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This Week in the War on Women [1]

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Date: 2023-04-22  

I will write more about the Supreme Court ruling barring the Texas mifepristone decision from going into effect while the appeals process continues, but in light of the ruling I want to talk a bit about the Republican party and the solidification of minority rule in this country.

When the Dobbs decision came down, it not only gave the states power to ban or protect abortion, it guaranteed that the battle was realy going to be fought in the courts, and would likely assure that more cases about abortion would be dicided by SCOTUS, which of course had 6-3 radical conservative, anti-abortion, majority. (I refuse to call any court that continues to allow children to be killed in their schools while opposing abortion pro-life.) The thing is, most Americans, including most Republicans, say in polls that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Yet the Republican party continues to make banning abortion central to their platform.

When a party seeks power while ignoring the majority opinion, they must of course make the majority meaningless and powerless. After 30 years of orchestrating the takeover of SCOTUS and the increasing number of right-wing judges to district and appeals courts, the infrastructure has been in place to fight voting rights; think of everything coming after the 2020 election, with state laws being passed that would allow politicians to overturn election results and the terrorizing of election officials and poll workers. Donald Trump may think he was leading, but his was only the last stage pulling democracy over the cliff.

The war on women IS the war on democracy.

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