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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jun 25, 2022, 02:54 PM Jun 2022

The Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade completes the GOP's three-step nanny-state plan

Women's decisions about their reproductive healthcare are no longer theirs to make. It's now up to the individual states to decide whether or not you can terminate a pregnancy, because the Supreme Court has decided that there is no constitutional right to an abortion.

That's right, the U.S. Supreme Court has officially overturned 50 years of established legal precedent, effectively sending American women back to pre-1973 America, before Roe v. Wade was decided and then repeatedly upheld, and the right to seek an abortion depended on which state you lived in.

That's true again, today. As of June 24, it is now a question for state legislatures whether women should be allowed to access abortion care.

In a 6-3 decision, the court decided that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, and that it is up to the states can choose whether or not to impose extreme restraints on reproductive healthcare (including the possibility of criminalization).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-overturning-roe-v-120022373.html

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The Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade completes the GOP's three-step nanny-state plan (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
our health care decisions are STILL ours to make..just not in Hillbilly-land (or Putin land) samnsara Jun 2022 #1
It's the right to privacy in the most intimate of affairs Claire Oh Nette Jun 2022 #2

samnsara

(17,616 posts)
1. our health care decisions are STILL ours to make..just not in Hillbilly-land (or Putin land)
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 02:57 PM
Jun 2022

...think of those states as third world countries to be avoided at all costs. Drive around them, past them, fly over them... just never live, visit, or work there.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
2. It's the right to privacy in the most intimate of affairs
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 03:01 PM
Jun 2022

It's not just about ending a pregnancy.

If no one can do a D & C, what happens to the women who miscarry? The ectopic pregnancy?

How many dead white women will it take?

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