This is the inside story of how the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — shooting down compromise and testing the boundaries of how the law is decided.
Ok, now what do we do ?
I would think:
- contact your state and local elected official to try to make sure that protections for women are as strong as possible
- if your state is having an referendum on the 2024 ballot, well, you should be helping, right ?
- if you can, send money to elect and re elect dem, from Biden/Congress down to local level (sheriffs - huge !!)
while somehow, dunno how, avoiding money pits like Beto and Amy McGrath
Agree with all points.
As much as I like Beto and McGrath, being from Texas and Kentucky they’re the equivalent of a hail mary pass; incredible if works, but probably won’t and will just turn it over to the other team.
The most important thing we can do is #vote. And for those of us living in extremely blue states, we can make donations to competitive candidates in swing states - even small ones help!
yeah, I agree VOTE and also, we need candidates contesting all seats, but really shouldn’t pour money into things that look like loosers
I guess that is a self fufilling prophecy ? and also it is hard to tell in advance who will win and loose ?
but in 2018/2020 we wasted several hundred million dollars on senate races (in addittion to Beto/AM, Maine, SC and some others) so .
I dunno what to do
Should be a gift article. I strongly recommend reading it because it has a lot of information for how things went down behind the scenes at the Supreme Court.
At the end of the day, we need written legislation protecting abortion rights at the national level. Relying on a single Supreme Court case was a mistake. Without national legislation, what we are seeing in Texas with Kate Cox is only the beginning.
