How anti-abortion activists laid the groundwork for rollback of Roe v. Wade - PBS NewsHour

[TexasTowelie]

Last month, a leaked draft opinion showed that the Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that provided a right to abortion across the country. That decision is not yet final, but as special correspondent Cat Wise reports, the work by abortion-rights opponents to arrive at this moment has been decades in the making.

[hlthe2b]

1. I'd avoid too much "woulda, shoulda, coulda," but it has long depressed me that young women

were so damned convinced that ROE v Wade overturn could not happen and thus their rights were not at risk. We who fought for these rights or were the now-aging daughters of those who did know better. But the complacency was hard-wired. Same as with the younger LGBTQ generation, who ignored those who warned them to become politically active to defend those hard-fought rights.

Youth must learn for themselves, I suppose. As George Santayana so eloquently predicted:

[liberal N proud]

2. They have been setting this up for years

It is in my opinion the biggest contributor to the marriage between religion and republicanism

[Bluepinky]

3. Long range winning strategy, my ass.

They had to bed down with the most corrupt and vile Republican politicians to get what they wanted. They had to cheat, lie and grift to get where they wanted to go. Doctors had to die and clinics were bombed, the Supreme Court was compromised and our political system has been destroyed to get what they want.
Doesn’t sound like a winning strategy to me.