Holy Courtroom! Sonja Sotomayor just brought up a chilling observation!

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41. I see so many knock-ons happening if Roe is invalidated.

We truly will be 3rd class citizens. We women are the canaries in the coal mines. They saw the "lasting" support for the "Me Too" movement. They saw what Trump could get away with and still have so much support. They saw what others could get away with in court and walk out all but Scott-free. Our rights, one by one, will be stripped from us. The right to hold credit in our own name is a late-comer, only available since the 1970's; it'll be stripped. The right to own property in our own name; again, a late comer. Kiss it goodbye. So many inroads we made since the 1970's and 1980's. All we marched and fought for from the 1960's and on will be gone. Back to the 1950's and prior, women!

And once they have done it to us women and seen that they have succeeded with so little effort, they will use the map for all the other marginalized groups. Like I said, we are but the canaries in the coalmines. We marched for everyone else to help everyone else, because we not only knew what it felt like to be on the margins, we didn't want *anyone* to BE on the margins. Call it empathy, call it our nurturing nature, call it our democratic proclivities. But what happens to one will happen to all of us once the least of us goes down.

Here I'm going to say something Non-PC. Women, amongst minorities, I'm afraid are the least of us. Why? Because we are not now, nor have we ever been united. We have too many among our ranks who are on the "other side." Who fight against women's rights. Who fight against the right to make their own decisions. Who fight against their right to their own lives. I can't begin to understand them, anymore than I can begin to understand the republican mind. But my opinion is that, in the whole of history, only those groups who are one - united against an opposing force can repel and defeat that opposing force. And women, that ain't us. And I say this with both anger and tears in my eyes.

I don't know if the tears are from anger or grief or if it really matters anymore. I'm 65. I can't get pregnant any longer. But all good credit we have is in my name. If they strip my credit from me and my husband, we're sunk. If they take away my SSA check and make us live on hubby's alone, as it used to be? We might as well either divorce (like it used to be done), or shuffle off this mortal coil together (also as it used to be done).

I'm not prone to hyperbole. There is a real roadmap here the Dominionists and other Republican extremists are looking to inflict on us. Forewarned is forearmed. I can only hope some country would offer refugee status to American women should this crap come to pass. It's not beyond thought, I hope. Just one generation less, and I could have had right to return to Ireland, drat it all!!!