The anti-abortion forces are already salivating at the prospect of outlawing the procedure nationwide. While it's unlikely that they will succeed, it's not an impossibility. Along with working to elect as many Democrats as possible to state and federal government, there are other things blue state residents can do preserve abortion rights and help women who need them.
With the outlawing of abortion in half the country, the people who are picketing clinics in those states will, at least in a few cases, shift their efforts to states where it's still legal. One way to counter this is to join a group that provides clinic defense. This can consist of escorting women from their cars or the bus stop to the clinic doors, protecting them from protestors who might go beyond just screaming at them to assaulting them to prevent them from entering. Some clinic defenders could be tasked with screaming right back at the anti-abortion terrorists.
Another option is "daisy-chaining" women who are being transported in a modern "underground railroad" from states where abortion is illegal to states where they can obtain one. The people transporting them within these states are taking a great risk; you can help mitigate that by volunteering to pick up these women at the border of your own state. You won't be taking a risk (other than being attacked by anti-abortion fanatics), and the other person now has plausible deniability, because for all they know, they simply dropped the woman off at the state border to go camping.
We expected this for a long time, some of us on the day Donald Trump was elected, others when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. For others, it didn't sink in until the Dobbs draft was released, and for many, it may not have sunk in even now. But some people have been preparing for this day, and those of us with a desire for justice and concern for the oppressed should consider joining them. Our descendants will remember us for how we met this challenge, as we remember those who came before us who fought against slavery and oppression.
“For Mother’s Day, my mom would like the activism of her youth not to be for nothing.“
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@Jake966 but apparently you care more about potential life that's not even conscious or sentient more than you do about actual life? Do you hate women that much? You're fine with them baring the child of rape or incest? Or fine with them carrying s foetus to term if it would kill her, the embryo or both?
@basilfawlty89 life starts at conception , that is a human being in a womb , if she doesn’t want the responsibility of that life then use protection or don’t have sex
@Jake966 how do I care only about myself? I'm not a woman, but I care about women's rights. The US is not a theocracy. The Founding Fathers didn't intend for it to be a theocracy. Are you saying the Founding Fathers were wrong?
@Jake966 that's not made up. That's literally from John Adams. Do you want to tell me you don't know the words of the Founding Fathers, or do you deny that John Adams was a Founding Father?
@Jake966 it's literally been recorded in written word. Where you there when Moses held the Ten Commandments. Do you know for sure it said that? Whatever dude.
@Jake966 And if she gets raped or her birth control fails, she was asking for it, right? And bombing brown children in foreign countries because their leader annoys you is just "collateral damage." You're a fucking hypocritical degenerate.
You're also a brainwashed ignoramus. The words "Bible," "Jesus," or "Christianity" are found nowhere in the Constitution. The U.S. was founded on enlightenment principles. And back in Bible days, they didn't know about sperm and egg cells or "conception." Genesis 2:7 says life begins with the first breath. Numbers 5:11-31 actually gives instructions on how to induce abortion.
Selling Christians on the lie that the Bible is against abortion is one of the most successful advertising campaigns of all time.
@Jake966 exactly. But it has been proven America was not intended to be a theocracy. Hence you can't use the Bible for your arguments against the legality of abortion.
