Feminists warned about America’s abortion crisis for years. We were written off as hysterical
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Why has the effective end of Roe v Wade been met with shock by so many corners of political life?This was predictable. In fact, it was predicted. The end of Roe v Wade and nationwide protections for abortion rights became likely in 2016, the night that Donald Trump was elected. It became inevitable in 2018, when Anthony Kennedy, the fifth pro-choice vote, retired and handed his seat to Trump to fill. But the end of nationwide legal abortion in America has been coming for decades, and there has been no ambiguity about the appetite for Roe’s overturn on the American right. And crucially, feminists have been sounding the alarm for decades, warning in increasingly desperate terms that gradual erosions of Roe’s protections in the law had led to a rapid and widespread loss of abortion access on the ground. Related: Republicans seethe with violence and lies. Texas is part of a bigger war they’re waging | Rebecca Solnit Continue reading...
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