Breaking... US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade

Gay marriage next, just watch them.

USA going backwards rapidly.

Ughhhh... what an idiotic decision, but I'm not surprised, this is the same country that put a fat, orange IMBECILE in charge.

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid country and people.

Saw this on twitter that sums up that warped country:

"Damn girl is that a concealed handgun in your waistband or are you just being forced by the state to carry an unplanned pregnancy to term"

The growth of White Christian Fundamentalism in the #United States has led to this. The GOP has spent 50yrs on overturning Roe and now they will have to deal with the fallout.

The discordance between the constitutional protection afforded gun rights yesterday, with the stripping away of women's rights today is massive. It is a curious and abhorrent legalist stance IMO.

The intertwining of Politics & Religion has never ended well and SCOTUS has overturned a woman's Right To Choose and it obliterates the doctrine of unenumerated rights as it previously stood until today. Alito's rejoinder that this decision only applies to the specific case at hand? Is utter bullshít, contraception, same sex relationships, and every other right not explicitly recognised in the constitution? They are all now at grievous risk IMO.

This is a moment of Schism and National Peril for the USA. It is not hyperbole to treat this as step 1 in a theological coup. Margaret Atwood was prophetic and I am appalled at the jurisprudence outlined in the decision itself.

Ah here we go.

When will anyone learn, abortion bans do no stop abortions. They never did. Head in the sand stuff.

Overturning Roe vs Wade bans legal safe abortions. Women will die. I'm devastated

The ruling being overturned means that individual states can make their own laws in relation to abortion restrictions. I'd say easily two-thirds of Americans (and a good portion of people posting on here) don't actually understand what overturning the ruling means.

But it hasn't.

It's not remotely the same.

And you know it.

Most state governors and legislators have already stated they're calling special sessions to activate their trigger laws and such. In south carolina it will be illegal after today to have an abortion after a heartbeat is detected, in addition to myriad other TRAP laws designed to filibuster a woman from seeking an abortion in time.

Certainly for poor women. The rich will always get what they need, but other rights must be in question now as well.

I don't think it will embolden anti abortion activists here given the legitimacy of the widely supported referendum. It's a shame their constitution doesn't allow for simple referendums like ours, as there would be a majority in favour of abortion there as well.

Another stellar piece of ammunition for the Democrats to expand the court to 13 justices, and sooner rather than later.