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For all of us who knew this was inevitable the day Hillary Clinton lost the election, it's still just as mean and ugly as we knew it would be.
And, yes, it's the misogyny, stupid. As the Rude Pundit pointed out, all of these state laws criminalizing reproductive outcomes are enacted by state legislatures that are predominantly male. And, as he put it,"In no state with over 40% representation from women is the right to abortion threatened."
So yeah, the only thing to do now is get more Democratic women elected, from the bottom to the top. Will that even work? Maybe, maybe not, nothing is guaranteed, except that if we don't do it the loss of the rest of the rights we gained in the twentieth century is as much of a foregone conclusion as was the loss of Roe the minute they called the 2016 election for Fergus.
So far, Gavin Reptile has been making all of the right noises, and this morning I read that with all of the trigger laws and likely bans in red states coming up, California will likely have 30% of all US abortion clinics despite having something like 12% of the overall population.
Which won't do fuck-all for the poor women who can't afford to travel in the best of times, let alone when they all of the sudden have time bombs ticking in their uteruses.
So make a toast (and a donation) to the abortion funds that are stepping up to facilitate those poor women getting where they need to be to get the care they need, that have seen this coming and have been preparing for it since at least 2016 when the inevitability of this outcome was decided, and really, some for much longer.
Thank you again for the podcast. Briana is almost out of the meds they sent her home from the hospital with, and today she found out that the urgent care place won't help her with them. We need some radical (read that sane) changes in US health care policy.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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