I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

IllinoisLady

Just would sortta love it if someone walked up to Barrettt and slapped that smile on her face about 2 miles away.

Nsbrown54

Let’s hope more companies follow Dicks example.

IllinoisLady

Cardplayer ( despite the fact that it is a business ) I do love that people will come forward and attempt whatever help they feel they can. Dick's sporting goodds ( I'd have to look it all up ) have been stepping up to the plate on other things. I think it had to do with gun sales. There are things that can be done. I bear in mind Hillary Clinton's platform motto when she ran for president -- Stronger Together and we are -- and I definitely think women will mose assuredely stand together now.

I also hope this will inspire having more judges put on the court. I don't know if it is possible to get it done, but if so -- it should happen. I do think the 'liberties' coming out of the court are very bad and two in row -- open carry in New York and now Roe v Wade gone is a prelude for what will come if Reps. were to get the Senate back or the House. In fact -- to be safe we need to occupy as many seats as we can.

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

If you all remember Justice Sotomayor said, if the court did away with Roe V Wade, the court likely would not survive the stench. I hope she is right. It is not a Supreme Court any longer. They are getting close to being a Kangaroo Court.

Trishyla

I've been so depressed today, until I remembered the words of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor. "I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant".

Together, we women are that giant. And now we get to work.

Trish

Miriandra

We need a Bodily Autonomy bill: "No person shall be forced or compelled to allow their tissues and organs to be used against their wishes for the sustenance and maintenance of another person's life."

ChiSandy

From your lips (fingertips), Trish to God's ears (eyes). 5 of the 6 Justices who voted to overturn Roe (or at least uphold MS' 15-week ban) have never been pregnant, never gone through labor & delivery, never had to deal with postpartum depression or scramble to find affordable (or any) child care. The sixth had abundant financial resources, excellent prenatal, L&D, and postnatal care for her 5 pregnancies--as well as a "mini-village" of her cult community to help with all seven kids, including the one with Down syndrome.

"Just have the baby--after all, there's always adoption?" That assumes the mother can survive childbirth--increasingly less and less of a given in the U.S. "Abortion stops a beating heart" (actually not a heart but electrical signals)? Well, too often now childbirth stops an actually, fully-formed beating heart...and sometimes two.

This SCOTUS makes me sick.

ChiSandy

And the definition of the start of pregnancy as the date of the last period? Insane and unscientific. Even if intercourse takes place during a period, ovulation has been over for two weeks (or longer) and the next egg won't be released for another 10 days--as anyone here who has been a slave to their thermometers while trying to GET pregnant can attest. In TX, a woman deemed "6 weeks pregnant" is in reality no more than 4 WEEKS pregnant. Those states like OK forbidding abortion at any time following fertilization don't know their asses from their elbows, and certainly flunked both Health Ed. and arithmetic. Pregnancies should be considered to have begun no earlier than the expected date of the first MISSED period.

Betrayal

Having witnessed as a student and then as a new graduate nurse the results of illegal abortions, this is a sad day for women in the US. Many of these women did not survive, if they did they may have become sterile as a result of sepsis and where the abortion attempt failed, the interrupted pregnancies that did make it to term did not produce "normal" children. Interruption of a pregnancy at critical phases of fetal development results in medical/physical challenges for the surviving child. As a pediatrics nurse, I saw first hand the abuse suffered by unwanted children and it was worse for children born with some form of physical defect, autism, etc.

Any one who has done genealogy on their families has surely discovered that their female relatives had a child every year, limited resources, and given that some married at 15, by the time they were 40 they had had nearly 25 pregnancies with childhood deaths related to childhood diseases. The 1900 and 1910 census sadly report the number of children born and the number of child surviving and it is not unusual to read "12 born and 4 surviving". Can you imagine the lives these women had and this is what they want us to go back to? I know in my family tree there were women who died young during childbirth and usually the child died as well. So where are these so-called Christians when these children need to be fed, clothed, loved and nurtured?

To say I am disgusted with this decision is a minor response. We need to vote these clowns out of office and makes some changes in the structure of the Supreme Court that offers equity to the majority in decisions like this. Their first target is women, who is next?

Nsbrown54

Nsbrown54

GOP compare with the Taliban

Miriandra

Why should we expect anything less from a SCOTUS with two documented sexual predators on the bench? So disgusting.

IllinoisLady

AOC Blasts Republican Hypocrites After Roe Is Overturned

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called out the hypocrisy of pro-life Republicans while blaming GOP Senators for Roe being overturned.
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IllinoisLady

The Untold Spiritual and Emotional Damage of the Supreme Court Overturning Roe

Republicans decry the accusation that they are waging a war on women, but not only have they been doing so for decades, but they are now destroying the moral fiber of freedom.
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ruthbru

They should never be called 'pro-life' because they are NOT. They are 'pro-birth', after that you are on your own.

IllinoisLady

So true Ruth.

I hope this is true as well.

Trishyla

Unless they are anti-war, anti-deathpenalty and in favor of financial support for all children, they are not pro-life, they're simply anti-women.

ruthbru

ruthbru

Miriandra

Guns are sexy, but a uterus is scary. That's why.

ruthbru

We just made a donation to help raise the funds to move the only abortion provider in North Dakota across the river to Minnesota; as did my son & his typically apolitical girlfriend. She doesn't much follow politics very much so it surprised (and pleased) me to hear how upset and horrified she is by this decision. Perhaps this will wake up a whole generation, and that would be a very good thing.

exbrnxgrl

Thank you to the governors of California, Oregon, and Washington. It is beyond upsetting that you need to do this but thank you.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/wa-other-west-coast-states-form-pact-committing-to-protect-abortion-access/

WC3

This is so upsetting that Roe vs. Wade has been overturned. I doubt I would personally ever have had an abortion in the event of an unwanted viable pregnancy, even if I had gotten pregnant when I was in my teens when I had zero interest in babies and motherhood and an outright aversion to it, but I had the federally protected right to make that decision myself. I did not have to worry that I would not have the right to protect my own life when threatened by pregnancy or pregnancy related complications or that I would be forced to carry a dead or non-viable fetus to term, or that I would be charged with murder or imprisoned for miscarrying. Some of the abortion bans that recently came into effect after Roe vs. Wade was overturned have exceptions to protect the life of the mother but we all know that the bans themselves, grey areas, ambiguity, differing medical opinions and fear of prosecution will limit access to life saving care regardless, and women will die because of it. What if a woman discovers she's pregnant when she needs to start hormone therapy for estrogen receptor positive cancer? Will she be forced to carry the pregnancy and go without treatment for at least 9 months? Will she be imprisoned if she starts treatment anyway and miscarries or gives birth to a baby with birth defects? Most of us who had ER+ cancer won't die tomorrow, next week or next month if we delay hormone treatment but delaying it can still cost us our lives years down the line and pregnancy increases the risk of metastasis. I live in a liberal state and my state leaders have committed themselves to protecting women's reproductive rights, but that's not good enough in a country that supposedly prides itself on freedom.

DivineMrsM

I have nothing to add to the outrage expressed on this thread other than that I agree 100% with all the opinions expressed here.

DivineMrsM

“Don't call it a ban. Call it what it is: the criminalization of abortion and the removal of basic human rights.“

ruthbru

Amen! We also wouldn't let mentally ill people armed with assault rifles to murder them in their classrooms.

IllinoisLady

Divine, Leila Cohan spells it out well. The only other thing I would say is that good luck to the court is they wish to stay alive as they are. They have made the best expand the court now, arguement ever.