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It appears that the Rethuglicans have now achieved (at least on an intermediate level) one of their most cherished goals on the way to entirely destroying Roe v Wade by essentially making the right to an abortion a State by State issue. Rachel yesterday had an extremely accurate (and disturbing) segment which showed that 18 states now have or and seriously trending to, statutes which severely restrict a woman's right to choose. In fact, the latest one prohibits an abortion after the first 6 WEEKS of pregnancy. All of these statutes clearly violate Roe v Wade, but yet there has been no suit filed against them.
The reason seems to be that pro-choice organizations are afraid that, if this comes to the present USSCt, the Court will take that opportunity to either completely strike down Roe or so severely restrict it that the end result is essentially the same. Therefore, the usual remedy of suing has been taken away, at least until such time as one of the uberConservative Justices can be replaced by a Moderate (no time in the near future). In the meantime, other States dominated by RWingers will now happily try and out-crazy the others by creating more and more onerous restrictions to Roe. In the absence of a lawsuit, these laws, as unconstitutional as they may be, will continue to restrict or eliminate the Right to Choose.
Rachel's question (and mine) is, essentially "what happens now". I personally don't see any way around this mess. The RW fundies and their legislative cronies have essentially checkmated those of us who believe in a woman's right to choose, and have left us with a Hobson's Choice of unprecedented dimensions. Color me depressed.
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