Robert Reich

Overturning Roe v. Wade was extreme, but also alarming was the logic Justice Alito used to justify it.

Same-sex marriage, access to contraception, and privacy are on the chopping block now, too.

This court will stop at nothing to turn back the clock to the nineteenth century.

Mar 5, 2023 at 12:33amWeb
Show threadElizabethMar 5, 2023
@rbreich don’t forget decriminalizing marital rape
Show threadPatrickleeMar 5, 2023
@rbreich *9th century.
Show threadstoicmikeMar 5, 2023
@rbreich Start by blaming Obama for letting them steal a SCOTUS seat & RBG for staying on the court for much too long as her health was failing. And for Clinton for treating the election and Trump as a joke.
Show threadheynav135Mar 5, 2023
@stoicmike @rbreich No.
Show threadVivianMar 5, 2023
@rbreich your country is fucked up, b’y, and it is also fucked
Show threadKingOfHeartsMar 5, 2023

@rbreich

Will we get bandstands too?

Show threadDeb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5, 2023

@rbreich

18th century as they understand it

Show threadheynav135Mar 5, 2023
@DeborahForPlus @rbreich
Yeah, except in the 18th century, reproductive issues were handled by midwives, so abortion was largely ignored. Even Ben Franklin published recipes for women's issues in his Poor Richard's Almanac. That all changed in the mid 1800s when men doctors took over the ob/gyn field and made midwifery obsolete, if not illegal. That's when they started tge anti-abortion movement. Women couldn't get into medical school until decades later.
Show threadDeb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5, 2023

@heynav135 @rbreich

Yup. Part of why I say, as they understand it.

They also choose not to understand the impact of European enlightenment movement and pretend there's no church state separation. Etc etc etc.

Show threadC0ppertopMar 5, 2023
@rbreich I wonder when SCOTUS will need to travel with a permanent security detail.
Show thread[email protected]❌👑Mar 5, 2023
@rbreich
Call Walgreens @ 800-925-4733 and make a complaint that you will not spend a penny there until they reverse their decision. This complaint will go to corporate. Let's flood their phone lines and hit 'em where it hurts $$$ #WalgreensHatesWomen #BoycottWalgreens #ByeWalgreens​
Show threadExtinction (our fate)Mar 5, 2023
@rbreich And most people will stop at oh, there's a cute cat to stop them. This must stop.
Show threadArt Saves Us AllMar 5, 2023

@rbreich

All things stop including your opinion, the Supreme Court, and time. When no one is around to listen, it's fucking over.

Show threadShawnMar 5, 2023

@rbreich although committing pregnancy to a potential death sentence is actually worse already than those other things.

We can’t fall for openly devaluing the lives of pregnant people by saying things like this.

Gay marriage, and I am gay, is lower on my list. They started at the top.

If hearing about people bleeding out due to a miscarriage makes you think “and they won’t stop there” then you’re contributing to the problem.

Show threadShawnMar 5, 2023

@rbreich Let’s be mad enough about the GOP giving the government ownership of uteruses. We don’t need further slippery slope anecdotes.

No one on earth, including a divided egg, owns the uterus except the person born with it. Not a priest, not a president, not a husband, not a single other person. Under that paradigm no one else can compel a pregnant person to let someone else live inside them.

Yes, someone will die. We don’t have to shy away from that reality. We have to state -

Show threadShawnMar 5, 2023

@rbreich - clearly that it doesn’t matter. The decision rests solely with the pregnant person. A zygote won’t care either way, certainly GOP elected officials can get over it.

It’s a medical procedure in all 50 states. Zero states call it murder.

The GOP has decided that this particular medical procedure is somehow evil because they have the level of understanding about science and the world that existed in about 1500. It’s not evil.

Abortion doesn’t need restrictions or bans.

Show threadKBSez ✅Mar 5, 2023

@rbreich

Alito spelled out his wish list in his opinion. Right there in black and white is what's next.

Show threadRuth Zakarin 🧶🪬😷Mar 5, 2023
@rbreich
It’s all about power and control. Abusers use harm and fear to maintain power and control, and this court is absolutely an abusive entity.
Show threadMacdaptableMar 5, 2023

@rbreich

I almost never agree with you but in this instance I do

Show threadJoe Muscara/Joe StoneMar 5, 2023
@rbreich I still think their logic also would apply to mixed-race marriage, but for some reason Justice Thomas didn’t mention that one.
Show threadLauraMar 5, 2023
@rbreich Agreed. I want to add that Adoptees should not be used as pawns in the fight for reproductive rights. I expose SCOTUS desire to increase supply of adoptable infants in my recent piece https://bit.ly/3Zifvpn
Adoption is not a simple or easy alternative to abortion

Adoption should not be seen as a default solution in the battle for reproductive rights. In debates about the right to this essential care, the voices and lived experiences of adoptees need to be heard.

STAT
Show threadDarth MoominMar 5, 2023
@rbreich I hate it here in 1855 Gilead.
Show threadWalter Dunham Ll.B.Mar 5, 2023
@rbreich
The sad plight of the SCOTUS ...
Show threadRich SpiegelMar 5, 2023
@rbreich
Alito and Thomas, the far-right leaders of the Supreme Council of Oligarchs of The US (SCOTUS), have actually gone farther back in their search for support from anti-female, anti-democracy "jurists." They provide illogical "justification." The other 11 months are mostly Male Months--celebrating the higher earnings of men; that gives them control over females--even our VP--whom the all-Christian Fundamentalist SCOTUS majority thinks are "Handmaidens"--servants to men, not mere breeders.
Show threadSFborn1940Mar 5, 2023
@rbreich Without a 5-5 justice Court true justice is not possible. Majority rule does not apply to juries, so why does it apply to the Court?
Show threadGurtbeef RobeMar 7, 2023
@rbreich we used to think they wanted to go back to the 50’s. Turns out it’s the 1850’s
Show threadGary D LynneMar 9, 2023
@rbreich Actually, it turns the clock back to the 1100-1500 period, when Conseravtive Catholicism ruled (along with Authoritarian Monarchy, and Oligarchy in tow) the world.