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Outside the Supreme Court on the day Roe v Wade is overturned, a blue-haired protester is shouting through a megaphone, “I’m atheist and I’m pro-life!” Dressed in a crop top, a bright blue kerchief and a bucket hat decorated with a badge that reads “They/them”, Anastasia Rogers isn’t your average anti-abortion protester.
“For me, it’s just a human rights issue,” says Rogers, who identifies as non-binary. “Like for me, I’m also plant-based. I have a vegan diet, I advocate for animals, and I just feel like every single being has a right to life, no matter how small they are. And if I think it’s wrong to eat eggs because they kill baby chicks... then why would I not think that it’s wrong to kill a baby human?”
Rogers describes themselves as a 29-year-old, San Francisco-based “member of the LGBT community”. Resting from the hot Washington sun under the shade of a tree outside the Supreme Court, they describe how they were on vacation in Florida when they heard the news about Roe v Wade.
“I actually bought a last-minute flight [to DC] as soon as the decision happened,” they say, adding that they wanted “just to come with my friends, celebrate and support”.
“I think a lot of people think pro-lifers are all far-right, conservative old white guys. And, I mean, I have blue hair, I’m pansexual, I’m intersex, I’m non-binary. I have a lot of very left-leaning beliefs and I feel like I’m pro-life for all of life. I feel like in any situation, my views are that everyone should have the right to live, and to pretty much do whatever they want as long as they’re not harming someone else.”
Rogers is far from the only left-leaning protester out to celebrate the ruling that will now take away American women’s constitutional right to abortion care. Jostling alongside the evangelical Christians and the far-right agitators – such as well-known conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl, who spends his time here shouting at protesting women that they should “go home, back to the kitchen” – is a group of young women from Democrats for Life of America, an anti-abortion group for Democratic voters, whose placards (reading “Pro-life for the whole of life”) are decorated with rainbow flags.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/roe-wade-scotus-protests-abortion-b2109552.html
Rage on, my progressive fellow Soylentils.
EDIT: Most excellent video - the lady nails it perfectly.
https://twitter.com/MechelleChristy/status/1540486945981227009
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @03:09PM (12 children)
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: Fourth January 6 hearing documents fake electors plot and fascist threats against election officials, workers [wsws.org] - Missouri Republican candidate for US Senate and former Navy SEAL releases gun-toting ad urging violence against “RINOs” [wsws.org] - Protests erupt throughout the US in response to Supreme Court decision overturning abortion rights [wsws.org]
TFFI: Coalition of Leftists, Activists, and Unions Bring 20,000 Out for Abortion Rights in NYC [leftvoice.org] - Unions, Left, and Activist Groups in New York City Organize Coalition and March in Response to the Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn Abortion Rights [leftvoice.org] - Trotskyists in France Are Reconstituting a Fighting Revolutionary Left. There Are Important Lessons for the United States [leftvoice.org]
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @03:46PM (1 child)
Do you have a source for the report that came out about hedge fund's illegal stock manipulations? Heard that came out on Friday, timed to get buried by the abortion issue. Can't let Republicans learn how badly they are being fleeced, the sheep might turn on their handlers!
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @04:00PM
Not sure I do, though along those lines the WSWS had an article on the 23rd covering a Roosevelt Institute report.
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: Report points to corporate price gouging amid soaring inflation in US [wsws.org]
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @06:09PM (9 children)
For those that would like to see the rino-hunting ad itself, instead of what talking heads tell you to feel about it -
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bZZ2Y6fAq8o [youtube.com]
It's pretty funny IMHO. Still wouldn't vote for him, but I would like to get one of the permits as a souvenir.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @08:49PM (7 children)
Except for the ideologically based homicidal violence being proposed? I bet you thought the Khymer Rouge were a laugh riot, as well! Or, Third Reich? Haha ha haha! Couldn't stop laughing with that Final Solution! You funny, Mr. Runaway!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @12:27AM (2 children)
Meh. Scream at a Restaurant Customer, Punch a Nazi, Hunt a RINO, Burn down a city. It's all on a spectrum, you might as well have a laugh.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @12:43AM (1 child)
Interesting how the literal death threats are always from GOP politicians. BoTh sIdEs trollololol
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @08:55PM
Quite a few people have died from a single punch. Some have died in fires too. So no, two out of four are killer leftists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @02:19AM
Notice that he wasn't the first person through the door even though he knew the house was empty. Can you say Coward?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 28 2022, @07:25PM (2 children)
I remember when running over protesters was "just a joke bro" too!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @02:48AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27UEb-bDfqE [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2022, @05:12AM
Turns out the fascism is in place, they've simply been waiting to gain enough political power to ram through their final solution.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday July 05 2022, @04:13PM
Might or might not be funnier if I knew what a RINO was.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @03:42PM (1 child)
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC:
US Supreme Court abolishes constitutional right to abortion [wsws.org]
January 6 hearing reveals multiple Republican congressmen sought pardons for participating in Trump’s coup [wsws.org]
Democratic-led Louisiana bans abortion after Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade [wsws.org]
TFFI:
Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade. Organize, Mobilize and Fight Back. [leftvoice.org]
Make It Law! For Free, Safe, and Legal Abortion, on Demand and without Apology [leftvoice.org]
We Need Socialist Feminism. Join Bread & Roses [leftvoice.org]
ISA/Socialist Alternative:
ROE OVERTURNED, TAKE THE STREETS: Build a Mass Movement Against the Right! [socialistalternative.org]
On Juneteenth, Don’t Just Commemorate – Recommit to Mass Revolt Against Racial Oppression! [socialistalternative.org]
Socialist Feminists in New York Sit-In At Chuck Schumer’s Office [socialistalternative.org]
ISA/ROSA International: Hundreds attend Bread & Roses Festival of Socialist Feminism in Dublin [rosainternational.org] - Our Bodies, Our Choice: US Socialist Feminists on the abortion rights struggle [rosainternational.org]
IMT/Socialist Appeal: The 'June Days' of 1848: The volcano of revolution erupts [socialist.net]
Jacobin & DSA: The Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling Yesterday Shows It Isn’t Pro-Life [jacobin.com] - Free abortion, on demand, without apology — May Dispatch [dsausa.org]
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @04:29PM
How many secret children would Herschel Walker have without Roe?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @03:42PM (2 children)
Pretend all you want, haven't seen a single rage post except maybe ari or his clones which don't really count since he's always pissed these days. You however seem to be letting the facts mess up your feelings as you get paddled like a bad bad boy in every discussion ;^)
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @08:05PM (1 child)
Ari is not pissed, just sadly disappointed in America. And I condescend in Runaway's general direction.
Obviously a conspiracy by the Catholic church, and the Federalist Society to install a complete wussy as Chief Justice, so a radical religious minority could force it's strange views on other people. Fortunately, God is dead, but Karma is real. Several vacancies will open on the Court rather soon, and the evil that Trump wrought will be rectified.
aristarchus
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @06:32AM
Thank Godliness that aristarchus has been Spam modded, or I might have accidently read his post, and been convinced that what my pastor has been telling me, while raping my anus, was not true, at all. Near thing. Thanks, janrinok and FatPhil, for keeping me loyal to my spiritual guides.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday June 26 2022, @05:27PM (4 children)
Yeah, oops [cnn.com].
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @05:43PM (3 children)
Republicans lie and gaslight until they get what they want. A more immoral group of people I have never seen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @10:43PM (2 children)
Yeah, but they get what they want. Even while the dems hold a majority they present no opposition. How sad is that?
(Score: -1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @11:10PM (1 child)
The dems got what they wanted, which is Bidenflation.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @07:14AM
https://fee.org/articles/did-joe-biden-really-say-he-d-close-down-the-oil-industry/ [fee.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by drussell on Sunday June 26 2022, @06:45PM (9 children)
There are plenty of nutters, from all across the political spectrum...
What is your point, and where is the Rage?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @07:18PM (5 children)
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/pro-abortion-mob-defaces-american-monuments-capitol-riot-disrespects-american-veterans [thefederalistpapers.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @08:40PM (3 children)
Is that better or worse than assaulting the capitol in an attempted insurrection for a fatass lying fascist? Don't worry, we'll wait for your brain to work through the cognitive dissonance.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @01:19AM (2 children)
If by assaulting, you mean being let in, and by attempted insurrection you mean a sit-in, I guess that might have had relevance.
So far the hideous January 6 board has shown up unspeakable horrors ... of nothing very much.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @05:07PM (1 child)
Setting aside your BS, committing insurrection over disproven lies is bad enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @02:04AM
Cuckoo Coup.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @09:54PM
Thank you for the link to that The Federalist Papers [thefederalistpapers.org] website! I had been aware of The Federalist [thefederalist.com], but was not aware of the similarly-named site... with more interesting work. Here's a fascinating story:
- TX GOP Takes Major Stand, Declares Homosexuality an 'Abnormal Lifestyle' and Demands SCOTUS Act [thefederalistpapers.org]
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @06:40AM
His point is that he's found the token blue-haired LGBTQ person to affirm his fascist viewpoints, so that makes them more valid.
Just like how the forced-birth movement totally isn't based on religion. You know this is true because a staggering 8% or so of atheists are forced-birthers! Well, that settles it, then!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday June 27 2022, @10:26PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @02:14AM
About [wikipedia.org] Rage [abc.net.au]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @07:10PM (4 children)
Green Lives Matter! Lettuce alone!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @02:30AM
Let's Go Broccoli!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @03:21AM (1 child)
Let us pray,
Lettuce prey.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @09:59AM
Spanked Runaway Vegetables! Spanky McSpankface! Runaway is spanked so hard this time, either he will never journal again, or he must like it, and gets it here without having to pay, like he does in Texarkana.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 29 2022, @07:50PM
When I ketchup to you, then you'll be in a pickle!
Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @10:54PM (4 children)
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/26/1107710215/roe-overturned-mary-miller-historic-victory-for-white-life [npr.org]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:26PM (2 children)
Fake news, you can hear that she misspoke and said "why" not "white".
It doesn't even make sense as a Freudian slip since black babies are being killed disproportionately by abortions.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:45PM (1 child)
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOUruueOeTE [youtube.com].
She definitely said "white" instead of "why." She looked down at her script after saying it was an historic victory for "white life." If she had misspoke, she had the opportunity to correct it but didn't do so.
I also notice that my original post was modded down. It looks like someone doesn't want the quiet part said out loud.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @06:44AM
Maybe it was "why white life?" Which is a serious and unanswerable question. Seriously, why? White's got nothing.
Somebody, please, email admin@soylentnews.org and explain to them what they are doing to AC participation on this site. TOR users are banned entirely. Any liberals are banned by Runaway. The whole thing sucks, and is treason to the ideal of BuckFeta.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:50PM
Also from ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: As Trump looks on, Illinois Republican hails overturn of Roe as “victory for white life” [wsws.org]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @12:40AM (8 children)
"It really stirs them up when you start into the "Well, they're not conservative" argument.
Not "not conservative enough" Jesus christ, I've had enough of the my-way-or-the-highway 100% conservatism (except not the highway, because they won't even do infrastructure anymore)
But not conservative at all, big govt, big spending, rights and freedoms restricting republicans.
And they may hate democrats, but a number of these democrats are moderately conservative and closer ideologically with what people actually believe, not what they're told they should be angry about in order to justify NOT being conservative anymore.
Most of the stuff they're angry about is fake.
Erroneously made up nonsense, shit that just isn't happening.
"They're going to take guns away" they're just not, it's political suicide for anyone, purple state reps specifically, even safely blue ones with large gun-owning populations. 2nd amendment is safe
"CRT," apparently learning anything other than "We're grrrrreat" in history class is CRT, even though they don't teach it in k-12, and even in law school, it's a debate class, they debate whether or not a law is racist (discriminatory) they don't just conclude every law is racist
"Illegal immigrants," we've always had about 10 million of them, they, for the most part, help us put food on the table because then white people don't have to do it, because mostly they can't (won't)
"LGBT child grooming": the republicans are very very concerned about child grooming that really isn't happening. Just allowing people to be who they are apparently is child grooming... the republicans should know all about child grooming... it's their thing. They love it when it's them doing it.
It flipped and it seems no republican/conservative or very few, seemed to notice. Even so called libertarians were low key gonna welcome a dictator "president" as long as it's a republican.
That's fucking scary, you will always lose rights and freedoms under a dictator, even if they're "on your side"
They're not, you're fucked if you think that's good
And let me take away the self-proclaimed libertarian badge, they don't think independently enough for it. Libertarianism itself requires an educated populous (out the window for us) and a strong dose of democracy
Yes, fucking look it up, think about it, if you take power from federal govt and put it in the hands of the people, what's that called?
Oh, and if you take enough power away, corporations will step in to fill the void.
Wouldn't you love to stand in the Meta DMV? Virtually, to pay $1700 (real $) for your license? Or perhaps the Walmart supreme court or Apple Congress or ExxonMobil president?
(Don't point out that we're already in this place minus the explicit sponsorship signage. It's a bad situation; it's not good for any of us)"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @02:22AM (5 children)
Is a 1000% excise tax on guns taking away guns?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @05:05AM (4 children)
This topic came up, peripherally, during the discussion on anti-Saturday-Night-Special laws. The result was that the courts determined that legislative choices calculated to establish a high price base to firearms is discriminatory against poor people who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity to defend themselves, and are therefore unconstitutional. The same logic would apply to punitive taxation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @01:20PM (3 children)
Who pays attention to SCROTUS anymore?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @07:14PM (2 children)
Apparently not the nincompoops running around screaming about how they banned abortion, because that's absolutely not what they did.
But here we are; reading comprehension is rare these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @01:57AM (1 child)
For many Americans, the Supreme Court decision might as well have banned abortion.
Several states had passed trigger laws prior to the decision, which would go into effect if Roe v. Wade were overturned and impose bans in those states. A significant percentage of states with trigger laws are very restrictive, not even permitting abortion in the case of rape or incest.
Effectively, this requires women to travel out of state to get an abortion. Because many of the states that have banned abortions are clustered together geographically, lengthy travel may be required in order for a woman to get an abortion.
At a minimum, the immediate effect of the Supreme Court decision was for abortion bans to take effect in many states. The distances that women in some cities will need to travel to the nearest abortion clinic [nbcnews.com] may effectively prohibit them from being able to receive an abortion.
Although the Supreme Court ruling did not ban abortion, it did trigger very prohibitive bans in several states.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @05:02PM
That's a critically important distinction. The federal powers are not, at the time of writing, making this call. Pelosi and Schumer have been rumbling about fixing it - what changed? Just tearing away a crap old decision.
The pity is that the logic behind Roe vs Wade was pretty friendly, in that it simply set a bar beyond which government interest couldn't be sustained against personal interests; it was just done so badly that its failure was widely anticipated everywhere except congress, where they decided to sit on their thumbs for a few decades.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @07:00AM (1 child)
I Hate Runaway
Supreme Court Catholic Edition.
I hate Runaway on a stick,
I hate Runaway with a prick!
I hate him when he doubles down,
I hate him when he plays the clown.
Runaway I hate thee so very much,
Let me count the ways while I munch.
I hate you for the LeafBlowers you make,
Much preferred if they used a rake.
I do not like your taste in dogs,
Not to mention Arkansas frogs.
For privacy rights you do not stand,
Which is why you were doxxed and spanked.
148 and 116, only the GPS is nixed.
Your op-sec sucks, it's true,
And my Auntie Pha will visit you.
Your Protestant Religion is a hoax,
And Huckabee will be your host.
Not too bright, nor blessed by God,
You will remain a ignorant clod.
And now the Red Flag is raised,
to finally locate your purple haze.
Before dawn they fly right in,
Black helicopters you never see coming.
So sleep tight hateful Runaway,
Knowing we will have your HIPPA.
If you have never been preggers,
You have nothing to hide, it appears.
But I hate you anyway,
No matter where you runaway.
Qualities like yours are hard to have,
And so from SN you will be splaved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @09:23AM
Not me!
I hate Runaway in a box,
I hate Runaway's Monkey Pox!
Do not like him in can,
Or when he storms the Capitol, again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @02:59PM
https://www.inquirer.com/news/justified-homicide-self-defense-philadelphia-police-larry-krasner-gun-license-permit-20220620.html [inquirer.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2022, @05:23PM (1 child)
Runaway has gotten AC posting banned, but they forgot to enforce it in the journals? Well we can see where all the comments will be, from now on.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 30 2022, @06:02PM
We cannot edit journals, we cannot change the settings on journals, we are not responsible for the content of journals. You have been told this so many times yet still you do not understand. We didn't 'forget' to do anything. We do NOT control the journals.
Guess where the spammers will probably end up too! Go on, think about it for a few minutes. I'm sure that you will work it out. The spammers, trolls and political extremists created this environment, and I am sorry to say that now you will have to learn to live in it...