OnAbortion

Context: OnFeminism

FarRight are succeeding pushing abortion rights backwards.

June 24, supreme court struck down Roe vs Wade

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-summary-supreme-court

Good overview of how they did it : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/05/us-far-right-abortion-laws-europe-roe-v-wade

And more on MitchMcConell's long game: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/15/us-supreme-court-mitch-mcconell-conservative-judges-democracy

Pro-abortion campaigners starting to ask what went wrong, and what to do next : https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abject-failure-abortion-rights-movement-fractures-over-post-roe-future-2022-06-24/

UmairHaque : https://eand.co/the-end-of-roe-is-a-bullet-to-the-heart-of-american-democracy-d69dfe5eb62b

GlennGreenwald points out that it's not "undemocratic" for the supreme court to throw it back to state politicians. And that, indeed, demands for more "democratic control" over the issue of abortion lead to ending Roe v. Wade

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-irrational-misguided-discourse

See also :

• Misogyny