Sadly Wife Dorn, you are wrong. Women of "every other state" no longer have access to the health care that should be their inalieanble right. Or should I say, was their inalieanable right. Prior to yesterday's abhorrent decision/ploy, several states had already banned or restricted access to abortion with more triggering that ban as a result of the Supreme Court ruling. So much so that if your son were to rape your grandaughter and she became pregnant, she would have to carry the fetus to term. Or if your husband raped your daughter. Ponder that. Atrocious. Appalling. Fact."So-called trigger laws are legal measures to ban or restrict abortions that would take effect automatically or with little effort upon Roe v. Wade’s overturn.Thirteen states — Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming — enacted trigger laws ahead of Friday’s ruling, according to the Guttmacher Institute"Loraine is right to a certain extent. Trump tipped the scale to the extreme right. But Clarence Thomas has been on the bench since 1991 after having been nominated by Bush Senior. He is a nasty piece of work as is his wife, a white woman. Thomas is black. Ginny Thomas has recently been found to have participated in the Jan 6 attempt to overthrow the election results. I mention their race because the Constitution has given them the right to marry. To Clare's point, in his decision yesterday Thomas also took aim at contraceptive rights, the rights to privacy in one's bedroom and the legality of gay marriage. What it seems he missed in his appaling hubris, is that very position may undermine his right to marry his white wife.But Wife Dorn, you are correct each state has the ability to enact laws governing abortion. Tragically, roughly half will now be banning or severely restricitng abortion if they haven't already. My heart aches for American women. Any woman, any person who does not possess the right to control their lives and bodies as they want and/or need. I have lived that life. But make no mistake, this is the tip of an iceberg that has fallen off the shelf and flowing rapidly in the water toward the next target.And if I may, this American trajectory should be seen as the harbinger of what's to come in this country so long as Boris remains in power. It is the identical rhetoric and mindset. We had a wall. You have Rwanda. Get rid of your populist because now you see where it can lead if he's left to rot out what remains of your democracy and innate decency.
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