Yeah, it’s great being chattel again… Here is a great peek into a possible horrible future for people everywhere. The radical right will NOT stop at revoking abortion, abortion isn’t even the issue, they want the total subjugation of women in particular and the destruction of trans and queer people. The real goal is to strip women of autonomy and return women to second class citizens under the thumb of men. The end. They don’t care about life, they care about controlling women’s bodies, legislating against trans people, revoking marriage equality and punishing anyone who isn’t a white male, in order to preserve a theocratic white male power structure. This SCROTUS decision also ignores religious beliefs other than radical Christian White Nationalism.
Right now literal actual democracy is under threat as authoritarianism has entirely taken over one of our only two parties in the US and a party that has been leveraging it’s power for decades, disenfranchising black and brown people, and gutting access to the ballot box.
I swiped this depressing little possible timeline from a Politco article.
‘There will be civil war.’
Linda Hirshman is the author of The Color Of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation, a book about past racial slavery, and Red State, a Substack novel about the coming gender slavery. Read more at LindaHirshman.Substack.com.
The next 10 years will be marked by heightened attempts to restrict abortion not only in red states but also nationwide — until these tensions come to a boiling point. Here is just one possible scenario.
After the Republicans take Congress in 2022 and then the White House in 2024, Congress will pass and the president will sign the federal Fugitive Woman Act, making it a crime to travel or abet travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
In Planned Parenthood v. Eastman, a 2025 decision upholding the Fugitive Woman Act, the Supreme Court will reason that the fetus is a person under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, with an explicit right to life that outweighs any born person’s implied constitutional right to travel. After the re-election of the Republican president in 2028, his new attorney general will step up the enforcement of the law.
By 2032, the FBI will be watching the few remaining abortion clinics in blue states and monitoring the mail and internet activity of all reproductive-age women, their friends and physicians, in the United States for evidence that they plan to travel to obtain an abortion. If they make it to the blue states, federal authorities will arrest them. They will be tried by federal commissioners in summary proceedings and renditioned to the red states they left for trial under the many state laws making abortion or attempted abortion criminal, including referral to pregnancy centers. Their babies, when born, will be subject to local laws compelling adoption in cases of child endangerment.
Four years of women being dragged, screaming, from blue-state abortion providers for rendition to their red-state homes and the stories of fugitive women running from the adoption states with their newborns will fuel the rise of a third party, the Restore Democracy Party. Some left-wing pundits will predict that the RDP may even win a majority of the popular vote in the coming election. If RDP wins, the Republicans will predict, there will be civil war.
If you want to, and CAN donate to pro-democracy and reproductive rights organizations here are a few links. And don’t underestimate voting locally and supporting Dems in your are! If you don’t know who is running a simple search will tell you which district you are in and who is running in your area. And VOTE!! Midterms are coming!!! If you aren’t registered it’s usually pretty easy. It’s a short little form:
Vote Save America has lots of ways to volunteer and donate!
Candidates:
Abortion Funds: These help people who need reproductive care travel for such care, and to help search your state+abortion funds and you’ll find one in your area.
Keep Our Clinics Helps keep clinics open in states where people can still access reproductive health care.