Today's News: Pro-Choice Underground

The world is not laughing at you anymore America. We’re aghast in horror.

— Mark (@Markfry809) June 25, 2022

Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman writes: 

It is no exaggeration to say that the Dobbs decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by four other conservatives, is an act of institutional suicide for the Supreme Court. 

The legitimacy of the modern court depends on its capacity to protect the vulnerable by limiting how the majority can infringe on basic rights to liberty and equality. 

The Dobbs majority not only takes the court out of that business. It holds that the court should never have expanded the protection of liberty and equality in the first place.

 ...State legislatures can and will now pass laws that violate or eliminate those rights. The lower courts will have to adjudicate them. Ultimately the Supreme Court will have to weigh in again. 

The reason all this will happen is that the court didn’t just overturn Roe. By overturning Casey, it called into question the core idea that the justices follow precedent. Casey stood for the idea that the court would uphold its past decisions absent a major, transformative reason to do so. Under Casey, lower courts would leave precedent in place. 

That norm is now gone. It’s open season on fundamental rights. 

 ...the modern Constitution will never be the same. Neither will the Supreme Court. 

Dobbs will go down as one of the worst decisions in the court’s history. Dobbs reverses rights on which the whole country has relied for half a century. The court has never done that before. The consequences will be disastrous — and far-reaching. 

History may look back at the period in which we are living and call it The Great Regression. It is a time in which on issue after issue, we are seeing decades and sometimes centuries of progress reversed. We have never seen anything like this before in our history.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) June 25, 2022

We're a little over 5 months away from drowning witches

— david cross✍ (@davidcrosss) June 26, 2022

And it is getting very weird, very fast. 

America now has a new cottage industry, a kind of pro-choice underground sub-culture now developing quickly, with the goal of alerting women whether states have abortion access, and helping women in need to travel to the states that do, or to Canada. 

Here is advice on how to secretly find and book abortions using library computers so as to not leave any digital breadcrumbs for police agents to find.

just a little fyi from a friendly librarian: many libraries will allow you to use their public computers without a library card and most, if not all, of these computers wipe the history the moment you log off. just in case you have to do some research without using personal info.

— kiwi 🥝 (@kiwik1ng) June 25, 2022

And here's how to wipe a phone:

I am not a security expert in any capacity so please rely on those who are: https://t.co/lhK8m7fVAw

— Charlotte Shane (@CharoShane) June 26, 2022