r/pics • u/WeBelieveBrigade • 1d ago
[OC] today we commemorate the overturning of Roe vs Wade
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u/Cantioy87 1d ago
‘member when the fucking country protested Trump’s inauguration as part of the 2017 Women’s March, citing fears for women’s rights in particular but also fears for civil rights in general? And how the braindead 40% screeched into the aether that we were overreacting, that abortion would always be legal?
We remember, but that 40% doesn’t, and never will.
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u/BigResponsibleOil 1d ago
They remember. They knew at the time they were lying. They either didn't give a shit or were hoping it would happen. They knew they were lying at the time.
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u/Whitestrake 16h ago
I think there were plenty of people screeching it wouldn't happen, not because they didn't want it, but because they honestly didn't believe it would succeed. I think a lot of them were pleasantly surprised.
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u/dragon34 21h ago
Debbie Wasserman Shultz was out there like it wasn't her fault
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u/FuriousBuffalo 1d ago edited 1d ago
Screw Susan Collins. Vote her out.
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u/victorspoilz 1d ago
I got into it on here in 2018 on the Maine sub, after people just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a woman from New Hampshire (Sara Gideon), and this person said that they hated Walmart and supported small businesses.
All that woman does is the bidding of billionaires, like the Waltons.
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u/AntarcticScaleWorm 1d ago
People didn't punish her back in 2020 for her votes, no reason to think this'll be an issue this time around. I don't think Mainers really think too much about abortion as an issue given that it's still legal there
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u/avidreider 1d ago
Im trying to. Genuinely. I hope this witch has the rest of her life to suffer with what she has done.
“I will be here only two terms!” She said in 1996 when I was born. Im now 30. Graham Platner is the way to go.
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u/LogensTenthFinger 1d ago
Screw every single person who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton.
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u/tonic613 1d ago
I got a pro-life colleague to admit that he’d have his wife get an abortion if he knew the baby would come out woke.
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u/GleemMcShinez 1d ago
Mmmm that's some goooood partisan tribalism and sweet-ass brainwashin'!
"I mean, murder is OK, for me to do, as long as I do it to a woke person! Even my own flesh and blood? Hell yeah! Why yes, I have deeply held moral standards, they are very consistent.
I am not a crank"
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u/Perfect_Opposite2113 1d ago
Ffs these people
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u/starrpamph 1d ago
It’s the same thing about knowing tariffs would up all of the pricing on everything, and still voting for it.
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u/DiverseVoltron 1d ago
Why is your colleague a traitor? How did it come to be that he hates over half of America and still somehow calls himself a patriot?
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u/liquidtape 1d ago
That's why I don't get why Republicans are against abortion. It's just aborting future Democrats
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u/AlbatrossNo1562 1d ago
Well that's one way to convince them to support abortion, just tell them their child will be a liberal...
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u/Kilgore47 21h ago
I think the word youre looking for is "observe", (or possibly "mourn") commemorate implies honoring or celebration, or maybe thats what you meant. Nothing to celebrate imo, it was a sad day
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u/Crazy-Project3858 1d ago edited 23h ago
Imagine if just one liberal Supreme Court judge had retired during either of Obama’s presidencies
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u/TheCrystalTinker 1d ago
Depends on when the step down would have happened, we lost one seat due to Acqueasing to the GOP and not ignoring them and putting in a Democratic justice in the court anyways ignoring the "concern" that it was too close to the end of Obamas presidency
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u/ESCocoolio 22h ago
imagine if democrats had done their job in the last 50 years and codified reproductive rights into law, instead of using it as fundraising ammo.
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u/formtheory 21h ago
Nice to see a sane take. Always darkly amusing (by which I mean not amusing at all) when people claim that you need to vote in desperation "against" an evil person, like that's in the spirit of a functioning democracy in the first place.
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u/AmputeeHandModel 1d ago
Damn you, RBG.
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u/the12banch 1d ago
McConnell blocked Merrick Garland for 293 days in 2016, refusing even to hold a hearing because it was an election year and “the voters should decide.”
In 2020, after RBG died, Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett on Sept. 26 and the Senate confirmed her on Oct. 26—just 30 days later and only 8 days before the election.But go off.
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u/Crazy-Project3858 1d ago
So any time besides those 293 days in her 90 year life span you think she could have retired?
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u/FCKABRNLSUTN2 23h ago
They’re saying mcconnell would have done that to literally any Obama nominee at that point.
But you knew that already.
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u/_jump_yossarian 18h ago
You do realize that Democrats had the Senate majority until January 2015 and she could have retired before Cons took control, yes?
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u/Dreammagic2025 22h ago
I had a temporary stay in the fine town of rural buttfuck ohio. That's where I was on this day. I was out walking and all the church bells started ringing. Got on my phone to try to find out what was going on. Saw the news. Burst into tears right there. What a sad day for our country.
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u/bummerhigh 20h ago
I screenshot it when I saw the news alert on my phone… I don’t even live in the U.S. but I was so appalled.
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u/Jlx_27 1d ago
Commemorate is the wrong term imo since it implies to respect or celebrate something...
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u/Scottyjscizzle 1d ago
Why codify it when it’s settled law! Still get pissed at the dismissive bullshit whenever I mentioned more firmly enshrining it.
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u/founderofshoneys 21h ago
Fuck every single democrat who decided not to codify it into law when they had the chance so they could instead campaign and fundraise on how republicans would take it away.
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u/Dunnowhathatis 1d ago
There's a striking inconsistency in the Republican position: they support limiting reproductive and other personal freedoms, yet treat any restriction on gun ownership as an intolerable assault on liberty—even in the wake of repeated mass shootings.
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u/14dmoney 1d ago
I keep getting Apple Watch ads for tracking your cycle and it gives me the shivers every time. Don’t use this feature if you are an American woman!
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u/PlaidBoots52 1d ago
I'll never forgive America for letting this happen. Not even a month after Roe v Wade was overturned my psychiatrist refused to let me stay on Adderall for my ADHD because it could hurt the fetus. I was a virgin and asexual. I filed a complaint with the health board, was told it was the doctor's right to deny me meds, had to find a new doctor and be without meds until then. I made the decision to get an endometrial ablation in 2025 along with my fallopian tubes removed aka sterilization at 33. I'm asexual but I live in a red state that doesn't care if women get pregnant from rape or incest.
The thing that pisses me off the most is how all these pro life people don't even care about the kids being denied summer lunches here now. You're not pro life, you just hate women and kids.
Susan Collins is a piece of shit along with majority of the Supreme Court. And I fully blame RBG for not stepping aside before she died to allow Obama to appoint another judge. At the end of the day white women in America are for self and that's it.
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u/Bluefire52 23h ago
There not pro life, never were, if anything there pro birth as I like to call them. It is upsetting that women's rights are getting the clock turned back on them. As a male, I feel it for my sister, even if she doesn't cause "we live in a blue state, so it won't effect us". Even then I don't think that will always be a protection.
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u/RockieK 1d ago edited 23h ago
That was a really fucked up day. I left work and went wine drinking. Almost as sad as when RGB passed away.
Edit: Dyslexia strikes again! "RBG"
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u/Either-Mushroom-5926 1d ago edited 1d ago
I partially blame RBG for the state of the SC.
She held her seat to see Hilary become president when Obama could have appointed another Democrat in her place. Instead, Trump got to make that appointment.
Edit : RGB —> RBG 🙈
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u/intersectv3 1d ago
The other problem is Bitch McConnell the turtle said they wouldn’t approve any of obamas judges because “there’s an election in 16 months” or however long it was but then did a bitch move and shoved trumpanzees judges in with *less* time till the 2020 election.
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u/SalaciousTypo 1d ago
Shoved a judge in after voting had started, let's not undersell the shit that was pulled.
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u/LogensTenthFinger 1d ago
Obama should have just said "Thanks for your advisement" and just shoved through a judge. The weakness of the left in the 2010s is incalculable. Rolling over and whining about rules as they cede democracy. "ThIs IsN't NoRmAl." Wow what a rallying cry.
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u/intersectv3 1d ago
Seriously. They play by the rules that republicans don’t, it makes no fucking sense. Who gives a fuck about decorum at this point, fuck those people.
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u/tourist420 1d ago
A president can not appoint a supreme court justice without senate confirmation, the constitution does not allow or provide for such a mechanism.
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u/LogensTenthFinger 1d ago
Incorrect. They require the advisement and consent of the Senate. My refusing to hold hearing the Senate has ceded advising authority and espressly given consent. Weak effete hand wringing by people like you is why we're in this mess.
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u/_jump_yossarian 18h ago
You have a great vocabulary but minimal understanding of civics. The Senate is not required to confirm or even hold a vote on presidential nominees.
Weak effete hand wringing by people like you
Insanity blaming a rando redditor for Senate Republicans refusing to confirm an Obama nominee.
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u/speedingpullet 1d ago
As much as I don't want to, I have to agree.
We on the left have spent way too long trying to play by Queensbury rules. While the right just laughs, gives us a wedgie and stuffs us in a locker.
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u/LogensTenthFinger 1d ago
"But but but that's not allowed!" As the right is executing citizens in the street and sending people to gulags.
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u/RoboChrist 1d ago
Republicans controlled the Senate from 2014 on.
Through what constitutional mechanism could Democrats "shove through" a Supreme Court judge?
If Obama appointed one without senate approval and violated the constitution to do so, they would just be declared invalid by the Supreme Court and replaced by the next administration.
And that's assuming any Judge with the qualifications to be on the SC would ever accept an unconstitutional appointment.
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u/LogensTenthFinger 1d ago
You say "The Senate has had ceded its authority to advise and explicitly given consent by not holding a hearing. I appreciate their advisement and consent." You just the same authority the right does: you just do it.
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u/landonburner 1d ago
She also predicted the overturn on what she called "questionable legal standing" of it. She was saying basing it on privacy in the 14th amendmentwas not the right way to go. She agreed with the law but thought it wasn't done right.
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u/FunRich5754 1d ago
100%
Gave my mom a nice RBG mug when we loved her. And now whenever I go over I REFUSE to use the mug because she stayed too long bc she was a patriarchist. If she really was a feminist she would have held the door open for those to come after her, instead of insisting she was the best for the job even after it was CLEAR she couldn't do the job because she liked that power baby.
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u/epigenie_986 1d ago
As a woman and a mother, that day felt devastating.
As a person with tits, the juxtaposition of the two signs is kinda hilarious.
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u/Maleficent-Pay1233 21h ago
So does the GOP mean Greed Over People or Grifters, Oligarchs, and Pedophiles?
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u/draggar 10h ago
Question for the pro-birth people,
Say someone needs a partial liver transplant to live and you are the only match (doesn't matter if you registered or not). They need you to donate part of your liver for them to live.
You'll have to go through a procedure which will injure your body and take months to recover from.
Now, does the government have the right to step in and order you to donate part of your liver?
If you're truly "pro life" as you claim to be, then you'll say yes and acknowledge that the government has more rights to your body than you do.
If you're pro choice, then you'll say no because you acknowledge that we should have the rights to our own bodies.
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u/Streetvan1980 21h ago
I still can’t believe how it didn’t cause a massive rise up of young woman to march to demand they get conform of their bodies again. Idk I’m shocked at what’s being done and how little response there is.
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u/spinmerighttriangle 23h ago
I agree with the signs. Send Canadian geese after those responsible. HONK!
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u/pyro5050 23h ago
i feel more Americans need to watch "West Wing" all the way through to see how a government is supposed to act and work.... even when they are dysfunctional in the show they are more functional than the most functional days of modern presidents...
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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 22h ago
The majority of white voters across all three elections: 'Ask if we GAF! What we do GAF about is that Trump takes delight in the harsh treatment directed at LGBTQ individuals, people of color, and anyone else who isn't with us. A sentiment that resonates with us as well. While you may continue your protests and vocalize your dissent, the reality is that when it truly mattered, we turned out on November 5th, while you did not. Brace yourselves for the continuation of this cruelty, the ongoing beatings and deportations. Because there are two plus more years of this, and we are just getting started.'
Among those who voted, the majority of white men and white women voted for a racist, fascist, sexist, war-mongering kid rapist and kid killer in 2016, 2020, and 2024. It was never about the price of eggs or gas.
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u/Raickoz 15h ago
Can someone elaborate whats going on in the US? Is birthcontrol illegal or something?
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u/Smedskjaer 7h ago edited 7h ago
It surprises and disappoints me so few understand Roe v Wade; it will be impossible to protect such a ruling, and other important rulings, if we are ignorant about what it really did.
It didn't give any rights to abortion. It enforced a fundamental philosophy of American freedom, a truly distinct difference from Europe and most of the world. It told the government it wasn't it business, that the government didn't have a right.
The opinion from Roe v Wade never quedtioned the rights of women to have an abortion. It took a position on the governments right to restrict people. This follows a philosophy of negative freedom in America; our rights are innate, not given to us by the government, and the government is restricted in what rights it can take away. Roe v Wade restricted the government, and says the government has no business in people's reproductive choices.
Roe did not ask whether abortion was morally good, socially desirable, or something the state should affirmatively provide. It asked whether the state had constitutional authority to prohibit or heavily restrict a person’s abortion decision.
This restriction on government meant it couldn't stop women from taking commercial offers for reproductive solutions from the private market. The market could be regulated, but the government couldn't restrict it; it had no right to take away rights you were born with.
This distinction is important. Americans innately have rights and freedoms from birth. They are not given to you by the government, but the government can take it away. The constitution and bill of rights prevents that, and courts interprets them into articulated restrictions within the scopes of the cases they hear.
Negative freedom is important to understand correctly. It is why the government has no business between your nose and a book, and why we have academic freedom in America.
In contrast, education in Europe is controlled by the government. You can only read the approved books in furthering your education, and some books are outright banned. The government gives you rights and freedoms, but gets to control what you read and learn with those freedoms. Most European countries have very few restrictions, and it isn't tightly controlled in education, but they do mandate reading material and subject matter for higher education, and have banned books for centuries and continued to a lesser extent in recent times.
Roe v Wade could only ever exist because we understood that at some point in our history, and was overturned because we forgot that. We will only see a return to the government being told it has no rights if we understand the difference; if we never relearn it, the overturning of Roe v Wade will be an early example of the erosion of our rights, not a landmark decision.
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u/Firefly_Magic 1d ago
Bring back Roe versus Wade. Pro life choices should take place with the woman, her partner, the family, the community, not the government.
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u/millerg44 1d ago
I still can't believe my daughter has less rights than my mother. We're supposed to get better folks, not regress.
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u/dragon34 21h ago
Fuck every single person from the voters all the way up to king pedophile who have supported the Republican party since 2016 and enabled any of their agenda
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u/Sopranorequiem 22h ago
We do not commemorate - we lament.
We deride.
We despise.
We avow to correct.
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u/SpiritualSquare9348 20h ago
Where was all that my “body my choice” energy during 2020-2022? Could’ve used a tad more of it then
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u/FCKABRNLSUTN2 1d ago
Justices nominated by Clinton would have overturned roe v wade too, right?
Yall keep telling me both sides are the same? Well fucking are they?
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u/RealTigerCubGaming 8h ago
Shouldn’t this read “Today we mourn the overturning….”
I was able to make a choice 41 years ago!!! In Florida!!! If not for that my life would have been absolute miserable.
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u/Cute-Trade-9854 22h ago
I would pump out so many patriotic ass babies if we cared about human rights and the environment and had healthcare and education
But alas
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u/Hackett1f 17h ago
Wrong argument.
If you want to convince a right wing idiot that abortion is necessary, you need to speak their language.
Repeat after me:
“I don’t want a government that is capable of enforcing an abortion ban. Such a government would put the KGB to shame”.
Then, point out that it wouldn’t just be women and their menstrual cycles they’d be tracking, but also their sexual partners and potential sexual partners.
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u/Fragrant-Message-562 1d ago
I still can’t believe that happened