This subreddit firmly believes in and stands up for basic human rights. We promote humane, compassionate and social thinking.
It is an objectively true and repeatedly proven fact that allowing people the choice to plan their families, allowing people to have a say in when they get pregnant, how many children they will have, is promotive not only for individual health, wellbeing, social and financial security and safety. It lifts entire communities out of deprivation.
Family planning is an integral and crucial aspect of upward mobility. It affects everything from the ability to get an education to mental and physical health and direct poverty.
As such this subreddit does not allow anti-abortion sentiments. They are abhorrent and inhumane. The belief that people should be downtrodden, unhappy, poor and grow up in misery is unacceptable.
In addition to that: The only sane word to describe those who would subject a 10 year old girl to this abuse, who would refuse her to terminate this pregancy is monstrous. They are monsters. Their rigid, counterfactual beliefs which defy all fact-based reasoning in order to promote an extremist view which brooks no deviation from a hardline stance, which would seek post-hoc justifications for a nonsensical and damaging policy causes harm. It is in no way a moral or defensible position.
Any person with an ounce of empathy and compassion feels anger at this news. Abject disbelief that an extremist, dangerously fundamentalist minority is able to push their vile beliefs onto an entire population.
This subreddit will not allow any defense of these actions, including trying to normalise this great evil through "devil's advocate" style arguments. That means that if you say "Oh, but they really believe that.." you will be banned. There are no legitimate defenses for this and we don't want to hear attempts at them. People are suffering enough without having to be subjected to justifications for monsters.
For those who would say: "But it is not illegal, it has been turned back to states rights where it belongs", you will be banned.
We don't want to hear it.
The morally and legally correct decision of Roe v. Wade which provided a consitutional protection of bodily autonomy was overturned by an extremist, illegitimate Supreme Court and we are not fooled by the argument that "states may now decide" because we know, you know, that this is just the start. They will not stop.
Now that the right of bodily autonomy has been ruled as no longer federally guaranteed they will attempt to illegalise abortion at the federal level.
These extremists, who play Calvinball with law, precedent and procedure, who blatantly interpret the rules as what they want them to mean in the moment to push through their agenda, will enact a federal ban as soon as they can cheat enough in elections to "win" a majority in house and congress. They will uphold a vote to do so, hypocritically declaring that "a democratic, majority decision".
You know it, I know it, they are not as clever as they think they are and are wholly transparent.
Now that there is no longer a federal guarantee for bodily autonomy they will try to take this right away on a nation-wide level.
Normally I'd add a conclusion to a text like this, a plan of action, a way forward. But I am not sure one exists.
As most of you, I am dismayed and shocked at this brazen coup at the highest level of our legal system. What can be done? I do not know.
What I do know is that giving up and giving in is not an option. These fascists are a minority. They are loud, they fight dirty and unfair, they are immoral, they are un-American.
What I know is that it is time for the normal, moral and sane majority of Americans to stop taking this lying down. Let your voices be heard. Stand up for democracy and for what is right.
Because despite these dark days: It is not over yet.
