A visibly shaken and angry Senator Elizabeth Warren just spoke in-front of #SCOTUS. @TheNationalNews pic.twitter.com/KzQ2Z0Lg3b
— Willy Lowry (@willy_lowry) May 3, 2022
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which helps candidates running for state legislatures, said its web traffic jumped 1,200% after the draft was leakedhttps://t.co/7je32HPzuQ via @bill_allison
— Mario Parker (@MarioDParker) May 3, 2022
The draft opinion suggests the court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. While confirming its authenticity, Chief Justice John Roberts said the leaked draft doesn't represent the court's final decision. https://t.co/4bsYvSUYbt
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 3, 2022
Everyone—esp journalists—need to keep these points in mind as they read & describe poll results. https://t.co/TYqBA25zI7
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) May 3, 2022
The US is not divided on the issue of abortion.
Only 19% of US Americans support a ban on abortion and the percentage has been fairly consistent for decades.https://t.co/CUtTD6ZNyc pic.twitter.com/HBPndqAGjX
— Jeremiah Lee (@JeremiahLee) May 3, 2022
LOL — WE LIED! (We’re Repubs, it’s our brand)
How Trump's three appointed SCOTUS justices — Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, & Neil Gorsuch — discussed Roe v Wade and abortion precedent during their Senate confirmation hearings. pic.twitter.com/InQfLA3S64
— The Recount (@therecount) May 3, 2022
We need Democrats on every news channel across the country talking about abortion rights like this. pic.twitter.com/5fnhf5XdFz
— Charles DeLoach (@DeLoach_NC) May 3, 2022
In the US there have been 41 bombings of abortion clinics, and another 173 arsons.
11 total people have been murdered in 7 separate attacks on abortion clinics. There have also been 17 attempted murders.
To my knowledge, there are zero cases of pro-choice bombings or murders. https://t.co/GBj2fD9LY8— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) May 3, 2022
Remembering Dr. George Tiller today, who preformed abortions on women in the absolute most dire circumstances, whose murder I covered in Kansas in 2009 when he was shot in the head by an while serving as an usher AT CHURCH. https://t.co/Ugp5ot1W60
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) May 3, 2022
It turns out that I have a hard time forgiving and forgetting a pack of self-righteous, angry, and ignorant fanatics who cursed at me and my now-wife and called us murderers over and over again. For months.
You see, after we got engaged but well before the wedding, my wife became pregnant. And at about the worst possible time – she was in her senior year of undergrad and applying to med school.
We were young, broke, and too proud to ask for help.
Planned Parenthood, when we finally called, gave us very detailed instructions for arrival. Guarded lot across the street, please don’t rise to the protestors’ bait, don’t bring much because airport-type security. (1990s version).
Sure enough, walking that gauntlet was very unpleasant at the first http://visit.to Planned Parenthood. And the second. And the sixth. And, well, all of them really.
But it wasn’t like we had a lot of choices but Planned Parenthood.
Nobody else provided prenatal care we could afford.
(Our daughter turns 25 in a couple of months.) /fin
This @RuthMarcus theory suggests that a goodly number of Republicans knew what was going down.
Which, if true, suggests today's focus on the leak is pure cover-up. https://t.co/xkklC1U5Oa
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 3, 2022
This is the last tweet I am making about the topic: as much as one dislikes American conservatives, the way they react to defeats and failures is.. work harder, whereas on the left, you can get 10,000 retweets on something a 5 years old should be ashamed of. https://t.co/fItJLF8XOq
— Alex Hazanov (@AlexHazanov) May 3, 2022
Patricia Kayden
When they vote, the majority of White men and women vote for Republicans. Republicans have made it very cheat that they are forced birthers. No one should be surprised that a Conservative-heavy SCOTUS is now overturning Roe. Obergefell is next.
Brachiator
What a bunch of bare faced liars.
I have no words for these vile wretches.
And my language is deliberately mild.
satby
They obviously lied at their confirmation hearings, but were confirmed anyway. No one was fooled. They were installed on party line votes, except for our old friend houseboat Joe, who voted for all but the handmaiden. Perjury charges to impeach are vaporware unless this leads to a majority D senate.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m so horrified over this, but it’s not a surprise. It’s exactly what we said would happen.
We’re somewhere on the Dordogne River. We had lunch yesterday with four elderly, jolly Brits. Who laughed and asked us how “Sleepy Joe” was doing. To my surprise, I was offended not only by the appellation but also that a foreigner had the gall to use it to my face.
We’re home late Saturday, when I’ll be able to be on line for discussions. Right now, I mostly enjoy reading the threads that mock people like Madison Cawthorne.
SiubhanDuinne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Enjoy those last few days of your trip! I’m looking forward to your return.
R-Jud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Assuming they were English Brits, right? Living here in the West Midlands I seem to be caught between older folks parroting Sun/Daily Mail horseshit like “Sleepy Joe” and people my own age or younger who are convinced Bernie would somehow magically be doing better if he were in office. I change the subject now because I don’t think giving in to the urge to shriek AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH FUCK AAAAAAAAAGH in their faces would win me many friends.
opiejeanne
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Tories?
How rude.
Searcher
@opiejeanne: How long into a conversation is it socially appropriate to wait before letting people know that you are an ill-informed asshole whose opinions should be ignored?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Searcher: The old guy said “Sleepy Joe, that’s what they call him.” I said, “They are wrong.” Then I launched into praise for Biden. Then eventually conceded Biden was “honorable.” We haven’t sat with them since.
Anyway
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Did you ask them how glorious Brexit was proceeding under FlobaBob? Grrrr. Gall of the Brits with their ongoing self-inflicted disaster to jeer at POTUS…bastards.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Funny, I didn’t see Bernie wagging his finger today. I guess he suddenly got camera shy.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
mrmoshpotato
@Anyway:
That would shut them up.
mrmoshpotato
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
Still too busy pouting about getting beaten like a rented mule – twice.
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David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
I’m watching Morning Joe and they say Rick Scott’s office sent out a talking point for all republicans to use, it reads “the republican position is to be compassionate on abortion” (no joke).
Nothing says compassion like no exception for rape, incest, and life threatening ectopic pregnancies.
mrmoshpotato
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Robin Williams on George W Bush being a “compassionate conservative” said it was like “a Volvo with a gun rack.”
Kay
There were 4 candidates running in the GOP primary and the Trump backyard/Stop The Steal Rally candidate won.
So that’s best case for Marcy Kaptur.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
BTW – Liz Warren can go fuck herself. Her performative rage has gotten stale and accomplishes nothing.
She took her shots at Hill, and was not only a big girl, but also was in a position to know the damage she was doing.
Kay
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
It also (weirdly) says Republicans are not against mammograms. That’s, um, good I suppose. Is there some wacko section of the Right that wants to ban mammograms? Who asked this question he’s answering?
Tony Jay
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
English? Elderly? Holidaying along the Dordogne?
My preternatural powers of discernment suggest you were sitting with a troop of very comfortably off Telegraph/Daily Mail reading, Home Counties dwelling, boarding school educated, Monarchy loving yah-yahs who’ve never felt the need to generate their own informed opinions about something as irrelevant as politics when a handful of cocktail evening bon-mots will usually suffice to raise a brandy-fuelled chuckle from their local Conservative MP.
Every one of them a Tory voter who thinks Flobalob is a cheeky little scamp who can nevertheless be trusted to keep their taxes low and their rural enclaves Schwartzerfrei.
Such wonderful people. I can only apologise on behalf of the country that hatched them.
zhena gogolia
@Tony Jay: Haha!
Peale
@Kay: since the compromise about the health of mother and rape are out the window, he’s got to say something indicting that they care about women’s health. Yeah, they’ll be policing a lot of OB/GYNs. But just the OB part. The GYN part can stay.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I was talking to my mother last night and she was going on about this thing – turns out that when my aunt had a miscarriage the “Prolife” assholes consider that an abortion and were harassing her. I’ve got to say I am really shocked that’s not brought up more in this debate. Knowning the press they probably think that’s “impolite” to show Conservatives being vile low lives.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Tony Jay:
I note that local Tories are begging constituents to not blame them for what happens at Westminster.
Nicole
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Technically, it is. A miscarriage is, in medical terms, a “spontaneous abortion.” Kay has been beating this drum for years; that the GOP banning the blanket term “abortion” is going to have all kinds of consequences for women’s health. Plenty of women start spontaneous abortions and then go in for the medical one to finish it to save them from other conditions like, oh, infection, bleeding to death. You can bet that won’t be an option in some states going forward.
Peale
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: yep. They act like miscarriages and stillbirths were something invented to allow women to get elective abortions. And those are the people who will be setting the new rules in many states.
lowtechcyclist
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
You got the receipts on this? Because I was today years old when I first heard anything about this.
Peale
@Nicole: but you can still get a mammogram. if you survive the miscarriage and subsequent criminal probe, later in life you can still get a mammogram. So they aren’t 100% against women’s health.
Kay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
The miscarriage issue will become bigger and bigger as more states ban abortion. There are a lot of miscarriages and a lot of them require medical intervention:
11 weeks pregnant, has a miscarriage, but it’s incomplete. Can’t get care in a Texas emergency room – no one will touch it with the 6 week abortion ban- has now spent a week trying to receive medical care for a miscarriage. The risk is infection where she could die, but there’s a secondary risk- if it isn’t treated she may not be able to have children at all.
Abortion aside, you’re taking a risk if you’re pregnant in one of these states. If something goes wrong you aren’t going to be able to get medical care. One woman was told to fly to Colorado immediately, which she had to do.
Lapassionara
I have not had the heart to read the actual draft opinion, but from the news reports, it appears that SCOTUS is going to enshrine Catholic doctrine, re the beginning of life, into law. I think it is time to make sure we have no more Opus Dei types in positions of power.
RedDirtGirl
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: Warren wasn’t a senator during the Thomas hearings.
lowtechcyclist
@RedDirtGirl: I figured he meant ‘Hill’ as short for ‘Hillary.’ But if so, I’ll be damned if I know what he’s talking about.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Kay: Yes, I was thinking the same thing, this has to be done ASAP. All those Great and Good from the Right kind of families who think it don’t matter, they can just fly to Canada when their dad knocks them up, aren’t getting that with miscarriage they won’t have that long.
KSinMA
@Kay:
I heard someone last night on TV talking about a woman’s right to choose, and it sounded so wrong and irrelevant. It’s a woman’s right to medical care, dammit!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Yes, “Pronouncements of the Witch Hunter General” as a bases of law in the 21st Century. Lovely. I think Alito secretly wants to be a Dominican Fair turned inquisitor in 13th Century France.
Tony Jay
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
Damned right they are.
The proxy war being waged within the Tory Party on behalf of its donor/owner factions has seen Flobalob’s formerly Teflon-coated hide stripped away by a steady stream of leaks and scandals to reveal the slimy truth beneath the Media personae.
He’s tried to choke off the threat to his position with lunatic schemes to buy (temporary) loyalty from far-Right MPs and a campaign to sabotage the electability arguments of his potential rivals, but all that’s done is ramp up the war of attrition against him to heights not even the stalwart arse-lickers of the Torygraph and BBC can reach.
So local Tories are looking around at the devastation this has wrought to the reputation of the Conservative Party and hoping they can gull enough voters into differentiating between ‘friendly neighbourhood local Conservatives’ and ‘Westminster Tories’, like there’s really a sliver of a difference between the local constituency set and the shower of greedy wankers they support for election once every five years.
I foresee a mixed bag of results, with the odd bloodbath, a lot of constituencies tottering on the edge of changing hands by a few votes and a ton of protest votes from Right and Left that will leave the Tories vainly claiming that it’s not a total wipeout, Labour falsely arguing that they never really expected to make really huge gains, and everyone else getting roundly ignored by our shite political Media.
Flobalob is still doomed, though.
Anne Laurie
Many low-income women (especially women of color) depend on Planned Parenthood for mammograms. What Scott is telling his fellow GOP Death Cultists to say is ‘We don’t specifically care about your post-menopausal health, we just refuse to allow the existence of the one organization that’s offering this help.’
Soprano2
Fuck them. My first question for any Republican who claims to have this position would be “How is it compassionate to force a 13-year-old incest victim to bear the baby of her rapist?” “How is it compassionate to force a woman to go through 9 months of pregnancy by her rapist, making her think about him every day?” Fuck them, they see pregnant women as incubators, nothing more. I just heard on NPR that they are also saying they don’t want to go after birth control, which is another fucking lie. There was a woman high up in HHS in the Trump administration who was against all forms of hormonal birth control, and they approved of her! Just stop the fucking lying about your position on these things, Republicans – tell us what you intend to try to do to us. The lying on that side is an epidemic now. The press should just assume that they’re lying when they say things like that, but of course they won’t, they’ll nod and smile as if the person is telling the truth.
Soprano2
@Kay: Romania, they’re going to try to turn their states into Romania under Ceausescu. Exams to prove you aren’t pregnant, people to police you. It’s a horror show for women and women’s health.
Kay you’re right, people have no idea of the ramifications of this type of decision. It’s tentacles will snake through all kinds of law. I read on Twitter that they already have a plan to do the same thing to gay marriage – after the Roe decision is released, the Texas AG will declare that Texas no longer believes it is bound by Obergefell, and will tell all county clerks to stop issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. They want to get that to the Supreme Court, where they will rule in the same manner as they did on Roe.
Feathers
@Kay: Saw a Twitter ob/gyn say that the rate of ectopic pregnancies is 3% of pregnancies, 10% of women 15-44 become pregnant each year, 200,000 deaths.
My sad assumption is that the rabid forced birthers have been allowed to create the no life of the mother exemptions so that more centrist Republicans will be able to offer this up as a concession, which their media lackies will be able to present as the new normal and morally correct position.
Soprano2
@Anne Laurie: So, will they quit trying to defund PP if it can no longer perform abortions? What would be the point?
debbie
@Brachiator:
I await charges of perjury. //
Dee Lurker
@Lapassionara: We are getting Catholic doctrine on a deeper level. The Founding Fathers have been turned into the fathers of the church, the Constitution is scripture, and SCOTUS has become the magisterium. Originalism is Latin Rite theology on the political scale.
debbie
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
Don’t leave out “opportunity.”
Anne Laurie
Of course not, because once they’ve gotten their hands on that lever, any form of ‘planning for parenthood’ is de facto murder, under the aegis of Opus Dei Jeebus.
Women need to be subservient, workers need to be desperate, and the cruelty is the point.
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
No.
Planned Parenthood was on the Wrong Side, and must be punished
ETA: And what AL said.
debbie
@Lapassionara:
I will be interested in comparing it to the final version. Will they be bold enough to leave words like “abortionists” and “egregious” in or will someone manage to temper the language. Seeing Alito as the ravening dog I now do, I’m not so sure.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@RedDirtGirl:
Talking about Hillary.
MisterDancer
Any watering-down will piss off their footsoldiers to a fare-thee-well. This Draft is such rich red meat, it’s hard to imagine how they’ll pull back the language without at least some backlash from their side — much less watering down actual impacts.
If the Right was the source of the leak, they may not have thought this through — but that’s utterly par for the course.
Peale
@Feathers: Maybe they’ll set aside money to build a memorial wall for all the good women who did what God wants them to do and die young. And another wall celebrating all the miracle births of babies who were still born and weren’t aborted but whom got restarted their heartbeats at the last minute. A wall of miraculous births. Too bad that God judged you to be wanting and undeserving of a miracle.
debbie
@MisterDancer:
Agreed. All this fake outrage has become a bit much.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Yes exactly. Once they are threw with the current list they will just make shit up just to have an excuse to attack everyone around them, heck, they are almost there with the way Q-anon’s baby molesting space reptiles is being mainstreamed by the Right.
Feathers
@Peale: I remember when I started seeing pushback on women getting abortions because their pregnancies would kill them. Then I recalled Gianna Beretta Molla, canonized by Pope John Paul II after dying of the cancer she refused to have treated while pregnant. You can feel she made the right choice, while also recognizing that we now have a significant portion of the population demanding that all American women be legally held to a behavior standard worthy of Catholic sainthood.This really is the whole game isn’t it.
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jonas
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That was pretty cheeky. Given who their current prime minister is, no Brit has *any* standing whatsoever right now to poke fun at the US president.
lowtechcyclist
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: So let’s see some for-instances. If you’re gonna talk trash, back it up.
schrodingers_cat
@Patricia Kayden: They get their feelings hurt if you point that out. Stop they say we are the good ones, we are allies.
Miss Bianca
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Did you ask the Brits how they liked Lord Flobalob?
JR in WV
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
Fuck you with a rusty farm implement, and welcome to the pie safe, asshole! Which right-wing pig sty did you grow up in?
stinger
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Sounds like, except for the politics, you are enjoying the trip! We expect at least a week’s worth of On The Road posts when you get back!
Gravenstone
Doubtless the ones who fancy themselves and their property (because you question their capacity to love) immune to breast cancer.