The Day When Women Become Second-Class Citizens

We knew this day was coming.

We knew it when Anthony Kennedy retired from the bench, leaving his own abortion ruling Casey vulnerable to the Far Right candidate - that drunkard Kavanaugh - willing to overturn it and Roe V. Wade.

We knew it when Justice Ginsburg died back in 2020, allowing Mitch McConnell - that hypocrite - and trump to put onto the Supreme Court a radical Far Right candidate to skew the Court so far against abortion rights that overturning Roe was pretty much a done deal.

We knew it when Justice Scalia died back in 2016, when Obama was still in office and still President of the United States able to nominate a replacement - Center-Left - Justice, only for McConnell to stonewall Obama's nomination in the hopes that a Republican win that November would give him the chance to replace Scalia with another Far Right Justice.

We knew it when donald motherfucking trump won the Electoral College in 2016, in spite of losing the Popular Vote, all because enough Democratic voters refused to support Hillary out of partisan spite (yes, to every so-called Leftist or Progressive who thought Hillary Clinton didn't deserve your vote, go fuck yourselves, this IS on you as much as the goddamned Far Right wingnuts). When Hillary got only 65.8 million votes whereas Biden got 81.2 million votes four years later, where the hell were those 15 million or so voters when the nation needed them???

We knew it the minute all those Red states began passing laws specifically designed to attack Roe and to criminalize abortion, laws so harsh that even rational exceptions - for rape, incest, or the health risks to the mother - were denied. We knew it every time a Republican moronically claimed pregnancies were safe, or that rape wasn't a problem, just so they could believe their lies that abortion was a greater sin.

We knew it the minute Red states like Georgia and Texas and Missouri passed anti-abortion bills that sought to punish women - and anyone who helped them - who fled their states to get abortions in states where it's still legal. We knew it when Texas added an insane bounty law incentivizing the wingnuts of their state to hunt down and accuse others of committing abortions or helping women get an abortion. By making it financially safe to accuse others without punishment for being wrong, that law is bound to get innocent women - and any of their friends and family members - accused of something they didn't do and forced to pay out of their own pockets fines that they cannot afford. Can YOU afford paying $10,000 to some lying Bible-thumping wingnut accusing YOU of helping a friend with an abortion for a pregnancy they never had?

We should have known all this since 1992, when Pat Buchanan went before the nationally televised Republican Convention and declared a "Culture War," beginning the partisan divide between Red State and Blue State, the purge of Moderates from a Republican Party to ensure only the pure anti-abortion racist sexist haters were the ones in charge. 

We knew this, we've always known this: This was never about the fetus, this was always about punishing the women. This was always about the power to control what women can do for themselves, not just their health care choices but their rights to vote, their rights to earn fair wages, hell their right to have a career and live their own lives.

What is about to happen now - as Politico leaks the rough draft of Justice Alito's decision to overturn Roe and Casey and apparently a number of other civil rights victories over the decades - is that we are going to watch this conservative Supreme Court deny women any rights they have under the 9th and 14th Amendments. We are going to see not only the legal excuse to deny women their right to an abortion to save their own lives, we are going to see the devaluation of women, period.

Let me point this out: Alito is crafting a decision that will protect the rights of the Proud Boys gun nut ready to shoot up the nearest Planned Parenthood clinic, but if you're a 13-year-old girl that's just been raped by your college-age cousin you are shit out of luck.

Welcome to the Republican Wingnut Utopia of Women Suffering in Hell.

This is why I've been screaming for the past TWENTY YEARS to my fellow Americans to FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN. 

This day was coming.

And now millions of women are going to pay for the wingnuts' cruelty.