I just don't have words about this. We are rolling back the clock, which will have devastating consequences for women.

Once again. Relieved to be on this side of the Border. Women in America, my heart is broken for you. Time to march to the Supreme Court and throw coat hangers and blood soaked towels on the steps. You can buy fake blood at special effects places so you can't be charged with using a bio hazard I can only hope that this will be a major wake up call to voters during the midterms. What's next in the cross hairs? Contraception? Gay marriage? The list could be quite long.

"First they came for ....." ".....who will be left to speak for me..."

It is a sad and terrifying time.

For decades, the extreme anti-abortion people have been one issue voters. Even if they disliked everything else about a candidate, they held their nose and voted for him/her if they uttered the magic words "pro-life". The other 69% of the country, who does not want Roe overturned when on their merry way, oblivious to the fact that what you take for granted as a right, can be pulled out from under you if you are not vigilant. If this does not inspire that 69% to vote for pro-choice issues and candidates, then I guess we as a country will get what we deserve.

I am reading a book about Abraham Lincoln. He started his career in the Whig party. For many years they had backed the losing candidate in the presidential elections. In the 1848 election, as a US Congressman, he advised his fellow Whigs that, "the Whig party had fought long enough for principle, and should change its motto to success". Perhaps good advice for Democrats today. If you don't get elected, you can't govern and protect the principles for which you stand

You ladies are spot on. We do have consequences in elections and the only reason we don't have the orange thing ruling us now is that sooo many went to vote. We do need that and more now. The Reps. have no shame what-so-ever and haven't for a long time. They don't back off and will fight as dirty as NEEDED -- no holds barred.

I do believe in rule decorum, but I also believe sometimes you actually have to fight fire, WITH more fire. We sit back and let them get anyway with anything. Not only should we do all possible to keep those seated in their seats but to oust as many Reps. as possible and take their seats and keep going until we are rid of this whole group of law-breaking Reps. who would not bat ( and don't ) an eyelash over what they do to us so they can get where they want to go. I'd like to think we can get many Reps. through criminal proceedings for 1/6 but I realize that it may be hard to do.

I'm wondering now -- could we ever get back to a true democracy where the BEST man does and can win and that there will be a peaceful transfer of power and that we could have a Supreme Court that works as should. It is a s**t show right now and no one benefits from that.

Ruth, you are so right and so was Lincoln. It is time for us to get off our morals long enough to see that justice, might, and right still exist when the dust settles from all of this. Tall order -- but the Democrats have had to pick up Reps. pieces for a long time. Time to do a super bang-up job of it this time. Clean fighting be damned. I hope we figure out to do what has to be done and then do it -- no matter what we have to do. Gloves totally off I hope.

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Catholic Nun's Quote on Abortion

A Catholic Nun Perfectly Explains the Major Hypocrisy of the "Pro-Life" Argument

May 17, 2019by ELEANOR SHEEHANFirst Published: February 1, 2017

A Catholic nun's explanation of the term "pro-life" from 2004 is resurfacing — and it's powerful. On PBS's Now With Bill Moyers, Sister Joan Chittister explained why being against abortion doesn't mean you're pro-life.

Here's the full quote:

"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."

Chittister's position is not only informed by her faith, but also her academic experience: she's written over 50 books and has multiple degrees (including a doctorate).

The crux of Chittister's point is that there's a difference between advocating for birth and advocating for that child's entire life. If antiabortion proponents are truly "pro-life," then those same legislators would not argue for defunding programs like those that provide school lunches or health care. Many who oppose abortion also oppose access to contraceptives. Antiabortion congressmen have consistently also advocated for defunding Planned Parenthood, which provides women with birth control options.

Liberals have pointed to Chittister's quote as an argument for the social benefits that Republicans hope to limit without providing feasible options for women if they cannot obtain abortions.

Another thing that just makes my blood boil. Roberts looks at a leak as being such an affront to the court and those who work there every day. I say Roberts giving the Thomass'es a free ride is a big affront to the U.S. and American people at large. I'm not in the least happy with Roberts, but the last line pretty much sums it up.

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The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be powerless spectators, but to become powerful initiators. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience, and we have the power to break the cycle of negativity that is fueling a very dangerous world. It's not only possible, it's why we are here.

Susan L. Taylor