American voters punish Republicans for Supreme Court's revocation of abortion rights

While religious conservatives have been celebrating the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court fulfilling its goal of revoking the right for American women to access abortion services, American voters have been showing their displeasure by punishing Republicans in the ballot box. Senator Amy Klobuchar joins Rachel Maddow to discuss.
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#RoevWade #Republicans #abortionrights

[@janwoodworth1]

Telling women they are too inept to care for their own bodies in 2024 is a ridiculous power grab.

[@REALTRUTH2525]

QUIT expecting other women to just say ok and roll over to murder. You're the ones spending all that time on your back. You pay for it or close your legs.

[@georgesheffield1580]

Male christian bigotry

[@silentmajority8365]

Telling us you can decide who is human is fascism

[@janwoodworth1]

@@silentmajority8365 hysterical..define fascism 😁😅🤣😅. More like Forced Birthing is Tyranny.

[@janwoodworth1]

@melancholyheatwave fascism is a form of government. Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. You know, the Republican platform.

[@PKing-px5dg]

Everyone has the right to refuse Medical treatment, no one has the right to deny other's Medical treatment! Period

[@jacquelinephillips1608]

I agree 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@chiad25]

The Gilead ghost looms in the horizont.

[@JesseJones-jh3fl]

"Medical treatment." 🤣

[@Opinionsrnotfacts574]

A FOX report yesterday declared that if women were so concerned about bodily autonomy they would not get pregnant in the first place. You can't make this stuff up!

[@BoundariesMaintained]

@@JesseJones-jh3flYes, medical treatment. When a wanted pregnancy becomes non-viable, the fetal tissue must be removed before it turns septic. Without a medically necessary abortion, the mother will die. She has the right to receive medical care if her life is in danger. There’s more than one side to this issue.

[@dogsrule2075]

The fact that Alito and Thomas have the power to decide if women die waiting for medical assistance is outrageous and disgusting. Vote BLUE.

[@kellydoyle7833]

The fact that Alito and Thomas have the power to decide anything other than what they want for dinner is outrageous and disgusting. They have both proven themselves unworthy of the public's trust.

[@pmsteamrailroading]

I don’t think they should be able to decide what’s for dinner. They should have to eat what the rest of the convicts eat.

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

@@pmsteamrailroading your overly emotional rhetoric is exactly a reflection of why there will be no female US president anytime soon.

[@aparnarajesh]

they will lose their power

[@afry6400]

@@aparnarajesh If we ever return to actual justice, they will.

[@Marchant2]

The voters need to keep telling Republicans "A WOMAN'S PREGNANCY IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS!"

[@CherylBoyce-gr1oo]

Exactly

[@to8484]

Here here

[@Fox_Zero]

Does anyone remember when Biden and Obama had majorities in congress and the house of representatives? How they failed to codify abortion, because they were too busy bailing out the banks? More over does anyone remember, their second term, when they gifted Mitch McConnell a Supreme Court nomination? Does anyone remember 2016 when Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged the primary for Hillary Clinton? They love using the issue of abortion for their fear propaganda, and like to place the blame on Trump and Conservative elected officials, but fail to mention, that they are the ones that enabled them! Trump will win again, unless people wake up and unite behind an independent or 3rd party candidate, Democratic party is only good at two things, funding foreign wars, and blaming Republicans for all their failures.

[@cht2162]

Sadly, you can't tell Republicans anything.

[@to8484]

@@cht2162 yep

[@kenibel78]

I lost my second baby in 2020. I was devastated and heart broken. I was told that I needed to have a D&C which could be considered an abortion because my baby was too big to pass. This was done so that I could continue living to be here for my living child. I cannot imagine if a procedure like would have not been available in a time where the loss of my baby was already so devastating. We need to vote blue to undo this horrible decision the MAGAT corrupt Supreme Court has done. 🦋🦋🦋

[@nicholerusnak2905]

I am heartbroken at your loss. Thank you for speaking up for the women of America.

[@MBJean]

Medically, miscarriage is charted as spontaneous abortion. I don’t understand how people argue it’s not a medical procedure. I’m sorry you went through that devastating experience and I’m happy to hear you’re safe. Thank you for sharing, many blessings

[@kenibel78]

🩷

[@kathleenvangorder5941]

D&C. (Dilation & Curettage). Sorry for your loss. Always voted/voting BLUE.

[@Kwk16534]

They are already forcing other women to carry non-viable pregnancies until the woman expels the fetus and probably loses her life

[@kerrik8958]

My daughter was given the news last week that she had an invalid pregnancy. She was only a few weeks into the pregnancy. Sadly, doctors could not find a heartbeat. She needed a curet, thank goodness we here in Australia have great health care. And we do not have these crazies telling women they cannot get the health care they need when these issues come up. If she didn't have this available to her, it would have ended horribly. Praying for American women who may go through the same thing my daughter went through. Take the power off these crazy Republicans. VOTE BLUE AMERICA. 💙

[@schnaps1428]

Please explain 'invalid pregnancy'.

[@ariaflame-au]

@@schnaps1428 The fetus is not viable. I thought that was obvious from the description.

[@heatherreed3624]

​@@schnaps1428read a bit further, also states NO HEARTBEAT, a heartbeat is something everyone needs to actually be alive.

[@mr-boo]

If it is up to some more extreme Republicans, the mother would even be investigated for potential murder. Imagine losing your child and then being sued for killing your child, with all the dirt they manage to find on you thrown on you. Guilt! Guilt! Shame! Shame! And of course, these are the extremes of the group, but with 50% of the people backing Trump, wanting to consolidate power in the presidency and Trump doing whatever he thinks will make him more popular on the day, that idea is becoming increasingly more real.

[@yolandazach]

This is exactly what I've been saying. I've lost pregnancies, and needed Healthcare, that fortunately was available to me. I've gone on to have 2 wonderful children, If it was not, I may not have been able to have any kids. THIS IS HEALTHCARE.

[@niclewis9610]

"Women are not without Political or Electoral Power" President Biden SOTU

[@shawnasanclemente4668]

I believe the whole world is about to see that power exercised in November. Roeyourvote2024!!

[@Im_No_One_2024]

@@shawnasanclemente4668 Amen !!! Biden / Harris 2024

[@Hippygypy]

​@@Im_No_One_2024Amen... YOU Hypocrites 😢

[@rogergeyer9851]

@@Hippygypy: Your ilk does better hyping flat earth, anti-vaxxing, etc.

[@Im_No_One_2024]

@@Hippygypy Your accusation is clearly a confession. Biden / Harris 2024

[@lightwillprevail]

Real men are able to support and trust women making their own personal medical decisions.

[@ServeChristLikeTrump]

Sadly, not that type of decision, you are speaking of very submissive and beta men. It's too bad you'll never actually come to know what a real man is with the type of thinking you are displaying.

[@itt2055]

As I wrote in a comment here, my mother would have died on at least 2 occasions less than 10 years after my birth because of severe complications during pregnancy that required emergency abortions. I am now 55 and my mother is still alive. She even insists on cooking for me once a week because she is afraid that I am not eating healthy meals. If it wasn't for abortions I would not have all the wonderful memories of her.

[@christophercahall3092]

It was that way for over a hundred years, where the context of term "quickening" originated.This supposed Christian "concern " is actually something new.

[@STHFGDBY]

​@@itt2055Ya, nice story, but 99% of abortions are not due to abnormalities or risk to the mother. That's just a BS excuse to justify the deliberate destruction of life in the womb.

[@Opinionsrnotfacts574]

Evangelical Republicans now argue that if a woman "kept her legs closed" there would be no unwanted pregnancies. Gilead here we come!

[@catlady443]

this is the result of Religious zealots insist on the intermingling of church and state. It must stop

[@Catwitchtarot]

Agreed. It is clearly the indoctrination of Christian religion into secular society via government. That should never be permissible.

[@SnowLeopardForever]

It’s so true! And I say this as a Christian who IS NOT like that.

[@Deraiil]

I'm glad to see the public fighting back on this issue. I live in Texas and I hope every Democrat here votes!

[@kh0034]

Now, we see how important Roe was to women and families. That wasn't just about abortion, it was the basis for women's health and the sustainability of the family. This isn't about "saving babies" when there's nothing being said or planned for the LIFE of that baby AFTER the baby is born. Before more fundamental rights are taken away and the fallout from that action, vote blue💙

[@itt2055]

Over 80% of abortions are done because of complications during pregnancy that may cause death or serious injury to the pregnant woman. My mother had to have 5 emergency abortions after I was born and in 2 of them, any delays would have killed her. I am very lucky to have been born in Australia, I have access to free medical treatment from a decent public health system. Under the Australian public health system abortions for medical reasons are fully covered and abortions for personal reasons are means tested so they are free for minimum wage earners but the more you earn over minimum wage the more you will have to pay. Abortions are a necessity medical procedure that has saved millions of lives.

[@ericbrosofske6733]

It is estimated that about 1% of all abortions in the United States are performed after 20 weeks, or approximately 10 000 to 15 000 annually. Since the Roe framework essentially medicalized abortion decisions beyond the first trimester, and since abortions in the United States are now performed on demand and only rarely for medical reasons which could end the life of the mother, what can we conclude about the value and impact of medical necessity determination in the case of induced abortion?

[@itt2055]

​@ericbrosofske6733 what you are saying goes against the truth and is more like what the right to life movement is saying. The majority of women don't know that they are pregnant for atleast 30 days or one menstrual cycle but the majority of women don't do a pregnancy test until they are over 2 weeks late. No one has the right to choose whether a woman gives birth or not it is up to her. Anyone who forces a woman to give birth because of their personal or religious belief is inhumane and doesn't deserve to be a part of society. You can not force your beliefs on other people. Laws should be made by common sense and not religion and in the USA it is against the American constitution to make laws based on religious beliefs. So the banning of abortions is unconstitutional.

[@ericbrosofske6733]

@@itt2055 That was directly from the World Health Organization website. Take it up with them.

[@mellie4174]

Wow! That's amazing!

[@jenniferbailey5914]

I said women and independents will vote Biden. Americans are sick of going backwards when the rest of the world moves forward.

[@marshamariner7897]

Yep. In IA the stone age is in full bloom🤢🤮🤬🤢🤮🤬🤢🤮🤬🤬🤬

[@Fox_Zero]

Women with short term memory perhaps? Does anyone remember when Biden and Obama had majorities in congress and the house of representatives? How they failed to codify abortion, because they were too busy bailing out the banks? More over does anyone remember, their second term, when they gifted Mitch McConnell a Supreme Court nomination? Does anyone remember 2016 when Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged the primary for Hillary Clinton? They love using the issue of abortion for their fear propaganda, and like to place the blame on Trump and Conservative elected officials, but fail to mention, that they are the ones that enabled them! Trump will win again, unless people wake up and unite behind an independent or 3rd party candidate, Democratic party is only good at two things, funding foreign wars, and blaming Republicans for all their failures.

[@angeladansie4378]

Maybe...if CNN stops its anti-Biden propaganda! People think of CNN as the "independent, moderate" news source, not realizing how hard they're trying to be the new Fox for moderate Republicans (not-quite-fascist) now that Fox has gone full fashy

[@SS-jb8wj]

After Pearl Harbour, Japan said "We have woken a sleeping tiger". After Roe v Wade overturning, women are saying "You have woken a sleeping tiger".

[@JaneJetsin]

Oh yes we are ABSOLUTELY not finished punishing them!

[@monicaluketich6913]

Not the tiger, but the Tigress has been awakened.

[@JaneJetsin]

@@monicaluketich6913 We are not finished punishing them for oppressing us!

[@adamyoung480]

Aloha. And the people who love them!

[@SS-jb8wj]

@@monicaluketich6913 So true. I wish I had thought of that.

[@TheGuruwan2b]

Joe says he would veto a nation wide abortion ban. R's don't have enough votes to override a veto. We need to keep Joe in.

[@L3L3L3]

Women, and the men who love them, will vote Blue to save their rights to health and making personal choices.

[@kelperdude]

They will vote blue to make women join the draft.

[@Noreb]

@@kelperdude what a weird attempt at propaganda..

[@wolfsongmoondancer1428]

​@@kelperdude Hi troll. 👆

[@daveleekatz]

​@@kelperdudeman y'all maga-ts will say anything huh?

[@jimm.6542]

@@kelperdude👈🏽👈🏽spends his entire waking life saying stupid stuff. What a waste of time……

[@dsiepiela6449]

I’m so sick of being saturated with the Christian mythology and hypocrisy!!

[@MrMarkOlson]

It's not even Christianity. Christ never said anything against abortion. Evangelicals are NOT Christians.

[@dsiepiela6449]

@@MrMarkOlson There are thousands of different varieties of Christians, from the Amish to the Mennonites, from the Snake handlers to the New Age varieties. No two people sitting in the same church actually believe exactly the same. Yet the Christian Nationalists want everyone to believe that their version is God’s choice.

[@Clydesirota]

@@MrMarkOlsonThis has nothing to do with Christ’s teachings. It’s about men controlling women and their bodies. Same old story.

[@WillowT442]

Agree- I left my Christian nationalist background to be “of the world” now the world I choose has become the nutty Christian nationalists I already left. I hate it!

[@WillowT442]

@@Clydesirotaunfortunately most so called Christians do not recognize their own hypocrisy.

[@gingw7333]

You have OB-GYN Drs leaving those states in droves. That puts the health of women of those states at higher risks in many ways. Not just during pregnancy.

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

Won't be long before you've got people choosing to have their families and homes in more rational places.

[@CortexNewsService]

There's downstream effects too. Here in Illinois, we are getting flooded by people seeking abortions. We're the only pro-choice state that's almost completely surrounded by states with extreme laws. Every clinic in the state has had to race to add capacity and it still isn't enough.

[@MrMarkOlson]

People who are smart will do what they can to leave the slave states (those states with laws that enslave women) if things don't revert come November. It is not worth the risk to stay in a state with unsafe regressive laws.

[@gracebellamy586]

Yet another of my friends is leaving the state of Florida because of the draconian laws and anti-everyone-not-evangelical-christian laws that they have been passing, or the governor Ron DeFascist has been declaring. Florida has become a very dangerous place, during my lifetime, and I am scared. The crime has risen so high... especially white collar crime, but also violent crime. You cannot walk around in the city without facing some Russians with guns on their hips, and they are aggressive! Florida has become a haven for criminals, con-artists, and the various Organized Crime Groups: the Russian Bratva, the Cuban Family, and the White Supremacist Good Ole Boys. Criminal Motorcycle Gangs in Florida own the roads. The Outlaws are a BIG problem (that's one of the gangs), as well as the Warlocks, and the Hells Angels, and others. There are drive by shootings and murders every day, and not just in the lower end housing but in the higher end housing too. And the good Ob/Gyn's are fleeing the state (Obstetrical or Gynecological Doctors). Not just those who regularly perform abortions, but also those that are afraid if they have to do so for a patient, they'll end up in jail because some old man with no knowledge of the situation will misjudge the doctor! Florida is a HORRIBLE place to live right now! And the WORST kind of people are flooding in... drunkards waving guns around and old people who have been so nasty to other people that they don't even have any ties to keep them in their homes, and they move down here only to get conned out of their savings and end up on the street! I am very scared, but I cannot leave due to family considerations. It seems like the good, hard-working people are leaving and the criminals are replacing them. I am scared to death of those motorcycle gangs, as they will surround a car on the highway and play power-trip games that end up with drivers being driven off the road. And Ron DeFascist is welcoming all of these criminals into the state!

[@Ivy94F]

The ones that decide to stay are heroes. They purposely stay just to give the population of women some hope and not to abandon them at the cost of their careers. IDK how many there are, but I know that there’s a faction who have done things like this before in red states.

[@waynemcintosh616]

As a man could you imagine the government telling me that I need to have a vasectomy😂

[@remaeburney832]

...or you can't get a vasectomy because it prevents a child from being created and born. It's against the laws of nature and God! You are one of few men that get it. Don't have a vasectomy unless you want one. It's your choice what goes on with your body. 😊

[@hankvandenakker4271]

OR THAT YOU CANNOT.

[@samuledarconi2927]

Don't laugh, banning contraception, including vasectomy is on far rights agenda. 😮

[@btcrazee1]

That is just it. Men can get ED treatment off tv. They never have to leave their home.

[@ChrisJones-wg1iy]

As a man, you don’t have to worry about being a second class citizen.

[@bridgetsclama]

If we can flip most of the rest, maybe the nutjobs like EmptyG, Boobert, Comer Pyle, etc, will leave town. My state is hopeless, is so red that I'm not sure we even have a single blue county here. Texas has more blue than Oklahoma. I absolutely will vote blue no matter who until sanity is restored.

[@Elle90]

EmptyG 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-gx4du6lv1d]

Every vote counts. Thank you.😊

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

Here in the Dakotas, it's even redder than that. It's only a matter of time before we pass something we shouldn't, too.

[@user-gx4du6lv1d]

@@TheOriginalJphyper Vote Blue and take back your freedom of choice. Load the majority as Democrats and they can fix the problem by passing bills to protect people's rights. 🤗

[@loribekers8681]

I understand completely; I live in the state of Indiana, so very red; no democrats even run in local elections and primaries because they know they have no chance

[@briansaunders4410]

I always thought I lived in the UNITED States of America, not the Coalition of States of America. There should be one national policy for key issues like reproductive rights, civil rights, voting rights, and more. The country must support the desires of the nation's population, and not the biased views of partisan state leaders.

[@ogle1go]

There was then the SC lied to get on the bench then changed it.

[@CraftyGrandmaDem]

@@ogle1go You're right. They need to go too.

[@ltho5616]

Succinctly put, well said

[@turbodog99]

You thought wrong.

[@scottramsay7439]

"It has come to our attention that you lied on your resume. Sorry, but we will have to let you go. Best of luck."

[@philstanton231]

Ladies, this is your election - stand up for your body and rights - vote for the truth, the constitution, democracy and America - vote blue 💙 💙 💙 💙

[@naisaephan5336]

Man you know the Democrats hate the constitution. They been trying for so long to replace our constitutional republic with democracy.

[@user-zd2uv3ss9z]

YES, YES, and YES!!!!!!

[@NotRose-hf7kr]

Biden is always lying and sniffing on children . WHO does that in the World ?. Biden is a disgrace to this country. 100 years old man. Why vote for him?. U need a Smart man for the job.Democrats should look for a Smart person and not Biden. Or the President of Mexico should come and take over.

[@thehaywire8889]

Nope!

[@suehowie152]

​@@thehaywire8889Sit down then.

[@Anden1]

Roevember is coming to your State. Vote 💙🌊😎🌈

[@LeeannG]

I may not agree with Biden on everything, but when he said that women will speak in November he was telling the truth.

[@edhart9409]

My wife organized a march in Mariposa CA. For a small town, more than 20 women showed up. 👍

[@christopherlewis1847]

Respect!

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

It is becoming increasingly dangerous for women in america to be pregnant. Even a wanted pregnancy may significantly reduce the available health care, as doctors are frightened of what they might find. A drastic solution is needed. This is no wise time for wanting a child.

[@danielgodfrey9515]

It was already dangerous. The US leads the western world in maternal mortality. It got that bad in Texas the governor refused to release the latest statistics on it.

[@thisbushnell2012]

This is a time when VOTING TO RESTRICT LEGISLATIVE POWER OVER PERSONAL HEALTH IS ESSENTIAL!

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

@@thisbushnell2012 Isn't it odd how Republicans screeched to the heavens that asking them to wear a mask, when there's a dangerous new respiratory disease going around, was "unconstitutional government overreach", yet, to them, using the powers of government to forbid life-saving medical treatment to mothers is not?

[@yveeriksson7437]

I recommend you to interview a doctor and have him/her explain what Sepsis is, since this is something many women will get because of these anti-abortion laws. I work in hospitals myself, and can tell you that Sepsis is one of the conditions I am mostly afraid of getting.

[@thisbushnell2012]

For good reason, since it affects literally EVERY CELL OF THE BODY. Das Lange Putsch has been flowing in the National veins since 1939, gathering strength and infecting every aspect of the body politic. WE MUST BE AGRESSIVE IN TREATING FASCISM. THE POLITICAL LIFE OF OUR NATION DEPENDS ON EVERY VOICE BEING EQUALLY VALUED.

[@Ivy94F]

Sepsis is very scary. Not just for the patients, but for the doctors who treat them. It can be unpredictable and sometimes hard to treat quickly.

[@dannmarceau]

The Republicans have poked the Hornet's Nest; let's show them how we feel at the ballot box with a landslide win. Vote Blue💙

[@chipdouglaschipdouglas]

🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@user-nu5rh2lb8v]

Men need to pay attention to this issue. It is not just a “woman’s” problem. No one knows what the future will bring. Every man knows a woman he cares about a mother, sister, daughter, spouse. Their life may literally be at issue without abortion rights. Vote for their life, vote Democrat all the way up and down ballot.

[@nodrugwars]

We aren't nearly done making them pay.

[@thisbushnell2012]

They must be unequivocally SCHOOLED! Our vote is the PADDLE.

[@patriciavaughan1390]

The way this has turned out is sadistic !

[@suehowie152]

The statistics coming out of Texas since the ban are abysmal.😥

[@cherylmatthews5507]

Cruelty ISthe point😵‍💫🤦‍♀️🥺

[@JGLy22086]

It’s only sadistic to women who are in fear if they need an abortion!

[@dark14life]

@@cherylmatthews5507 exactly. Repubs are vile, cruel, evil people. They are unworthy of calling themselves Americans. Or even humans.

[@thisbushnell2012]

You just now noticing the underlying ethos of conservatism? Fascism is at its heart.

[@darlene1354]

I love Amy! Thank you Rachel for having her on. Thank you for all you do.

[@maryannkastorff9680]

Proud to have her as my Senator!

[@Ddax-td7qy]

If only it could have been Amy. Age issue irrelevant. So much for hating the "Left Coast Elites." If only...

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

Rachel has no idea what is going on. She only talks about what the government controlled media tells her to say.

[@macmcleod1188]

22 million voters in the 18-30 demographic for that gender. Many of them started voting for the first time after the 2022 ruling (and even more as it got more draconian since then) They are in every state.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

It's like they forgot that women already HAD the right to vote. Big mistake.

[@afry6400]

@@Echo81Rumple83 They are working on that as well. There are a number of groups in the GOP at this point who think it was a mistake to let them vote, as if they don't have needs and a voice.

[@CKLee-rs4kl]

Every eligible woman must vote! And vote with compassion for all women.

[@CraftyGrandmaDem]

@@Echo81Rumple83 The GOP wants to take care of that too. They are taking away the right to vote for people of color, then they'll go after a woman's right to vote.

[@macmcleod1188]

You will know that I had to be vague and avoid saying the gender because when I do, our host site cénsors the comment. I have no idea why.

[@franciscotrillo8269]

Thank you Rachel keep beating the truth drum, GOD BLESS

[@kelperdude]

cheapfakes.

[@jerryjerry7561]

@@kelperdude do all your comments go thru a political officer first?

[@wolfsongmoondancer1428]

​@@kelperdude 👆TROLL!!

[@daveleekatz]

​@@kelperdudefacts don't magically change just because you say nu uhh

[@paulford9120]

Gotta admit, this was a major self-inflicted wound on the part of a party totally unconnected to the plight of average citizens.

[@ArtDocHound]

I want my Rights back!! 🇺🇲

[@niclewis9610]

"Democrats trust women" Vice President Kamala Harris

[@wisdomsleuth77777]

Amy he said worse than that he was willing to punish the mothers and have them jailed😢

[@thisbushnell2012]

His cultists would charge women for a miscarriage with MURDER.

[@emilyfeagin2673]

He hates women maybe that’s why

[@Namrevlis1938]

Rachel, why can't governors, police, senators, etc who punish women for being pregnant, with the crime of practicing medicine without a license? I'm quite serious! David

[@thisbushnell2012]

I CONCUR!

[@koda3967]

I think you missed part of your thought, there. 🙂 But, I'm pretty sure I agree with your sentiment. 🥰

[@kylieroberts1128]

I’m so thankful to be in Australia. My sister would be dead if she’d been unable to access abortion. Three pregnancies ultimately ended in life threatening situations that resulted in her needing emergency abortions after her in between the births of her first and “technically” 5th (but 2nd) child. Each of those pregnancies had been wanted. We would have lost our sister. Her 1st child would have lost their mother. Her husband would have lost his wife…multiple people’s lives would have been devastated. My nephew would never have been born. Abortion SAVED HER LIFE.

[@Kwk16534]

Thank you wish I were in Australia❤❤

[@nickiemcnichols5397]

Kansas did good on abortion…..this time….but then a judge decided that no one has the right to vote. What a boneheaded. He should be kicked out and disbarred.

[@zentierra7803]

State by state, and then at the national level, this _is_ the ultimate goal of the MAGA "Republicans" and the vicious Evangelical "Christians" ...to take away not only voting, but ALL rights and freedoms for Americans, and to destroy the very democratic principles enshrined in our Constitution, in order to turn this nation into *their* version of the Taliban. And no, this is not hyperbole.

[@juliettebobcat704]

Thank you, independent voters. Now, go to the polls and show us you really care!

[@gmpullman]

Texas, infant mortality rate up by 8% in 2022 according to a Johns Hopkins study.

[@jorgfranke6505]

Shame on the governor.

[@kcar8974]

Oh, but but but Texas loves babies 🙄

[@user-zd2uv3ss9z]

@@kcar8974 So, they just hate Mothers?

[@user-gx4du6lv1d]

​@@user-zd2uv3ss9z Apparently, or they would allow them the healthcare they need. You need a healthy mother and a healthy pregnancy to get a healthy baby. Nature should make the choice not politicians. Without mothers there will be no babies. The two go hand in hand. 😊

[@johnfoxwell9576]

@@jorgfranke6505Shame on the people of Texas….not just the governor….they voted him in and they vote red…they get what they deserve.

[@nancyjay790]

Politicians and the government of any country on this marble of a planet have no business interjecting themselves into medical matters.

[@thisbushnell2012]

TRUTH!

[@overtonhallford54]

Mitch McConnell made the present court possible. Don't forget that.

[@justsayin8734]

Master of disaster. 100% on him.

[@Mr.R-xv4le]

Roe v. Republicans: Republicans LOSE BIGLY

[@jay.d277]

It's not really punishing Republicans. It's a natural inevitable response.

[@ariaflame-au]

It's called 'consequences of their actions'

[@thisbushnell2012]

​@@ariaflame-au In modern lingo, FAFO

[@BlindSquirrel425]

Agree. Poor choice of words for a headline.💙

[@CraftyGrandmaDem]

Republicans wanted to end Roe v. Wade. So, now we are voting them out. Their actions have consequences. Vote Biden/Blue all the way down the ballot and vote blue until every maga/election denier is out of office.

[@mk1st]

In order to enforce a national ban an unacceptable level of intrusion into our privacy would be required. Undecided men need to be aware of this and asked if they’re ok with it.

[@nightowl6260]

Where is the law that hold the impregnator male responsible for "child" support and pregnancy support for the 9 months of the legally enforced impregnation of the female?

[@thisbushnell2012]

At least 3 generations in the future, IF WE ACT NOW.

[@ellenl5626]

Rachel and Amy, two astounding ladies.

[@chipdouglaschipdouglas]

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RichardPierpoint-di8fi]

@@chipdouglaschipdouglas GFY arsehole - blagodaryu vas, KKKretin...

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

Rachel has no idea what is going on. She only talks about what the government controlled media tells her to say.

[@Sheila-G]

At least they had a chance to vote on it! In texas our mini-king Abbott just decided for us....😢

[@monicaluketich6913]

I agree, but we also have a group here called Mothers Against Greg Abbot. They have woken the sleeping Tigress in each of us.

[@kellydoyle7833]

You know what to do.

[@scrippen7822]

Abbott-completely incompetent with his head up frump’s backside!

[@DanaAgenbroad-pw4zw]

This true of Republican led legislators, who pass these laws without voter input. Now they are sweating the consequences.

[@user-tz4wy2xe6z]

I despise Abbott and Paxton. Both do not not deserve to have any authority over women. Neither are doctors yet they are controlling women's health. Ashamed to live in Texas now. Took down my flag. No respect for Texas men who condone this

[@rexg.sayson]

Vote Democrat. Vote Blue all the way.

[@lorrainemcfarland621]

@melancholyheatwave It's definitely a party issue because Repubs thought it would be a vote getter.

[@DaKingisDead]

Speak on it Rachel...the Truth is the Light🚫🤡💩

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

Rachel Madcow

[@DuaneHallinSD]

@@ryanoglesbee1075 derp

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

@@DuaneHallinSD congratulations Duane! You are in the party of women and Lady boys. Of purple hair and pencil necks. Antifa and tide pod eaters Derrrrp.

[@chipdouglaschipdouglas]

@@ryanoglesbee1075 I thought it was Richard Madcow?

[@thisbushnell2012]

Two brain-dead heartless trolls above this post

[@lindaliles5930]

how can states forbid their residents from crossing state lines for health care?

[@judyprincehouse8422]

They'll try....legally can't

[@JaneJetsin]

They are! Both Kansas and Texas do.

[@suehowie152]

It's called fascism.

[@nicholerusnak2905]

​@suehowie152 It's called "Gilead", and it's terrifying.....

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

@@nicholerusnak2905 The underground railroad better step up. And it would appear that those deep-red crazy states are no good place to have a home or family.

[@AprilB-vy6uq]

I just want my nieces and nephews to have the same rights I did.

[@jibbajabba8428]

Thank you for existing and continuing to exist. Keep speaking truth and sense.

[@thehaywire8889]

🤡

[@mickharper4995]

As an outsider (I live in the UK) looking into the US at the moment a point that seems to be slipping under the radar is the ages of voters now eligible to vote. The GOP has totally blown it with Gen Z with their frankly neanderthal outlook on certain rights, the fact that Trump continues to boast about how he overturned Roe V Wade shows how stupid he truly is, the only thing that needs to happen is when the Dems win big in Nov is Biden needs to appoint another 4 Supreme Court Justices to break that particular stranglehold. I am willing to bet if he does that Clarence Thomas's lifestyle will take a big hit.

[@kellydoyle7833]

CT is gonna start finding pubic hairs in his coke.

[@thisbushnell2012]

​@@kellydoyle7833THANK YOU! What corruption could have been sidestepped if the GOP had PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED WHAT THEY KNEW. ANITA HILL SPOKE THE TRUTH!

[@Kwk16534]

Love your comment and envy you living in the UK❤❤

[@edstowell5489]

What does return it to the states mean? In North Carolina, the Governor won statewide re-election running on keeping abortion access in the state. The State legislature overturned his VETO to their abortion ban. Who is representing the state? The Legislature or the Governor who was elected by the majority of the citizens of the state?

[@zentierra7803]

Yep. That's why we need to vote across ALL levels, Democrat Governor+Democrat legislature. Full Blue representation.

[@vmacart]

when all one knows is privilege, equality feels like oppression

[@Ddax-td7qy]

What do you bet, if Biden brings up Trump bragging about ending Roe, Trump says: "I never said that!" It's boiler plate narcissist. I hope Biden is ready for the follow-up: tell me one time I said that: give one example!

[@AthenaKeatingThomas]

It would be nifty if they could have a setup for showing particular videos that they've cued up. Trump: "Give me one example where I bragged about ending Roe v Wade!" Biden: Plays a montage where Trump says it 10 times in 30 seconds.

[@edwardmyers8782]

Don't forget honey are already trying to overturn the ruling that says married couples can get contraception much less unmarried couples.

[@rittherugger160]

Those Texas numbers show more than an increase in infant mortalities. There's also a dramatic increase in children with disabilities. Having a child with disabilities is expensive and they require so much more care that one parent will often have to quit their job to care for the child. If the child lives long enough that child will need to be educated. Special schooling is usually required. How are we going to pay for that? Really, how?

[@serendipity9649]

Especially when it is low-income and the outright poor that are the ones most affected by the banning of abortions. All those wealthy Republicans will still make sure their wives & daughters will have access to abortions.

[@thisbushnell2012]

Texas is one of the biggest takers of FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISSTANCE.

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

The inevitable result, I think, is that fewer people will choose to live in those deep-red crazy places that not only forbid life-saving medical care for mothers but then (to add insult to injury) would use the powers of the state to make life harsh for the children who turn out to be LGBTQIA or who have special needs.

[@paulinecriel9905]

It’s very unnerving knowing an entire political party thinks women’s lives have no value.

[@user-rn8qy3nx3p]

Why is the Supreme Court doing this? They do not have an M.D. . They need to get out of the healthcare business. Or get sued for malpractice.

[@joeciavarini9508]

I and my entire family will vote for President Biden. Vote BLUE to keep us living in America, not Gillead! The Pro Life stance is a joke when they say execute women who have an abortion. The right has gone insane. VOTE 💙

[@tinkerstrade3553]

Vote All Blue, let them rebuild their party without the haters.

[@Phaethone]

What kind of person are you, knowing that your own state citizens have so delicate health needs and issues but you purposefully hurting them with support of a clearly antihuman law and policy and being proud about this? For what?

[@thisbushnell2012]

For CONTROL! The 'conservatives' are fascists.

[@Kwk16534]

I appreciate your sensitive and philosophical comments obviously you are a very intelligent person

[@Phaethone]

@@Kwk16534 Oh, no-no, thank you! These are just simple empathy and logic. They're screaming and supporting all these "top liked" spam comments about "our homeless and veterans are being robbed" under every foreign policy and US finances video. But when it comes to health care issues, or any issue basically, that doesn't affect them directly, they're ready to sacrifice everyone for their illusory ideals they've been affected by. If the dictatorship comes they'll be sacrificed the same way by their idols. Double standards, hypocrisy, post-truth narratives and gaslighting are very easy to pick up and use for your own egotistical satisfaction which won't have any positive effect on your life except the life of those who manipulate you with those tools.

[@ariaflame-au]

Maybe they can be persuaded not to try and chase a car again, lest they find themselves catching it.

[@leyrua]

I have a feeling that the party of "personal responsibility" will still try to chase that car, in the same way that somebody tries to pick a fight in a bar and hopes that their friends will hold them back so that they can look like the tough guy, but won't actually get hurt.

[@AndhikaRyanandaP]

Keep producing this kind of content.

[@lynnrunningdeer7364]

Vote D for forward or R for reverse. Show them who's in charge. Without us they have no family or anyone to cleanup after them!

[@thisbushnell2012]

That's why they seek control over us. They have taken _the Handmaid's Tale_ as a blueprint.

[@vmacart]

the audacity of CEO’S is insanity

[@danielrussell9416]

Vote blue to protect democracy, your rights and the rights of others.

[@Devous7114]

ROE your VOTE!!!

[@searsfarmcat3328]

I believe that most women in this country are not fools. We have the ability to use our voting power to keep Republicans from taking away more of our rights and to keep Trump out of office.

[@skvig84]

How many wealthy, entitled women suddenly had to ask "what do you mean you can't help me."?

[@user-tz4wy2xe6z]

None. They go out of state where REAL Healthcare is practiced

[@user-gd9tr9je8k]

What happened to the land of the free? Trump.

[@RumRaiders]

Nothing like Men creating rules of what's best for Women's health....

[@HawkSenior58]

This abortion ban is State Sponsored Torture. My niece and her husband were looking forward to their second child. A couple months into the pregnancy something happened to cause the fetus to stop growing. Affectively the fetus was dead in the womb. She was heart broken. The she was told that she could not get an abortion there in Texas, and she would just have to wait it out and let the fetus abort naturally. She suffered with fever and cramps and bleeding for 3 weeks as the fetus took a while to abort completely. She nearly died. Not only did she lose a very much loved and wanted baby, she had to endure the physical pain of it all for over 3 weeks, with a chance of death. This is no more than State Sponsored Torture. Nobody has a right to make a woman go through such things risking death, and their emotion mental health, after a fetus is no living. My neice is still a mental mess over all this. She never should have had to go through it. Period. It was bad enough to have lost a baby but then to be made to suffer and maybe die for weeks is completely unacceptable. State Sponsored Torture.

[@tinkerbelltinkerbell1003]

WOMENS RIGHTS ! CIVIL RIGHTS !

[@jillgiachino8086]

Thank you, for reporting.

[@alanjabs6935]

One question for the debate - "Who won the last election" Then get into the rights of all people and specifically those of women..

[@kellydoyle7833]

How many votes does a candidate have to be beaten by for it to be a "free and fair" election? Is 7 million enough?

[@lynnerose7891]

Too bad we can’t punish the SCOTUS for being the worst since the time of Plessy I am also under no illusions that it’s literally pointless is bc SCITUS will just overturn it. We need to vote blue and make sure we can expand the court immediately.

[@thisbushnell2012]

Profoundly personal and UNIQUE IN _EVERY_ CASE. This is an issue that DOES _NOT_ BELONG IN THE HANDS OF STRANGERS, OF LEGISLATORS!

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks to Rachel and Senator Klobuchar! 🗽 We must cast our ballots for bodily autonomy and so many beneficial concepts that have real world effects! 🔸 Vote BLUE. 🗳

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

Rachel has no idea what is going on. She only talks about what the government controlled media tells her to say.

[@neilforbes416]

The Supreme Court acted *ILLEGALLY* and in *BLATANT VIOLATION* of its charter in overturning Roe -V- Wade. The role of courts, from local, right up to the Supreme Court is *NOT* to overturn *ANY* law. The courts' role is to make adjudications *BASED ON THE LAWS AS THEY STAND!*

[@NormanBraslow-nh2tz]

they did. It's a matter of state, not federal law. It's actually quite simple.

[@modernwonder]

@@NormanBraslow-nh2tz slaves were also a matter of state law fool

[@U.R.NeelyIII-xo1rx]

I can't make myself agree with abortion, but I can't make myself take away a woman's right to make her own choice

[@susanzoff6236]

Senator Amy K is a national treasure ❤

[@AlexHop1]

Thank you!

[@Splattle101]

How will you 'codify' Roe vs Wade while you have the filibuster? How will you do ANYTHING while that remains?

[@pomerlain8924]

Should the Dems get enough of a majority in the Senate, they will vote to remove the filibuster. Mark Kelly was the latest to come out to say that should the Dems hold the Senate, he will support removing the filibuster. It is time for it to go.

[@Splattle101]

@@pomerlain8924 It's PAST time for it to go. It should've gone at the beginning of Biden's term, but nobody could make Manchin and Sinema do it. So two questions: 1. how're they going to enforce ending the filibuster if they couldn't do it before? and 2. how're they going to win the Senate anyway, with Manchin retiring and the Dems already conceding his seat? I have zero confidence the Dems understand how serious the situation is. If they did, they would've acted in 2021 to end the filibuster, or to expand the Supreme Court, or to ensure the DoJ got to work on the 6 Jan debacle. But instead they appoint Merrick Garland. FFS! They're still acting like it's a polite game of croquette.

[@thisbushnell2012]

​@@pomerlain8924 Well past time. They are not paid OUR DOLLARS to stymie the BUSINESS OF THE PEOPLE.

[@coreysue3451]

Of course if we passed the equal rights ammendment we wouldn't be under political thumbs.

[@shoresean1237]

The standard should be Roe Minus Hyde Amendment, if not the Canadian Model. Right now, every last reg or restriction becomes a bulwark for the enforced-birth crowd to enact stealth bans.

[@priscillaszporka4983]

Don't tread on women's health 😊 Vote blue 2024 💙 🇺🇸

[@lindajallen3805]

My city in Alabama doesn't have a gynecologist.

[@kellydoyle7833]

.....probably won't be getting one anytime real soon.

[@lindajallen3805]

@@kellydoyle7833 there hasn't been one here in 25years so nope not expecting to see one anytime soon 😂🤣😭🙏🕊️💝🌈

[@michaelparks7177]

It has a profound effect on people when you take something from someone they previously had. People may not appreciate something they always had, or take for granted something they get that they didn’t have. But, when you take something from them - like their rights - you often find the reaction profound…

[@michaelparks7177]

That’s why people get hooked on gambling, they want their money back. Unfortunately, the more they play trying to get it back, the more they lose. Rights are very different. They can take those back in a democracy if enough people know how to vote right to get it…

[@lynryall1317]

And the rest fall on their knees to pray to their idol, the stench called trump 😢😢😢 💙💙💙

[@dtylice]

Treat 45 like a Rosenberg. And his minions, too.

[@donniegordon4934]

I am avidly watching the various issues that are important to Americans in this election year, I am Scottish and live in Scotland, however I recognise the importance for the world of the November election. I think the most important issue is the destruction of Roe v Wade! There are so many ways it affects, not only the women that are now at serious risk to their reproductve health, but families. That's a reason to vote.

[@user-dw4yf1lk4z]

Bout time Kansas . . . Keep voting blue

[@parecementira100]

What a time you are living on that country!! Courts doing politics and house judiciary committees doing justice 😂😂

[@thisbushnell2012]

UNdoing, UNdoing!

[@lynnrunningdeer7364]

KS knows the value of minding their own business😊.

[@thisbushnell2012]

KS Supreme Court has ruled there is no "right to vote"

[@theresaread6174]

Unfortunately the Rs in the state legislature are trying to find ways around what they were told with our votes.

[@user-wt4lx7wz6w]

Have a good question! Has the cost of women’s life insurance gone up for women capable of becoming pregnant due to the fact that mortality rates have increased post Roe?!