Midterms go to the party out of power, but as Roe decision shows, Democrats aren’t actually in power – By kos (Daily Kos) / June 24, 2022
It doesn’t matter what state you live in: Our federal protections to the right abortion care, and the underpinning right to privacy that ensures access to contraception, marriage equality, and other civil rights—and even interracial marriage—is now gone.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy already said he’ll be pushing for a national abortion ban. (Well, he says 15-week ban today, but we know they all lie, and what their true intentions are.)
Some lawmakers are trying to argue that the decision merely shifts the decision to the states, and that the majority decision explicitly claimed no other privacy rights were targeted. But Justice Clarence Thomas was very explicit in his terrifying concurrence about what their end goal was, and heck, McCarthy is certainly not pretending otherwise. But we don’t need to, because we feel it viscerally, in our bones. We know what Republicans seek; they haven’t been shy about it, even if too many liberals refused to accept that reality. Look at how outraged many liberals were at my book The American Taliban, which predicted exactly what we’re seeing today. None of those criticisms aged well.
