Democratic leaders have repeatedly asked voters to trust them in a fight that, up to the very night Roe was struck down in draft form, they refused to accurately describe or perhaps even discern. rtraister writes
Protesters in New York City’s Foley Square demonstrate against a Supreme Court draft opinion striking down Roe v. Wade. Photo: Sabrina Santiago This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
Joe Biden waited until 9:30 Tuesday morning to publicly weigh in with a statement that was also allergic to the word abortion, mentioning it only once, four paragraphs down. Biden made pleas to “basic fairness” and “the stability of our law,” concluding with a message that it was “on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November.” Sir, we elected you, and you didn’t get out of bed to speak to the American people the night this devastating document leaked.
So no, where America finds itself is not in a world transformed by Donald Trump. Rather it’s one in which generations of Republicans have been open about their brutal aim, while Democratic leaders have repeatedly asked voters to trust them in a fight that, up to the very night Roe was struck down in draft form, they refused to accurately describe or perhaps even discern.
Among their most successful characters has been the fetus: a figure with pudgy cheeks and a fully formed heart, bearing little relationship to any developmental or biological reality. The lies built around the fetus are easily disproved; no party that actually valued this guy — and the culture of life, family, and innocence they claimed he embodied — would also starve real live children of food, housing, health care, and education.
So did her colleague Jackie Speier, a California congresswoman who in that same session was moved to unexpectedly speak of the abortion she’d had, when a wanted pregnancy had gone wrong at 17 weeks gestation. Later, Speier would describe how her offices had been flooded with calls from “people crying on the phone,” relaying their own experiences of having needed abortion care.
None of what is unfolding now is about short-term strategy or single-cycle results. Nor is it about a single presidential administration. When Roe is gutted or gone, we are looking at decades, lifetimes of harm, and a whole new terrain, in which the perils will not look like those of the past.
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