Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect access to reproductive health care services two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. For almost 50 years, that decision protected the constitutional right of women to make health care decisions without the interference of the state. Without that protection, the president noted, states across the country have outlawed abortion, threatening the lives and health, as well as the economic security, of women across the country, especially women of color, poor women, and rural women.
I hope women heed President Biden's call to action, to vote to codify Roe as federal law. Marching is good; it isn't enough. Petitions are good; they aren't enough. We all—and especially women—must VOTE.
And now today the Six Traitor Injustices in the Supreme Court are doing the Confederacy's bidding by declaring war on all the "substantive due process" cases giving rights through the Fourteenth Amendment.
President Biden is doing the right thing and speaking to the urgency of resisting the Trump Republican onslaught. Yet even left-leaning media is carrying a drumbeat that Democrats are impatient that Mr. Biden isn’t fighting back. Professor Richardson’s reporting what he is actually doing is a great service. Let’s hold our media accountable when it drives a false narrative that can discourage potential Democratic voters. And let’s get the vote out!
This move by the originalists on the Supreme Court could be a blessing. I hope it is a wake up call to all women and men. If the Supreme Court is allowed to control our bodies our health and our medical decisions we are doomed as a nation. The court has been packed by the Radical Right that is determined to take away women’s right to determine their healthcare. We are not slaves. Each woman is the only one who can make the decision what is best for their body and soul.
Joe Biden is the most underrated president we have had since Harry Truman. Eventually, people will come to see Biden's greatness, and the breadth of his accomplishments, despite the carping and complaining of ill-mannered millennials and self-involved Leftists. Compared with The Other Guy, Joe Biden is royalty, without the snark or the attitude.
For a Black man to claim there is no such thing as 'substantive due process' as supposed 'Originalist' Thomas wrote in Dobbs reversing Roe, contrary to the 'Originalist' intent of the 14th Amendment as reflected by Heather's sentence below, is baffling. Simply incomprehensible. What does this say about the evolution of America in the last 150 years? Heather: "But there was no way northern members of Congress were going to permit southern lawmakers, who only months before had been shooting at U.S. soldiers, to discriminate against the very men who had fought to save the United States."
Well described; but remember: it was the withdrawal of federal troops from the south that began the rapid passage of Jim Crow laws.....etc just as Chief Justice Roberts and his infamous opinion in Shelby County ended pre-clearance by the Federal District CT in DC or the Justice Dept from giving prior approval before any change in policy, procedure or law could be implemented or passed pertaining to elections in those Southern States and 4 counties in CA, 2 townships in Michigan . Immediately after pre-clearance (Section 4 of the 1965 VRA was found unconstitutional as an impermissible interference with the sovereignty of states by Roberts, Thomas etc.... 1688 voting precincts closed, strict voter ID laws passed, 30 million voters purged (and this week in Florida I understand some 600,000 more registered voters were purged... That is why CONGRESS must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act: to set FEDERAL standards for times, places and manner of elections to save our democracy from autocratic undemocratic rule in at least 19 states who are backing this attack on voting rights. Roberts worked for Ronald Reagan and attacked voting rights and he continues his march back to preCivil War thinking. I think this is racism at its worst and if Senators Manchin and Sinema don't wake up to this fact, perhaps Ms Collins and Ms Murkowski will do the right thing and end the filibuster against H. R. 5746.
Please, please do not make this yet another burden on women. Yes, women are rising up and, yes, women can elect representatives who will codify rights. But, please, what about men? Bodily autonomy is a fundamental right to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That should matter to all people, regardless of gender. Men, join the fight, damn it. The women in your life and in your country are counting on you.
Any conservative, EVER, who again utters that duplicitous, BS-laden line decrying "legislating from the bench," must be from-heretofore shouted down with "Dobbs vs. Jackson." EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
I think Biden is correct that the women of America could carry the mid-term election for candidates in favor of a woman's right to choose. It should be a highly unifying issue across the political spectrum for women. Toss in a healthy dose of men on the same side and it should make for a very strong platform. This executive branch needs to get out on the campaign train on behalf of pro-choice Senate and House candidates. They shouldn't wait for September-October. The message needs to be heard, long and loud, as often as possible. Here's hoping for a more energetic center/left electorate.
It has long been incomprehensible to me that women have supported, with their votes, a misogynist barbarian like Trump but we will have to accept that people vote against their self interests for many reasons. One would hope they would not vote against their children's and grandchildren's interests so the coming election needs to be framed as a choice between democracy stretching forward into our future versus an autocratic takeover of our government and way of life. I found this article chillingly worrisome and worth publicizing as broadly as possible: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/
Eventually maybe we will expand and this protection under law to animals in factory farms and other confined environments. Animal cruelty is widely unpopular, even among those who eat meat. Yet, a very small minority is forcing their will on the rest of us, to exploit animals in the most horrific ways imaginable, for profit, in secrecy, and with impunity (with assistance actually in the form of our tax dollars). We've got to end speciesism: "the assumption of human superiority leading to the exploitation of animals."They are anatomically nearly identical to us (on the inside) with all the same body systems. Just because the cannot speak doesn't mean they don't feel or have the same right to bodily autonomy. So while we're fighting this great fight for equality and justice, could we please bring the animals along with us?
The Biden Administration is getting a lot of criticism on the Supreme Courts rollback. But I agree that it up to U.S. citizens to take action at the ballot box. Otherwise, overturning Roe v Wade is just the beginning.
Even at my age, it amazes me how recent some of these civil right enactments are. Laws that I'm sure a lot of our young people take for granted. Todays youth do not have the luxury of ignorance on these matters. We need thousands more Heather Cox Richardson's in our schools. Thanks for the education about the fourteenth amendment.
I hope women heed President Biden's call to action, to vote to codify Roe as federal law. Marching is good; it isn't enough. Petitions are good; they aren't enough. We all—and especially women—must VOTE.
And now today the Six Traitor Injustices in the Supreme Court are doing the Confederacy's bidding by declaring war on all the "substantive due process" cases giving rights through the Fourteenth Amendment.
President Biden is doing the right thing and speaking to the urgency of resisting the Trump Republican onslaught. Yet even left-leaning media is carrying a drumbeat that Democrats are impatient that Mr. Biden isn’t fighting back. Professor Richardson’s reporting what he is actually doing is a great service. Let’s hold our media accountable when it drives a false narrative that can discourage potential Democratic voters. And let’s get the vote out!
This move by the originalists on the Supreme Court could be a blessing. I hope it is a wake up call to all women and men. If the Supreme Court is allowed to control our bodies our health and our medical decisions we are doomed as a nation. The court has been packed by the Radical Right that is determined to take away women’s right to determine their healthcare. We are not slaves. Each woman is the only one who can make the decision what is best for their body and soul.
Joe Biden is the most underrated president we have had since Harry Truman. Eventually, people will come to see Biden's greatness, and the breadth of his accomplishments, despite the carping and complaining of ill-mannered millennials and self-involved Leftists. Compared with The Other Guy, Joe Biden is royalty, without the snark or the attitude.
For a Black man to claim there is no such thing as 'substantive due process' as supposed 'Originalist' Thomas wrote in Dobbs reversing Roe, contrary to the 'Originalist' intent of the 14th Amendment as reflected by Heather's sentence below, is baffling. Simply incomprehensible. What does this say about the evolution of America in the last 150 years? Heather: "But there was no way northern members of Congress were going to permit southern lawmakers, who only months before had been shooting at U.S. soldiers, to discriminate against the very men who had fought to save the United States."
Well described; but remember: it was the withdrawal of federal troops from the south that began the rapid passage of Jim Crow laws.....etc just as Chief Justice Roberts and his infamous opinion in Shelby County ended pre-clearance by the Federal District CT in DC or the Justice Dept from giving prior approval before any change in policy, procedure or law could be implemented or passed pertaining to elections in those Southern States and 4 counties in CA, 2 townships in Michigan . Immediately after pre-clearance (Section 4 of the 1965 VRA was found unconstitutional as an impermissible interference with the sovereignty of states by Roberts, Thomas etc.... 1688 voting precincts closed, strict voter ID laws passed, 30 million voters purged (and this week in Florida I understand some 600,000 more registered voters were purged... That is why CONGRESS must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act: to set FEDERAL standards for times, places and manner of elections to save our democracy from autocratic undemocratic rule in at least 19 states who are backing this attack on voting rights. Roberts worked for Ronald Reagan and attacked voting rights and he continues his march back to preCivil War thinking. I think this is racism at its worst and if Senators Manchin and Sinema don't wake up to this fact, perhaps Ms Collins and Ms Murkowski will do the right thing and end the filibuster against H. R. 5746.
Please, please do not make this yet another burden on women. Yes, women are rising up and, yes, women can elect representatives who will codify rights. But, please, what about men? Bodily autonomy is a fundamental right to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That should matter to all people, regardless of gender. Men, join the fight, damn it. The women in your life and in your country are counting on you.
Any conservative, EVER, who again utters that duplicitous, BS-laden line decrying "legislating from the bench," must be from-heretofore shouted down with "Dobbs vs. Jackson." EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
I think Biden is correct that the women of America could carry the mid-term election for candidates in favor of a woman's right to choose. It should be a highly unifying issue across the political spectrum for women. Toss in a healthy dose of men on the same side and it should make for a very strong platform. This executive branch needs to get out on the campaign train on behalf of pro-choice Senate and House candidates. They shouldn't wait for September-October. The message needs to be heard, long and loud, as often as possible. Here's hoping for a more energetic center/left electorate.
It has long been incomprehensible to me that women have supported, with their votes, a misogynist barbarian like Trump but we will have to accept that people vote against their self interests for many reasons. One would hope they would not vote against their children's and grandchildren's interests so the coming election needs to be framed as a choice between democracy stretching forward into our future versus an autocratic takeover of our government and way of life. I found this article chillingly worrisome and worth publicizing as broadly as possible: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/
Eventually maybe we will expand and this protection under law to animals in factory farms and other confined environments. Animal cruelty is widely unpopular, even among those who eat meat. Yet, a very small minority is forcing their will on the rest of us, to exploit animals in the most horrific ways imaginable, for profit, in secrecy, and with impunity (with assistance actually in the form of our tax dollars). We've got to end speciesism: "the assumption of human superiority leading to the exploitation of animals."They are anatomically nearly identical to us (on the inside) with all the same body systems. Just because the cannot speak doesn't mean they don't feel or have the same right to bodily autonomy. So while we're fighting this great fight for equality and justice, could we please bring the animals along with us?
The Biden Administration is getting a lot of criticism on the Supreme Courts rollback. But I agree that it up to U.S. citizens to take action at the ballot box. Otherwise, overturning Roe v Wade is just the beginning.
Even at my age, it amazes me how recent some of these civil right enactments are. Laws that I'm sure a lot of our young people take for granted. Todays youth do not have the luxury of ignorance on these matters. We need thousands more Heather Cox Richardson's in our schools. Thanks for the education about the fourteenth amendment.
The cleanliness of the President's work here is like bright sunlight.
The midterm election in November will determine the fate of this country, and no, I don’t think that I’m overstating things.
We need the ERA. We need the ERA. We need the ERA. We need the ERA.