Protests against decision to overturn Roe v. Wade at State House this evening

Plenty of people with experience as clerks, reporters, etc, for the Court are suggesting it's actually being leaked by an anti-abortion staffer. The theory is that Roberts may have been working on a more moderate position (severe restrictions instead of a full dissolution) since he isn't on the draft, and may have been getting too close to convincing one of the other conservative judges - leaving the court with a 4-2-3 split instead of a full 6-3.

By leaking the draft, any change in anyone's vote at this point will look like the judge caved to public pressure instead of following the legal reasoning, even if the reasoning in this case is extremely specious.

Where is the full-throated support for the welfare of children forced to be born to parents who don't want them? Where is the funding for childcare, early education, parental leave, and contraception to keep people out of poverty? Where is the full-throated support for reducing guns on our streets, for improving sex education, and for making sure our children have a safe community to grow up in? Where is the full-throated support for protecting women who's pregnancies will kill them, or who would be forced to carry an nonviable fetus to term, resulting in long-term mental anguish?

Pro-choice supporters want to drastically reduce the number of abortions that happen each year by addressing the issues that lead to abortions being needed in the first place, but ultimately believes in the personal freedom a woman has for her body. Why do we not see "pro-life" activists and politicians screaming for more funding for childcare, medical care, and for social programs to help children? Where are the calls for reducing gun violence, for expanding sex education and mental healthcare, and for guaranteed parental leave? Republicans pushing for the banning of abortion aren't "pro-life", they're just "pro-fetus".

Nobody wants an abortion. Its a horrifying choice to need to make, but sometimes, it needs to be made. Lets keep the personal autonomy for women enshrined in law while tackling the issues that make women seek out abortions in the first place.

if the right to lifers gave a shit, they'd support a system to make sure these children could thrive. and yet they don't, because they don't actually give a shit about the prospects of that child. they only want control over others.

and on religious grounds, i have never understood why this is any of the believers' concern. if this is a sin, then let your god punish me. the hubris shown by the religious right - that they are god's avatars on earth - is beyond insane.

Cool, Rob, let me know when you've also marched and donated and pressured your lawmakers into making blood donation mandatory, making organ donation non-optional, etc. 113,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ right now in this country but unless somebody specifically opts in to a program and their next of kin doesn't throw a fit, perfectly useful and good organs go into the ground every single day. And those are DEAD PEOPLE.

This country, except for the issue of abortion, seems to have no issue with upholding the right to bodily autonomy. Nobody has the right to force another person to bodily support them. Including fetuses.