it probably falls to the father of the fetus to cast that vote). Pretty sure that's the way it's written up in the Constitution.

[calimary]

29. A very reasonable fear. They're emboldened.

And vigorously cheered on by the knuckledragger contingent.

If anybody ever told you your vote doesn’t matter, beware the wishful thinking on their part.

[NH Ethylene]

37. I think that's right after banning all contraceptives. n/t

[treestar]

60. that's one they can't fuck with

it's an amendment. They'd have to get an amendment repealed, and we know how tough that is.

[IronLionZion]

11. The RW court is feeling cocky

and could easily push it as far as they can on other issues because who's going to stop them?

[2naSalit]

23. +1

Welcome to DU!

[Lonestarblue]

24. There actually isn't anyone to stop them unless Democrats win a majority in Congress

AND the Democrats who win are willing to actually do something about the rights and the SC.

If Democrats win his fall, the first step I would like to see in January 2023 is passage of a law protecting reproductive rights for all women in all states—no state laws allowed to make it difficult for women to get an abortion. And while they’re at it, make sure no federal funds can be used to support the Christian right’s crisis pregnancy centers. They are not medical facilities; they should not be allowed to advertise themselves as such.

Next, pass term limits of no more than 15 to 18 years for SC justices, with justices having served that number denied grandfathered status. At 15 years, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts would be gone, though only Thomas at 18. I don’t know whether such a law can be made retroactive. If term limits can’t be made retroactive, then expand the Court by 4.

The third most important act is to grant statehood to PR and DC to give them time to get prepared to hold state elections in 2024. If Republicans thought any territory would favor them, they would do this in a heartbeat.

Next, voting rights. We just need Democrats willing to act so those like Manchin and Sinema can be sidelined along with their obstruction.

[calimary]

32. Wish I could rec this post 1,000,000 times.

What a deeply disturbing day.

But when I think on how discouraged I feel, what makes me stop is the realization that it’s exactly how the bad guys want me to feel. Discouraged- so much that I just give up.

Well, I’ve got some news for them: I’M NOT GIVING UP! NO FUCKING WAY!!!!

[Lonestarblue]

41. I'm not giving up either, but we need Democratic leaders to help.

Democrats need to go on talk shows and even Fox. Videos need to be created showing the dangers to women’s lives. We need a new head of the DNC, someone who does more than send out routine emails asking for money. We need another dozen Stacy Abrams.

Today’s decision just settled a decision I’ve been mulling, which is leaving Texas. I will stay through this year because I’m determined to vote against every Republican on the ballot this fall. Next year, I will move to a blue state where it will be safer for me to become a “Jane” to give women from red states a place to stay while they have a safe abortion in a sane state.

There will be other things I can do as well. I remember a Ken Burns documentary on the women’s struggle to obtain the vote and how many years and how much effort that consumed lives to achieve that basic right. The Supreme Court is determined to create second-class citizenship for women. We cannot let them.

[calimary]

54. Well, I refuse to let them.

I'd also suggest finding a grassroots Democratic group, or a more conventional Democratic group, or a local progressive group, or an Indivisible group! SOME sort of activist group, and get involved - even if just a little bit. Shit - you should know about MINE! I still can't believe my good fortune of lucking into this little group of activists and writers and thinkers and strategists. It's mainly women, mainly older - I'd say 50+ in age range, workers, retirees, wives, moms, and grandmas, and they get more done than I could believe even by seeing it.

I don't know how I lucked out! We meet every week. We write "asks" that are sent out every week with background info on the issue, links for reference, and suggested talking points to give a caller ideas for what to say when he or she calls in to his or her Senator, Congressmember, or state/local legislators' offices. We make it as easy as possible, and the phone numbers and links to email addresses are also provided. And OUR material gets shared with Indivisible sister groups in our area! When I've been able to physically go out to events of any sort (VERY limited though, cuz of COVID), and I happen to meet another activist or two, I talk up what we do and inevitable get somebody's contact info, so they, too, can start getting our weekly email.

I was just bragging about it, today. We have not one but TWO writers in the writers group who are environmentalists. They tend to handle any eco-issues because they're our resident "specialists," but remarkably enough, each week, each of 'em winds up writing about a different issue in the greater universe of environmental/ecological concerns. There's never a repeat or duplication. Up here in Oregon, we've got rivers, forests, open areas, mountains and rolling hills, and a multitude of concerns therein, plus "adjacent issues" like overdevelopment, congestion, and fire season. Every week I'm just that much more impressed with what they come up with!

And at a time like this, it's good to have a group with which to commiserate, and brainstorm what can be done about whatever it is, within a cocoon of safety and friendship, and people who give a damn. It's encouraging and sustaining, even in times of bad news. It reminds me that there are things that CAN be done. (Like just having gotten rid of our DINO Congressman Kurt Schrader, who's a bigger friend to Republicans than he ever seemed to be to US DEMS - even when WE'RE the ones who brought him to the dance.

[wnylib]

33. Limits on length of service would require

a constitutional amendment. Can't do it by passing a law.

[NH Ethylene]

39. I'd like to see a law that requires th Supreme Court to be balanced,

In that those appointed by each party are present in the same numbers, regardless of who is president when appointment times come up.

[IronLionZion]

51. Pete Buttiegieg had that policy proposal for his presidential campaign

15 judges. 5 from each party and those 10 select the remaining 5.

We could propose something similar to that with 9 I suppose.

[SWBTATTReg]

58. Very interesting proposal of Buttiegieg. Perhaps every presidential election cycle, we should

have (of still 15 judges like you said), every four years, we elect 5 new judges. Thus, initially start w/ 15, then elect 5 replacement judges in the next presidential cycle, etc. If a judge dies during their term, the president gets to select the replacement, and All of the Congress gets to vote on them (not just the Senate, IMHO, the Senate's is getting to be a roadblock and is subject too easily to manipulation by repugs (as we can see)).

Point is that lifetime appointments are dangerous. There are no restraints (as we're seeing now, despite promises made by the candidates prior to being confirmed, as Collins will verify, that they lied to her, that they wouldn't stir up long established law).

When these people are beyond reach, I feel that they abuse power. As this is so clearly showing. Look at the idiot Justice Thomas now demanding that other like laws be repealed. Who in the hell gave him the right to decide what's law and what's not? And these very same people moaned about law being made in the Courts.

He needs to be impeached and removed (along w/ his gutter wife who can't keep her damn mouth shut, in trying to influence law, break the law efforts).

I'm surprised that someone hasn't filed a lawsuit disputing the Supreme Court's ruling, put a stay on it (Roe vs. Wade), perhaps this can't be done but

[calimary]

61. Another most interesting proposal!

[Bettie]

52. Great list I'd add one thing

Change the "Permanent Apportionment Act" to better reflect the larger US population.

Set a number of people per rep at the size of the smallest state. That is the number of people per congressional district.

It makes sure that there is appropriate representation for everyone, makes it harder to gerrymander, and makes the EC much more reflective of the popular vote.

[Paladin]

12. God bless The Onion, as always. (nt)

[RANDYWILDMAN]

13. Really 6-3 yeah Roberts pulled back his vote for show

he is trying to make it look closer then it really was


Alito is a legal shitbag and his reasoning is terrible

[Mr. Evil]

20. Alito is as far right extremist as there can be.

A monster that sees human beings as animals to be herded. A glorious action inspired by his god.

Just another Party of Death sadist.

[PeaceWave]

17. It's going to get so much more surreal...

At some point in the near future, what happens when a woman travels from Texas to California to have an abortion and, while she is in California, her Texas neighbors rat her out to Texas authorities? Some zealous DA in Texas will, under the guise of enforcing Texas criminal law, petition California for extradition of the "fugitive." The case will get kicked all the way up to the Supreme Court where Clarence Thomas will invoke the Dred Scott decision to claim that the "fugitive" woman seeking an abortion needs to be returned to Texas for prosecution. Terrifying.

[CaptainTruth]

19. What about HIPAA?

It seems like the medical care provider in CA could invoke HIPAA & refuse to disclose any info about the patient's medical condition or any medical treatment they received.

Not sure it would stop a warrant or court order, but it seems like something attorneys should be looking at.

[PeaceWave]

21. HIPAA itself is threatened by this decision...

According to this Supreme Court, you now have no implied right to privacy. Get ready for traffic stops that turn into searches of your medical records (which, conveniently, are now all available online).

[wnylib]

36. NY has passed laws that prevent extradition in cases like that

NY law also prevents sharing records with out-of-state abortion prosecutors.

More states need to do this. If

If it goes to the SC, I suspect that governor Hochul and AG Letitia James would refuse to comply with a SC order to extradite a woman or her doctor for prosecution. I think that they would also refuse to release medical records.

[Blue Owl]

18. Let the "Supreme Court" have it with both barrels

[JohnnyRingo]

22. They could probably do this all day.

[burrowowl]

26. Kick

[Faux pas]

27. I

told a friend of mine that we are back to being property again.

[PeaceWave]

30. Actually, this is a path back towards women simply not existing at all...

Coverture was the process whereby females were deemed to have no legal identity. At birth, a female baby was covered by her father's identity, and then, when she married, by her husband's. The husband and wife became one–and that one was the husband. As a symbol of this subsuming of identity, women took the last names of their husbands.

Think of it...We have a Supreme Court that insists that a corporation is a person but is on the path towards saying that a woman is not a person!

[calimary]

34. Yep. Woman As Property.

We’re only there to make their dinners, make their beds, and make their babies.

Well, I REFUSE to go along with that!

[Faux pas]

35. ...

Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, you've enlightened me more. Don't get me wrong I do appreciate it. It's bad enough that we live in a time of alternate universes. It's BEYOND that we have to live in ours with THEM.

[wnylib]

38. Corporations are persons.

A fetus is a person.

But a woman is not a person.

Guns, corporations, and fetuses have more rights than women.

Sharia law never became the scary reality that the RWers said it would. But Canon law did.

Time to take back the nation from the fascists.

[MustLoveBeagles]

31. That's exactly what the did

[orleans]

40. don't leave these out

Kavanaugh, Thomas Champion Creating Better Future For Next Generation Of Rapists https://bit.ly/3xYNMhk

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[dalton99a]

47. +1

[William769]

42. K&R.

[peppertree]

43. Don't give'em any ideas!

[Evolve Dammit]

44. So if a bounty hunter shows up can we "stand our ground" from the threat? I think yes. n/t

[PeaceWave]

45. Bounty hunters? Don't give them any ideas!

If these SOBs get their way, there will be a revamped "Cops" show profiling law enforcement arresting pregnant women. Needless to say, the theme song will be "Bad Girls."

[Evolve Dammit]

46. I was thinking of TX offering rewards for turning in anyone seeking/aiding an abortion. I think of

Those who would do that as bounty hunters.

[ancianita]

49. Seriously.

[keithbvadu2]

50. Madison Cawthorn publicly referred to women as "Earthen vessels, sanctified by Almighty God"

Madison Cawthorn publicly referred to women as "Earthen vessels, sanctified by Almighty God"


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[johnnyfins]

53. FUCK HIM

[nuxvomica]

55. So why not challenge on 13th Amendment grounds?

Maybe no explicit abortion right in the Constitution but if you reframe it as "forced pregnancy" it is certainly involuntary servitude.

[The Jungle 1]

56. We are a fascist nation

Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. wiki