When The Donald stuffed the Supreme (?) Court with his henchmen . . .

• • Neil Gorsuch
• • Brett Kavanaugh (the serial rapist whose multiple crimes and many victims of his crimes were all ignored by the FBI so that the rapist could be made a judge to rule over normal people)
• • Amy Vivian Coney Barrett (the Mormon religious slave who must do whatever her husband and master tells her to do as she goes about ruling over normal people from her ill-gotten Supreme Court seat)

. . . they got together to terminate Roe v Wade—just like they promised The Donald they would, thus completing the secret bargain they made so that The Idiot would recommend them for the Supreme Court in the first place. 

Now they are poised to do the bidding of The Cult Of Trump and strike down the Roe v Wade legislation that elevated all women from the status of farm animals to the status of human beings with free choice.

Skip to the Final Outcome

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, said:

“If the report is accurate, the supreme court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past 50 years – not just on women but on all Americans.

The Republican-appointed justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.

Several of these conservative justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the US Senate, ripped up the constitution and defiled both precedent and the supreme court’s reputation.

I have a solution for this dreadful turn of events.

Have all babies 

born to mothers who wanted a legal abortion 

dropped off on the hoods of cars, 

at the mailboxes or 

on the doorsteps 

of any congress person or judge. 

No note—just a baby 

that the congress person or judge can raise.

The US does not want to treat female human beings honorably? 

Fine. 

You raise and pay for the kid.

From
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/07/enforced-childbirth-is-slavery-margaret-atwood-on-the-right-to-abortion

‘Enforced Childbirth Is Slavery’
Margaret Atwood On The Right To Abortion

The US supreme court draft ruling on abortion is an assault on fundamental individual freedoms. The Handmaid’s Tale author reflects on the issues at stake

Margaret Atwood
Photograph: Derek Shapton/The Guardian

Sat 7 May 2022 02.00 EDT

Nobody likes abortion, even when safe and legal. It’s not what any woman would choose for a happy time on Saturday night. But nobody likes women bleeding to death on the bathroom floor from illegal abortions either. What to do?

Perhaps a different way of approaching the question would be to ask: What kind of country do you want to live in? One in which every individual is free to make decisions concerning his or her health and body, or one in which [the men are] free [but the women are] enslaved?

Women who cannot make their own decisions about whether or not to have babies are enslaved because the state claims ownership of their bodies and the right to dictate the use to which their bodies must be put. The only similar circumstance for men is conscription into an army. In both cases there is risk to the individual’s life, but an army conscript is at least provided with food, clothing, and lodging. Even criminals in prisons have a right to those things. If the state is mandating enforced childbirth, why should it not 

• • pay for prenatal care
• • pay for the birth itself
• • pay for postnatal care and – for babies who are not sold off to richer families
• • pay for the cost of bringing up the child?

And if the state is very fond of babies, why not honour the women who have the most babies by respecting them and lifting them out of poverty? If women are providing a needed service to the state – albeit against their wills – surely they should be paid for their labour. If the goal is more babies, I am sure many women would oblige if properly recompensed. Otherwise, they are inclined to follow the natural law: placental mammals will abort in the face of resource scarcity.

Demonstrators protest against the draft abortion ruling
outside the US supreme court in Washington.
Photograph: Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

But I doubt that the state is willing to go so far as to provide the needed resources. Instead, it just wants to reinforce the usual cheap trick: force women to have babies, and then make them pay. And pay. And pay. As I said, slavery.

If one chooses to have a baby, that is of course a different matter. The baby is a gift, given by life itself. But to be a gift a thing must be freely given and freely received. A gift can also be rejected. A gift that cannot be rejected is not a gift, but a symptom of tyranny.

We say that women “give birth.” And mothers who have chosen to be mothers do give birth, and feel it as a gift. But if they have not chosen, birth is not a gift they give; it is an extortion from them against their wills.

No one is forcing women to have abortions. No one either should force them to undergo childbirth. 

[If the state] enforces childbirth, at least call that enforcing by what it is: Slavery. 

Slavery 
The claim to own and control
another’s body,
and to profit by that claim.

This is an edited extract from
Burning Questions
by Margaret Atwood,
published by Chatto & Windus.

June 25, 2022
This Just In

Well the three crooked Trump appointees to the supreme (?) court did what they promised The Donald they would do. 

Amy Vivian Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh

THEY TRASHED ROE VS. WADE. 

Women are reduced to being farm animals again. 

“All men are created equal” has been thrown out by the crooked Trump operatives he appointed to the supreme (?) court. 

FORCED CHILDBIRTH has been returned to “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Our country cannot function with a corrupt supreme court that follows the orders of the deposed maniac Donald Trump.

We need to hold recall elections AT ONCE to rid our supreme court

of these three dreadful Trump appointees. If there’s a rule standing in the way of removing these corrupt people, remove the rule!

A position with this much power CAN NO LONGER BE A LIFETIME APPOINTMENT. A procedure for removing corrupt supreme (?) court justices must be initiated AT ONCE.

June 27, 2022

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Calls For Supreme Court Justices To Be Impeached

From

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-supreme-court-justices-impeach-kavanaugh-gorsuch-thomas

we read

The congresswoman says all three lied under oath to Congress about their views on Roe v. Wade.



Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins abortion-rights activists
in front of the supreme court building.
Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Mon 27 Jun 2022 10.58 EDT
First published on Mon 27 Jun 2022 09.17 EDT

Political pressure is mounting on Joe Biden to take more action to protect abortion rights across the US as firebrand New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for supreme court justices to be impeached for misleading statements about their views on Roe v Wade.

Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks took aim at justices Amy Vivian Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.

• • They were appointed by former president Donald Trump and had signaled that they would not reverse the supreme court’s landmark 1973 decision in Roe v Wade during confirmation hearings as well as in meetings with senators.
• • On Friday, Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch formed part of the conservative majority which in effect ended legal access to abortion in most states, and Ocasio-Cortez said “they set a torch to it—there must be consequences” for that.
• • The court lost legitimacy with the Roe reversal.
• • “They lied.” “I believe lying under oath is an impeachable offense … and I believe that this is something that should be very seriously considered.”
• • Ocasio-Cortez added that standing idly by “sends a blaring signal to all future nominees that they can now lie to duly elected members of the United States Senate in order to secure confirmations and seats on the supreme court”.
• • Justice Clarence Thomas must also be impeached because his wife, Ginni emailed 29 Republican lawmakers in Arizona as she tried to help undermine Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election. 
• • Further, Thomas has not recused himself from election-related cases which is unethical and probably illegal, drawing criticism.
• • “I believe that not recusing from cases that one clearly has family members involved in with very deep violations of conflict of interest are also impeachable offenses,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

House members can impeach a judge
with a simple majority vote.
But to be removed from office a justice
would need to be convicted
by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.

Biden’s Democratic party controls the House with a clear majority, but its standing in the Senate is much more tenuous. The Senate is split 50-50, though Biden’s vice-president, Kamala Harris, can serve as a tiebreaker but only for votes that can be carried by a simple majority.

Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez urged Biden to personally take steps to address what she called the supreme court’s “crisis of legitimacy.” “President Biden must address that,” she said.

Ocasio-Cortez suggested Biden could order the opening up of abortion clinics on federal lands in states where terminating pregnancies has been outlawed “to help people access the healthcare services they need”, echoing an idea from the Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren.

In states where abortion is no longer allowed because of Friday’s ruling, residents who need to terminate pregnancies must now travel hundreds of miles – if not more – to get access to the procedure.

Many US corporate giants have taken steps to provide support and financial assistance to employees seeking abortions in states where that is outlawed in most cases. But such measures won’t help millions of people who need abortions but are not employed by a large international or national company.

That’s where an order from Biden to allow abortion on federal lands in anti-abortion rights states would help.

###