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Overturning Roe v. Wade is "payback for Me Too"

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Margaret Atwood spoke to a packed room at the Santa Fe Literary Festival

Supreme Court’s plans to overturn Roe v Wade are ‘payback for MeToo’​

Margaret Atwood delivered a searing indictment of Republicans working to ban abortion at the Santa Fe Literary Festival on Saturday.

“As far as I’m concerned, this is payback for MeToo,” she said, adding that banning abortion would create an environment in which “you get to accuse people of having abortions” as a form of blackmail. Anyone can approach a woman of child-bearing age and say: “You had one, and then where’s my $10,000?”, Atwood added.

The two-time Booker Prize winner and author of The Handmaid’s Tale was given a standing ovation by attendees when she took the stage for a conversation moderated by literary editor and long-time friend Amy Grace Loyd.

Atwood spoke at length about the leaked memo that suggested the US Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that enshrined constitutional protections for women seeking abortion.

Taking aim at conservative justices and lawmakers who describe themselves as constitutional originalists in an effort to defend overturning such legislation, Atwood said: “If you take the original constitution [as it is and apply it], a lot of people are going to lose their rights, including all women.”
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Feb 2020 - 182 House Republicans voted against equal rights for women. It was a vote on extending the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the states. The bill was passed by Congress in 1971 but has had 'problems' since then.

Why are so many who call themselves "conservative" against equal rights for women? Equal rights which would allow each woman to make her own decision in regards to a pregnancy.
 
ERA time was up years ago and still doesn't have enough states to make it an ammendment
 
Somerville said:
Margaret Atwood spoke to a packed room at the Santa Fe Literary Festival


Feb 2020 - 182 House Republicans voted against equal rights for women. It was a vote on extending the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the states. The bill was passed by Congress in 1971 but has had 'problems' since then.

Why are so many who call themselves "conservative" against equal rights for women? Equal rights which would allow each woman to make her own decision in regards to a pregnancy.
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How long has the ERA been around? Women today probably have way more freedoms and rights than the ERA ever granted, anyway.
 
Bullseye said:
How long has the ERA been around?
Women today probably have way more freedoms
and rights than the ERA ever granted, anyway.
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the sad thing is...
you do not realize how wildly unreasonable,
illogical, and inappropriate that statement in...
sad Sad SAD...
 
"payback for Me Too"

The crazy things the left imagines continues to fester in their tiny brains.
 
Actually , it was first proposed in 1923.


First proposed by the National Woman's political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.

Then on March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification.

Almost 50 years later , Republicans still turned down Equal Rights for women … and some dare to call the Republican Party the party of family values….???
 
Somerville said:
Margaret Atwood spoke to a packed room at the Santa Fe Literary Festival


Feb 2020 - 182 House Republicans voted against equal rights for women. It was a vote on extending the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the states. The bill was passed by Congress in 1971 but has had 'problems' since then.

Why are so many who call themselves "conservative" against equal rights for women? Equal rights which would allow each woman to make her own decision in regards to a pregnancy.
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The Republican Taliban will never get over the fact they have to depend of women to procreate. That's why they want to control them. No one fears women more than today's Republican. **** them alls.
 
minnie616 said:
Actually , it was first proposed in 1923.


First proposed by the National Woman's political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.

Then on March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification.

Almost 50 years later , Republicans still turned down Equal Rights for women … and some dare to call the Republican Party the party of family values….???
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The only thing Republicans value is their own power and greed. And that's not even enough. They don't just need to defeat their political enemies like all women - they need to crush them. Republicans love crushing American's spirit.

It's no wonder NO ONE here as ever admitted to me that they vote republican. A couple of mod here I know even lie about it.
 
This is a stupid take. Both the Pro Life movement and the Originalist movement predate Me Too by decades.
 
Somerville said:
Margaret Atwood spoke to a packed room at the Santa Fe Literary Festival
Feb 2020 - 182 House Republicans voted against equal rights for women. It was a vote on extending the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the states. The bill was passed by Congress in 1971 but has had 'problems' since then.
Why are so many who call themselves "conservative" against equal rights for women? Equal rights which would allow each woman to make her own decision in regards to a pregnancy.
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Schism said:
"payback for Me Too"

The crazy things the left imagines continues to fester in their tiny brains.
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True

The Right has been packing the SC for the last few years. Now, what did send the Right into a culture war was the gay marriage decision by the SC. The Evangelical Right lost their collective minds over that one.
 
lurchadams said:
The Republican Taliban will never get over the fact they have to depend of women to procreate. That's why they want to control them. No one fears women more than today's Republican. **** them alls.
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Actually they do fear something more than an empowered wonan.. Nothing frightens a Republican more than a black American in line on polling day.
 
yankintx said:
True The Right has been packing the SC for the last few years. Now, what did send the Right into a culture war was the gay marriage decision by the SC. The Evangelical Right lost their collective minds over that one.
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Conservatives lost their collective minds in 1948 when Truman desegregated the military
Then again in 1954 when schools desegregated
They all lost their minds again in 1955 when Ms Parks wouldn't sit at the back of the bus and in 1960 when MLK started the bus boycott and it worked and people just sat where there was a seat.
Then again they lost their minds in 1964 with the anti-discrimination law in the work place.
More minds were lost in 1965 with the voting rights act.
Even more minds were lost in 1973 with legalized abortion
More minds lost with legalized same sex marriage.

Is it any wonder why very little of what conservatives say makes any sense.
 
weaver2 said:
Conservatives lost their collective minds in 1948 when Truman desegregated the military
Then again in 1954 when schools desegregated
They all lost their minds again in 1955 when Ms Parks wouldn't sit at the back of the bus and in 1960 when MLK started the bus boycott and it worked and people just sat where there was a seat.
Then again they lost their minds in 1964 with the anti-discrimination law in the work place.
More minds were lost in 1965 with the voting rights act.
Even more minds were lost in 1973 with legalized abortion
More minds lost with legalized same sex marriage.

Is it any wonder why very little of what conservatives say makes any sense.
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I believe the gay marriage decision being made by SC was what really resulted in the current culture war.
 
yankintx said:
I believe the gay marriage decision being made by SC was what really resulted in the current culture war.
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Did they ever have any minds to lose is the real question. They appear to be missing the part of the brain responsible for intelligent thought and are operating only with the amygdala's raw emotion.
 
Somerville said:
Margaret Atwood spoke to a packed room at the Santa Fe Literary Festival


Feb 2020 - 182 House Republicans voted against equal rights for women. It was a vote on extending the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the states. The bill was passed by Congress in 1971 but has had 'problems' since then.

Why are so many who call themselves "conservative" against equal rights for women?
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Perhaps it's because women already have equal rights.

Somerville said:
Equal rights which would allow each woman to make her own decision in regards to a pregnancy.
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There's nothing in the ERA that is remotely related to abortion.
 
Tlrmln said:
Perhaps it's because women already have equal rights.



There's nothing in the ERA that is remotely related to abortion.
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Equal rights to bodily autonomy.
Equal rights for a well known safe procedure would be equal rights.

Some states want to prevent women from having a procedure that is safer for her before viability than pregnancy or childbirth.
 
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minnie616 said:
Equal rights to bodily autonomy.
Equal rights for a well known safe procedure would be equal rights.

Some states want to prevent women from having a procedure that is safer for her before viability than pregnancy or childbirth.
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That has nothing to do with the ERA. The ERA has nothing to do with abortion.

And if abortion is banned, it will be banned equally for men and women.
 
Tlrmln said:
That has nothing to do with the ERA. The ERA has nothing to do with abortion.

And if abortion is banned, it will be banned equally for men and women.
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And many more men would be responsible for child support.
With all the treads that have already been posted by men on this very forum I can just hear the screeching now.

I am very blessed my children and grandchildren will plenty of money in their trust funds they can travel out of the country for abortion if the wanted too.

Hopefully our country is not stupid enough to ban abortions.

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Women who want to risk a pregnancy to become mothers are true hero’s .

It should be their choice not a requirement by law.
 
minnie616 said:
And many more men would be responsible for child support.
With all the treads that have already been posted by men on this very forum I can just hear the screeching now.

I am very blessed my children and grandchildren will plenty of money in their trust funds they can travel out of the country for abortion if the wanted too.

Hopefully our country is not stupid enough to ban abortions.

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Women who want to risk a pregnancy to become mothers are true hero’s .

It should be their choice not a requirement by law.
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I agree with everything said, 1000%

It still has nothing to do with ERA.
 
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