Miss. House committee votes to ban most abortions

Margaret Atwood's book "The Handmaids Tale" is
becoming increasingly relevant. This novel presents a
totalitarian theocracy in which "certain" fertile
women are forced to breed children for the state. They are
stripped of all human rights and used as "property."
In light of recent political measures to deny women basic
social, legal & reproductive rights, I would say this book
is prophetic in an Orwellian sense. 

We can and we must stop the onslaught of fundamentalist
repression. It is time for everyone to get  actively involved
before half the US population ends up wearing veils. If I
wrote such a thing a few years ago I would think that I was in
"extremist mode" and now I cannot process the
political madness around me fast enough. I believe this is
similar to what happened in Nazi Germany. -Sane and decent
citizens could not "believe" it was happening,
"couldn't get it" because it was so insane, until it
was too late.
 
I personally am going to get more involved with Code Pink and
there is something every single person who reads DU can do.  I
encourage everyone; especially women who are most directly
impacted by this newest threat to civil liberties, to fight
the attack against Wade vs Roe. 

I am not a political expert and I have a question that someone
might be able to answer for me. If the day comes when George
Bush is impeached, indicted and understood to be the unlawful
president that he is; can his appointments to the Supreme
Court, be challenged?  What legal protections exist to protect
the people against a rogue Supreme Court? By rogue, I mean a
Supreme Court that does not reflect the mainstream of the
American people nor their best interests but instead panders
to special interest groups.

This is my first posting and I wish to thank the brave people
who have created and support DU.

liberty nell