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Other progressive lawmakers echoed that message, with Rep. Cori Bush declaring: "Abolish the filibuster. Codify Roe. Expand the Supreme Court. Protect abortion rights by any means necessary."
"Everything is on the table and clearly has been," said one observer. "Marriage equality. Griswold. Loving. Don't ever listen to anyone who tells you such fears are silly or overblown."
This draft Supreme Court decision, if adopted as final, will inflict enormous, needless damage. It is an affront to women, the U.S. Constitution, and human rights.
Unless the court is going to repudiate all of the other privacy rights, it is impossible to deny that laws prohibiting abortion also intrude on a woman's liberty.
Abortion rights and women's rights are directly tied to the health of U.S. democracy. Both are in free fall—and have been for some time. Where do we go from here?
