An important article here. [Gifted, no paywall. NYTimes]: The Untold Story of the Network That Took Down Roe v. Wade
A conservative Christian coalition’s plan to end the federal right to abortion began just days after Trump’s 2016 election. By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
I was in law school when Samuel Alito was nominated to SCOTUS. One of my law professors knew him personally. Outside of class, he tried to reassure me that Alito was a "good" conservative, and not one of those crazy right-wing ideologues.
Mark Silk notes that the "pro-life" movement is in political retreat following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision and the chaos that decision has ushered in. The "pro-life" movement now finds itself "at serious odds with Americans' historical deference to diversity of belief."
Silk concludes that “the pro-life movement has pushed the political envelope too far.”
“This is a fight for freedom, the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one’s own body & not have their government tell them what they’re supposed to do,” the VP said.
"The modern #GOP is supposed to be pro-family, pro-tax-cuts and anti-“waste, fraud and abuse.” So why are #Republican#senators trying to tank a bill that is all three?
"the legislation would improve the living standards of 16 million low-income #kids and lift 400,000 #children out of poverty in its first year. It would increase incentives for research and development. And the icing on the cake: The whole thing would be paid for by curbing a pandemic-era #tax break that has produced an avalanche of fraudulent claims...
“[...] in all cases, anti-abortion movements exhibit an incremental strategy: they pursue a particular legal change, but, once they obtain it, the conflict is not settled. On the contrary, each victory galvanizes pro-life activists to raise the threshold and engage in new battles.”
In 2022, we had planned on a long road trip to visit relatives in NC. Then the #Dobbs decision convinced us not to travel through anti-choice states. So we spent $4,239.09 in NM and AZ instead, and we had the time of our lives.
Trump thinks he's pulled a fast one and staked out a mythic "middle ground" on abortion that will have both diehard MAGA "pro-lifers" and "moderates" queasy about a national ban on abortion happy. Paul Waldman disagrees:
"Dobbs has been a catastrophe, Donald Trump is why, and if he is elected again, abortion rights in America are only headed in one direction. There is no middle."
Putting aside the callousness of the denial of #BodilyAutonomy to women [yeah. I know. Hard to do.] But seriously, #Trump is basically in #racist#blackface in this video. WTAF?
Jason Sattler says that if you don't want to read the 920-page prescription of policies Project 2025 informs us Republicans will enact if given control of the federal government again, then read just one sentence, which sums up the whole project:
"'But the Dobbs decision is just the beginning.'
That would be the governing philosophy of a second Trump regime."