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Proto_Spark posted...

The bigger problem was that we've had like 50 years to actually enshrine abortion into law, and we refused to acknowledge it.

Roe v. Wade had legitimate issues even when it was active (RBG famously wrote an op-ed criticizing the decision) but instead of actually trying to solve the problem, we just stood with an already kind of flaky Supreme Court decision while the republicans would scream "we're gonna stack the Bench and overturn it" and we just went "yeah okay" and are acting upset now that they've finally done it.

We could have protected this beyond Roe v. Wade, and we didn't bother, because for some reason nobody wants to do anything in the US government unless its actively making your life worse.

Spot on. Also, a lot of us who are pro-choice have been screaming this for fucking decades. Even though I didnt want to see it overturned, I knew it would be eventually, and anyone sufficiently knowledgeable and objective would agree that it should be overturned, and hoped against hope that the people in power would do the right thing and enshrine it in law before the inevitable.

However, it was a great wedge issue to motivate voters and get donations, so we saw nothing, and here we are.