"It is time for the pro-life movement to pull up our big-boy boots and win the rest of the states"

[In It to Win It]

NY Times via Yahoo News

Within minutes of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday, the attorney general in Missouri issued an opinion banning abortion in his state. Abortion clinics in several cities, including Montgomery, Alabama, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, shut down. But others in Illinois and Ohio kept seeing patients.

At a Phoenix clinic, 40 women were waiting to schedule appointments, setting the staff scrambling for answers about whether it was still allowed to perform abortions. “We sent a bunch of people home, and they were hysterical,” said Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, the clinic’s owner.

David Ripley, the director of Idaho Chooses Life, said he did not think he would be alive to see the day when Idaho’s trigger ban on abortion — making it illegal upon Roe’s fall — would actually take effect.

“The court has finally admitted that its ruling and the rulings of the federal courts for the last 50 years have been egregiously wrong,” Ripley said. “I am ecstatic.”

On the other side, supporters of abortion rights worried for the millions of women living in the wide swath of the country where abortion will be illegal or essentially unavailable because of layers of restrictions that have added expense and delays for women seeking the procedure.

In Conway, Arkansas, Stacey Margaret Jones, 52, said she kept thinking about the women she encountered when she volunteered at Planned Parenthood.

“I feel really hopeless because I feel like there’s nothing I could have personally done differently,” Jones said. She has donated to candidates who support abortion rights, attended marches and written to her legislators. But in a conservative state like Arkansas, she does not feel like her voice is heard. Her state senator is Jason Rapert, a lead sponsor of Arkansas’ trigger law that outlawed abortion Friday.

“I’m looking for guidance from somebody or some organization to say, ‘OK, we knew this could happen and this is what we’re going to do,’” Jones said.

Troy Newman, the president of Kansas-based Operation Rescue, which staged a long campaign of blockades outside abortion clinics, said the decision still left too much latitude for states like his, largely led by Democrats, to allow abortion.

“It is now time for the pro-life movement to pull up our big-boy boots and win the rest of the states,” he said. “We will be mopping up, putting the remaining dirty, disgusting abortion mills out of business.”

[Vogon_Glory]

1. The anti-abortion fanatics are. In for a fight

Donnie and Moscow Mitch may have stacked the courts, but the only way they can ban abortion is to outlaw it nationwide.

By that time, I suspect that all but the dumbest s**t-for-brains MAGA Magoos will have some inkling that the Republican Party is not their friend.

[delisen]

2. "Big boy boots" talk. he thinks controlling women makes him manly,so pathetic.

The people who have convinced themselves they are western civilizations gift to the world, born to rule over others.

[roamer65]

3. ...and we will be busy putting the religious mills out of business.

It’s time to start dealing with the religious extremists at the source.

Start by taxing churches and classify the extremist ones as domestic terrorists.

[2naSalit]

4. That's a good start!

One of the most expedient things we can do is make sure to strengthen our majority in Congress.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. I've got a better idea

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Force so-called “crisis pregnancy clinics” to hold to the same standards as REAL clinics. Force them to have doctors and nurses on site and on staff. Force them to undergo the same licensing requirements as REAL clinics, with inspections and fines and civil and legal penalties when they don’t.

These crisis pregnancy clinics have operated on the cheap for decades, with minimal restrictions and little or no supervision. (After all, it’s not like they perform real medical services). They wanna play doctor? Force them to act like the REAL DEAL.

That’ll close most of them.

[roamer65]

6. +1000