The post-Roe rebirth of an unstoppable reproductive rights movement has only just begun

[babylonsister]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/26/2118949/-The-post-Roe-rebirth-of-an-unstoppable-reproductive-rights-movement-has-only-just-begun

The post-Roe rebirth of an unstoppable reproductive rights movement has only just begun
Kerry Eleveld for Daily Kos
Daily Kos Staff
Friday August 26, 2022 · 12:00 PM EDT
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In this post-Roe era, the reproductive rights movement is now similarly armed with personal accounts that transform an issue in real time. Abortion-related stories—once relatively scarce and often shrouded in shame—are now prolific and wrapped in righteousness.

A 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who was forced to cross state lines to terminate her pregnancy. A teenaged Florida orphan deemed not “sufficiently mature” by state courts to initiate an abortion, but apparently well positioned to singlehandedly raise a child. A Texas woman forced to continue carrying an unviable pregnancy for weeks until she could find a doctor willing to perform a procedure to extricate the dead fetus.

These are the makings of an unstoppable force. Every person of childbearing age—not to mention their mothers and fathers—can look at these stories and imagine, That could be me or my loved one, regardless of the circumstances by which they became pregnant and how badly they may or may not want to carry to term.

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Today, same-sex marriage has flipped from being a wedge issue that divided Democrats to one that unites them while driving a wedge straight through the heart of the GOP base, with pro-LGBTQ suburban dwellers largely parting ways with homophobic evangelicals.

Abortion rights are rapidly making the same transition. The big difference is that a solid majority of Americans were already with the reproductive rights movement, they simply needed a reason to prioritize the issue at the polls. An extremist Supreme Court has now handed choice activists that precipitous event along with a flood of harrowing stories to create lasting change.

[Hekate]

1. Here we are in a new era, and for the first time I can really say: We Will Not Go Back

The sheer numbers are on our side, and as the author says:

In this post-Roe era, the reproductive rights movement is now similarly armed with personal accounts that transform an issue in real time. Abortion-related stories—once relatively scarce and often shrouded in shame—are now prolific and wrapped in righteousness.

The language of the SCOTUS Dobbs decision was shocking in the way in which it used the old language of shaming to try to whip women back into line. Then they threw the decision back to the states, which was like throwing red meat to a pack of starving wolves, and which they had to have known would create chaos.

The fanatics have bleated for 40+ years about their supposed reverence for life, and now they stand nakedly revealed as people who do not care if women and girls die.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Battle cry of this election: Roe your vote, up and down the ballot!

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!



Abort the GOP!