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Short question from someone living in the EU. How is the US currently dealing with the aftermath of Roe vs Wade?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds crazy. I can hardly imagine a scenario like this!

[โ€“] Ozma_of_Oz 3 points 1 year ago

Me either. People around me when the news leaked said both that I was completely overreacting and that the court would never, ever renege on the precedent set. I told them they were wrong. Even my therapist (an old lady) was like "it's just not possible and I think you might be far too anxious about this." Hoo boy. She at least apologized later after every single thing I predicted would happen, happened.

Because truly, the people who have been involved in this activism for decades have always known this right to abortion was tenuous. My state has caught wind of how screwy SCOTUS is right now and has been pushing through many many laws to codify them outside of the supreme court. We just codified the Miranda rights provision as a law. It's crazy so much of our legal protections exist within a structure that's basically been blown apart over the last year. People's right to marry outside of their race and to people of the same sex are in a similar place. States need to get moving to protect their citizens.