Friday, June 24, 2022, is a uniquely unhappy, irritating, and disappointing day, however it’s not the day we cease preventing. As coated by my colleague Joan McCarter, conservative zealots on the U.S. Supreme Court docket succeeded of their anti-choice mission to successfully finish federal protections for abortion rights. With the 6-3 resolution in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group overturning Roe v. Wade, greater than 10 states have mechanically banned abortions by way of set off legal guidelines, due to anti-choice lawmakers. These states embody Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Utah.

And, as coated by my colleague Laura Clawson, we all know this isn’t nearly abortion, although abortion entry is (after all) an infinite deal in itself. As Justice Clarence Thomas factors out in his concurring opinion, for instance, the Court docket not solely can however ought to dismantle our rights to contraception and marriage equality. Justices within the dissenting opinion (the three liberals, together with Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan) additionally see this because the attainable subsequent path for the Court docket, although after all, they’re ringing alarm bells out of concern, not pleasure.

And what are folks saying on the web? Let’s dive into what statements officers are sharing, in addition to what of us are sharing by way of solidarity, sources, and mental discourse.   

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