Stephan: If the leaked Alito draft judgment becomes reality, as I think will happen, it will only be the beginning, as this report explains. This decision is but one step on a long-term strategy to increase authoritarian control over citizens. Next, it will be outlawing receiving abortion medications by mail. Do you notice something about these steps? This is all tied to abortion because that issue welds the male-dominant Christians to the corporate fascists; that's what created christofascism. The oligarchs don't care about this issue, but the fundamentalist do, and by indulging them, the rich get the popular backing they want to create law that condones authoritarianism. Add to that gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. etc. This is the deliberate creation of anocracy. They have been at this for years.
Activists march holding portraits of women who died because of the lack of legal right to abortion on International Women’s Day, 8 March, in Los Angeles. Credit: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty
As abortion bans proliferate in states around the US, some state legislatures are likely to go even further than just ending abortion in their jurisdictions – taking aim at the growing numbers of people seeking procedures and medications out of state, experts warn.
If, as the bombshell leak of its private votesuggests, the supreme court weakens or overturns Roe v Wade – the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion – in an upcoming decision on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, states will be left with a confusing patchwork of laws that will probably lead to legal challenges.
A fresh wave of restrictions will probably center around patients who leave their state to obtain legal abortions in other states, or who order medications to manage their abortions at home.
Lawmakers in Missouri weighed legislation early this year that would allow individuals to sue anyone helping a patient cross state lines for […]
They are cowards, all of them. What you do not hear is a plain reading of the 9th and 10th amendments to the constitution. A plain reading would focus the question squarely on why this right is not deligated to the people. You hear nothing because a plain reading calls into question the modern surveillance state and all that goes with it.
They are cowards, all of them. What you do not hear is a plain reading of the 9th and 10th amendments to the constitution. A plain reading would focus the question squarely on why this right is not deligated to the people. You hear nothing because a plain reading calls into question the modern surveillance state and all that goes with it.