Why It’s Normal to Feel Devastated About Roe v Wade
That emotion you’re feeling is grief.
On Friday, June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion nationwide, in a 6–3 decision. The conservative supermajority voted in solidarity to do so, despite all of them having said that Roe is settled case-law when being confirmed.
This is the latest in the right’s campaign of regressive hatred, a campaign they’ve been waging since at least 2008 when Mitch McConnell publicly stated that they would work to make Obama a one-term president. They have been working tirelessly since then, stacking statehouses and Gerrymandering every state that they can get their grubby mitts on into oblivion to ensure that they will always have power despite their shrinking relevance in public opinion.
They stonewalled Obama’s Supreme Court pick for almost a year in the hopes that a Republican would win the presidency, and when that happened they rammed through three justices in four years. This includes Amy Coney Barrett, who was pushed through over a handful of months before the 2020 election, an egregious move from a party without any ethics or morals.
This has been their endgame: pack SCOTUS with conservatives, undo Roe and a bunch of other rulings that enabled us…
