I thought if Roe v Wade is overturned ..what is left for Republicans

[Le Roi de Pot]

They can no longer use it a wedge issue.

But I remembered there are many more steps left from making America into a christian nation ..( or as they call it - 'GREAT').. These assholes will not stop until they have Talibanized America...

[mercuryblues]

1. Methods of Birth control.

Make no mistake, once you take away a woman's right over her own body, removing the rest of her rights are easy.

[HAB911]

28. that will be next for sure

[uponit7771]

29. Yep

[Rincewind]

2. They will no longer need

wedge issues, if we no longer have elections.

[Girard442]

7. Yup. After the Senate confirms Barett and Trump is crowned king, they might as well go home.

Nothing for them to do anymore.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Obergefell, vouchers for religious education, plenty others. NT

[Cicada]

4. They will try to outlaw democrats having sex with and then eating children

[Klaralven]

5. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

[TEB]

6. Unions

Repigs hate us

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Oh, lots of goodies:

1. Criminalize birth control
2. Criminalize adultery
3. Mandatory Christian prayers in schools
4. Criminalize sodomy and gay marriage
5. Re-institute Plessy v Ferguson (Separate-But-Equal)
6. Segregation (buying homes, schools, employment, wages) See #5

[Yavin4]

42. If they do items 1 and 2 on your list...

America becomes a giant penal colony. Only Ted Cruz will be a free man because no one wants to fuck him.

[JI7]

9. They are more about Racism than Roe V Wade. Roe v Wade is more about wanting to control women

it's not specifically about wanting to stop abortions itself but more about not wanting women to be independent. These same people oppose birth control and sex education in general.

[betsuni]

10. Old-fashioned Republicans knew how to use wedge issues.

Never following through on promises about abolishing abortion and so on. As long as you promise to do things and don't, you can string them along for decades. Actually doing it is bad.

[krispos42]

11. Guns

Of course

[CurtEastPoint]

12. Are you kidding? Marriage equality... out the window.

[MuseRider]

18. At the moment I am more worried

about my gay friends. Most everyone is out and known. This could be really bad for them with this supreme court. Really bad.

They will get rid of the pesky baby killers first then LGBTQ are next. I would bet on it.

[CurtEastPoint]

20. A safe bet. They are salivating at the prospect.

[progree]

13. pre-Roe v. Wade, it was up to the states. Roe v. Wade got rid of state bans

so if Roe V. Wade is overturned, there's still a big battle left: making an abortion ban apply to the entire U.S. instead of leaving it up to the states.

[Mz Pip]

25. That would take a Constitutional Amendment

Almost impossible IMHO.

[progree]

26. The Supreme Court decides what's constitutional

[snowybirdie]

14. I have a relative

who is a tRump supporter but who thinks she's a feminist. She stated to me four years ago that the Republicans will never outlaw abortion, ever! Ha!

[Bettie]

15. They will then demand a nationwide ban, overriding state laws

and state constitutions.

What they will demand is no abortions ever in any circumstance.

Then they will go after a ban on contraception.

I had a conversation (argument) with a couple of fetus fetishists several years ago and we talked about a woman whose life would be endangered by pregnancy and they kept on with "if she dies it is god's will, every woman should be prepared to die if she becomes pregnant". At that point, I walked away, because there is no reasoning with them.

[treestar]

34. Medieval

In those times, if you could heal, you could be accused of being a "witch" as the suffering was God's will. If they apply that to childbirth, it would seem to apply to everything else, too.

[Bettie]

36. And that is why we have to expand the court

or no one except the rich and powerful will have any rights at all.

You know how we note that when polled there is a subset of Republicans who would prefer slavery still be in place? That is the direction we're moving. Hyperbole? Well, so much that was unthinkable three years ago is now what's happening. Maybe, but maybe not.

[smirkymonkey]

38. That is just sick.

How can anyone consider themselves pro-life and think that way?

[Bettie]

41. They aren't "pro-life" they are

fetus fetishists.

Of all the "pro-lifers" I have ever known, only one supports taking care of unwanted children and making contraception easily and inexpensively available. This one person is also the only so-called pro-lifer I have met who isn't an enthusiastic supporter of the death penalty as well.

So, I do see her as truly pro-life, the rest, it's all about punishing women for having sex.

[J_William_Ryan]

16. The battle will move from the courtroom to the ballot box.

We will need to use the political process – rather than the judicial – to oppose or repeal restrictions on privacy and reproductive rights, same-sex marriage bans, measures suppressing voting rights, and measures seeking to conjoin church and state.

[MuseRider]

17. Voting has been brought up from time to time

usually quietly or loud then gone. This is how it is done. Jobs too. They want us back under the thumb of our husbands and making dinner and having babies like it was in the good old days. The good old days never stopped for some but the rest of us are not going back there.

It always starts with a mention but once this is overturned it will all be vomited out for us to see. It is going to be a long time before we ever get back to the pitiful place we are now without an ERA.

[Takket]

19. An interesting question I hope we never get an answer to

They would most likely just replace it with another wedge issue to keep their base in line. Probably moving to bring back segregation and Jim Crow laws.

[PTWB]

21. You're not looking at the big picture.

It will be VERY easy for them to transition to “preventing another Roe v Wade” instead of “overturning Roe v Wade” - literally NOTHING will change about the abortion wedge issue except some minor phrasing of their talking points to fire up their base.

[lark]

22. Birth control - they will say overturning RvW overturns all contraceptive rights.

They will say birth control pills are a form of abortion and outlaw them and then they will have gone too far and will be a permanent minority or disappear. That is if they haven't completely gutted the constitution by then and we are no longer America. I think that is what they truly plan - a male and rich dominated society with workers or women or minorities having zero rights and being in effect - serfs.

[CTyankee]

23. "serfs" how fitting. Because we will be under Russia's thumb.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

33. I don't think that is going to happen

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I know lots of anti-abortion women who are very pro-contraception. They all use it. Never happening. Men wouldn't want that either.

[SlogginThroughIt]

43. Sure women want contraception....

[lark]

51. Crazy rw fascists want it, they want women to have zero control of their bodies.

That's the idiots getting put on SCOTUS, so it doesn't matter what society wants, fascist SCOTUS wants to take us back to the dark ages and that's where we will go if Dems don't step up and change the presidency, the Senate as well as SCOTUS.

[smirkymonkey]

39. This would not work out so well for them either.

How will they provide for all those unwanted and unplanned children? What do they propose when there are millions of children in the foster care system or orphanages? What becomes of these children?

[SlogginThroughIt]

44. why do you think they don't want to rais min wage?

They want slave labor. They just don't want to have to house and feed them. Give people a pittance to try and survive on and you have a very cheap labor force.

[lark]

50. You think they give a shit about them, ha, no.

Most, will be taken by the mom or her or dads' relatives, even if they can't afford them. Some will be abandoned and that number will go up dramatically from what's happening now and more children will be adopted. Then there will be the unlucky ones who get thrown in the system, have any kind of issues at all so don't get adopted and corps will be glad to have a source of little-no wage workers. All the while society is lots more poor and devastated as we sink into the mire.

[themaguffin]

24. Um, no. It would be "Vote for us to PROTECT..." insert the rest.

[HAB911]

27. Without a doubt, birth control

[BlueNProud]

30. Brown v. Board of Education*

[mercuryblues]

49. What does the asterisk mean?

Welcome to DU

[MineralMan]

31. Contraception, Health Care, Voting Rights, and so much more.

There are multiple issues of interest to the far right. Think about it.

[Retrograde]

32. Creeping "Christianity"

Marriage equality goes out the window, along with protections for anyone who doesn't fit into the ideal family mold. Increasing restrictions on contraception availability. Public funding of religious schools. The Affordable Care Act is at least gutted if not ditched completely.

Rollbacks on worker protection. Overthrow of the Lily Ledbetter act. Rollbacks on environmental protection. Chipping away at Brown vs Board of Education. And it will probably go on from there.

[SMC22307]

35. Are you kidding? God in schools, marriage equality, guns, Dreamers,

Social Security and Medicare (yes, they'll be able to convince their dumbass followers that they're bad things...), etc. They'll NEVER run out of wedge issues and it's kind of surprising that you even asked the question.

[Codeine]

37. They don't give a fuck about abortion.

They just hate. It’s all about hate.

[smirkymonkey]

40. +1000

[kairos12]

45. Voting rights, health care, marriage equality, the environment,

unlimited guns for all, ability to regulate business, it doesn't end.

[Jspur]

47. A lot is still left

for them to do. Destroy all worker rights and go back to what it was like in earlier part of 20 century where there was no safety for workers due to companies legally not being liable. I don't believe America today is a religious country. The majority of people are not religious so when they start trying to push religion on people there will be a political rebellion.

[Crunchy Frog]

48. The next step is to make abortion illegal nationally. That is sufficient to keep them galvanized.

They won't give up on such an effective wedge issue.

[sarcasmo]

52. Enforcing womb control, Handmaids Tale style