My sincere thanks to the AZ SupremeCourt!

[Fiendish Thingy]

With your ruling today, you have ensured the following:

Joe Biden will win AZ in November
Rueben Gallego will be the next senator from AZ
Voters will enshrine reproductive rights in the AZ constitution in November, rendering today’s ruling both obsolete and unconstitutional.

In addition, the odds of Dems winning local, state and federal offices in AZ just increased dramatically.

So, thanks a bunch AZ Supreme Court!

[Lunabell]

1. YOU ARE SO CORRECT! (sorry for yelling, lol)

We are NOT going to take this shit!!!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Leave it to the states, they said.

Bwahahaha. What idiots. What hateful loser-ass idiots.

[Mister Ed]

3. Aye, but tempered by my sincere regrets...

...for the women who will suffer between now and that day.

[Tansy_Gold]

6. Some may die

Child rape victims' lives will be forever changed.

Families will be burdened.

Hearts will be broken.

I came across this today when looking for a quote to add to the daily Stock Market Watch thread:

The prediction that in the wake of the Hill-Thomas hearings, the Kennedy Smith trial, and other insults to women in the U.S., “visible, articulate fury” from those women would constitute “the warning of a revolution yet to come” came dramatically true. The year 1992 saw the highest number of women in U.S. history run for public office at every level—local, state, and federal. Furthermore, the elections saw a record number of women win. We doubled our numbers in the Senate and in the House of Representatives (although six out of one hundred in the former and approximately one-quarter of the latter is hardly cause for relaxation). We are now one-fifth of all state legislatures—yet we are still 51 percent of the population. Since a democracy half governed is not a democracy, this simply means more revolution still to come.

Robin Morgan. From the "Foreword" to the 1994 Second Edition of The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

My emphasis added, because this was published 30 years ago. Thirty fucking years.

[calimary]

29. And yes, we're STILL waiting.

[Tansy_Gold]

32. I am occasionally tempted to change my signature line

Then I remember it's still all too true.

from Margaret Atwood: Men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them.

Because they STILL DO.

[anciano]

4. Indeed, without a doubt!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Donate to an abortion fund to celebrate, because in the meantime, people will be hurting.

[shelshaw]

7. Like moth to flame

They just can’t help themselves

[Cha]

8. Yep.. could they be anymore Stupid? Probably.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Pissed-off women voters are dangerous.

Just sayin'

#FAFO

[whopis01]

10. I think the same thing is going to happen in Florida

The 6 week abortion ban goes into effect May 1st.

But on the ballot in November is an amendment to protect abortion until viability (24 weeks).

For a kicker recreational marijuana is also on the ballot. And while that is likely to draw out more liberals than conservatives, Republicans politicians have huge personal investments in it, so they are pushing hard for it to pass - which means they are appealing to liberal voters for it.

[Demovictory9]

11. Turn AZ solidly blue

[spanone]

12. K&R

[bsiebs]

13. "women are not without electoral or political power," Biden said. "You're about to realize just how much."...

GOTV!

[liberalla]

19. I loved it when he said that! You can't say they weren't warned!

GOTV!

KICK!

[BaronChocula]

23. Wish I could have seen Alito's face

as his own words were turned against him. What a despicable creature.

[FuzzyRabbit]

14. I hope you are correct

[mucifer]

15. It is hard to say thank you. Unless state legislature changes it, there will be a lot of suffering even

just in the time waiting until November.

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Hopefully there will be a stay to delay enforcement

And the AG has said she will not prosecute any cases under the law.

So, hopefully, women in Arizona will be both protected and pissed off from now until November.

[mucifer]

17. But, what about the physicians who don't want to go to prison.? I'm sure some will

leave the state before November.

[SupportSanity]

25. The AG can say she won't prosecute.... careful with that:

Florida court won’t reinstate prosecutor removed by DeSantis
for refusal to prosecute abortion cases

https://apnews.com/article/desantis-florida-prosecutor-suspended-e396fa31b17a1b1b075d353e6464aa55

DeSantis suspends another elected prosecutor in move derided as ‘politically motivated’

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/desantis-suspends-state-attorney-worrell-00110445

[Fiendish Thingy]

26. AZ has Dem governor

The AG doesn’t have anything to worry about.

[SupportSanity]

33. Thanks for the reminder

[Wednesdays]

18. If we all work hard to GOTV, this will definitely come true

See my sig line.

[oldsoftie]

20. There are a LOT of GOP women who assumed choice would always be there.

And many of them are PISSED; as evidenced by the votes already held in red states like Kansas.
I know a couple myself.

[SupportSanity]

21. Hell hath no fury like women voters scorned!

Perfect timing — right after Trump said he would leave it to the states. Great timing for democrats!

[SpankMe]

22. Arizonan Barry Goldwater "evolved" on abortion

He was pretty much against it early on. But when the GOP proposed a constitutional amendment banning it at the national level, he started to waiver.

Not only did he say being anti-abortion would be a loser for the GOP nationally, but he also became in favor of gays serving openly in the military. Later in his life, he made some public statements that could be interpreted as being almost pro-choice. He moderated as he aged.

We're seeing no such moderation among aging Trumpers.

[murielm99]

24. He favored a volunteer army as well.

That was considered a conservative position. I never quite understood why.

[calimary]

31. Cuz nobody wants to admit they were wrong,

or worse, that they’ve been HAD. Because they voted the way the trumpies and the slicky-boys fooled them into doing.

[ChazInAz]

27. This old theatrical from Arizona has a vision.

The republican members of Arizona's government are going to feel like they were in an electoral version of the climax of The Bacchae.
It will be brutal for them, and their own hubris brought it down on them!

[Blue Owl]

28. Let's see the GOP destroyed like that printer from Office Space

[Demsrule86]

30. You go...absolutely right.

[msfiddlestix]

34. Those were pretty much my thoughts as soon as I heard the report, and then having seen AZ Gov on tv

clued me in that these right wing lunatics whatever gender are in for a really hard reckoning come Nov.
I hope each and every one of the states ruling on banning abortions lose their asses en mass and forever.