FOR THOSE WHO ARE DOWN!

[NYC Liberal]

Remember: WE ARE THE PEOPLE! And we are capable of INCREDIBLE THINGS.

Here's a picture to cheer you up. THIS IS WHAT WE CAN DO!

[lovedems]

1. Yep. I thought about it yesterday and how many "security moms"

voted for Bush will wake up and realize that roe v. wade could hang in the balance?

IF the security mom was an issue anyway. I am a mother and most of my friends are mothers and our security issue was getting the chimp out of office.

[Journeyman]

2. Atrios raised the possibility the Court could overturn. . .

Griswold v. Connecticut, the case which established the right to privacy for birth control (http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/11/myths.html). And of course, in a nightmare scenario, there are countless other decisions that could be overturned, many of which could easily impact lives as much as Roe or Griswold.

Now, there are those who say the Reich will never accede to such sweeping changes, that they need these flashpoint issues to bring out the vote, but if there's truth to the contention that fear of gay marriage brought out the vote this cycle, what's to stop them from dispensing with the issues of a woman's privacy if they know they have other, equally useful social issues they can exploit?

[lovedems]

3. Look at what they passed in Florida. A teenage girl now has to have

permission of her parents to get an abortion.

For all of those mothers out there who voted for Bush, you suck.

[kayell]

7. My daughter in FL was furious about that.

She said that around 80% of the women she knows liked that rule. Shockingly, most of them are in their twenties, recently enough to clearly know the effect this would have had on them.

One of them told DD that she was a bad mother not to support this repression, because "what about if your daughter {currently 5} didn't tell you because you voted that way".

DD of course says she hopes DGD would tell her if such a thing happened, because she hopes that DGD would feel safe with her, but that you can't force someone to trust you. And that she is raising DGD to have an independent mind capable of making her own choices in life, rather than a DD clone.

Other woman didn't get it at all.

Authoritarianism is running rampant in this country.

[lovedems]

8. I don't live in Florida and I am furious about it!

Christ! I don't even talk to my dad about the weather! There is no way in hell I would discuss with a topic as personal as this! This law assumes stable family relationship and that is wrong! WTF! My family put the funk in dysfunctional and I am astounded that anyone could support something like this. My heart cries for the teen age girls in Florida.

[flygal]

4. Yep! and when they're paying $3 for gas to fill up their SUV's...

and when their parents have no SS and move in with them, when their husbands are over in Iraq for three years!!!....I think these people will turn on the fundies. I refuse to believe the fundies have taken over!!

[lovedems]

5. I share your optimism

and repeat

All of you mothers who voted for Bush suck. May you get the America you dreamed of.

[Skidmore]

6. I was just watching Iron-Jawed Angels

and it occurred to me that a whole century of advancement in human rights could be wiped away in the next four years without a trace. * and his bunch will try to purge history, like the ancient kings did. We have much to fight for. We need to get them to play their hand early.