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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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @12:40AM
"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)"