How Did Roe Fall?
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The downfall of the constitutional right to abortion began 12 years ago, after Republicans swept state house elections and passed hundreds of restrictions.
By Kate Zernike
June 25, 2022
The beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade arrived on election night in November 2010.
That night, control of state houses across the country flipped from Democrat to Republican, almost to the number: Democrats had controlled 27 state legislatures going in and ended up with 16; Republicans started with 14 and ended up controlling 25. Republicans swept not only the South but Democratic strongholds in the Midwest, picking up more seats nationwide than either party had in four decades. By the time the votes had been counted, they held their biggest margin since the Great Depression.
There had been a time, in the 15 years after Roe, when Republicans were as likely as Democrats to support an absolute right to legal abortion, and sometimes even more so. But 2010 swept in a different breed of Republican, powered by Tea Party supporters, that locked in a new conservatism. While Tea Party-backed candidates had campaigned on fiscal discipline and promised indifference to social issues, once in office they found it difficult to cut state budgets. And a well-established network was waiting with model anti-abortion laws.
In legislative sessions starting the following January, Republican-led states passed a record number of restrictions: 92, or nearly three times as many as the previous high, set in 2005.
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SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)Martin68
(22,801 posts)I'm sorry, I gotta laugh,
Laugh just to keep from crying.
SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)make no mistake, they are operating behind the scenes but they are very, very wealthy and very, very powerful.
Their goal in every country is to control the judiciary because then they control the government. They were founded under Generalissimo Franco in Spain, they were big supporters of Pinochet's coup and dictatorship in Chile and Fujimori in Peru. They are basically a patriarchal, fascist cult. I have family members who are Opus Dei so i know more about them than I want to know.
Some of their adherents are Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Kavanaugh, and Justice Robert. Gorsuch is Episcopalian but he is very, very conservative.
Amy Comey Barrett is a member of the People of Faith Catholic cult which has similar goals.
Read up on Leaonard Leo, who got most of the cultists on the Supreme Court. Read up on Opus Dei to learn about them.