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It's a small thing in the bruising week we've just had. But I couldn't help but cringe at the return of pussy hats and "Nasty Woman" shirts at some of the protests responding to the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. As I wrote in a column today, the reflexive urge to dust off resistance merch this week, amid a seismic gut-punch, feels woefully out of step with the cruel reality that's been laid bare this week. That despite years of resistance, from the aesthetic to the ballot box, the right to legal abortion is about to get destroyed. But it's also a small embarrassment compared to the weird urge to relitigate so much of 2016 this week, as well as the curiously recycled messaging we've been hearing from our Democratic leaders: Arguably the most egregious bout of deja vu came from Democratic leaders, who in their scramble to respond to this week's SCOTUS bombshell, effectively copied and pasted language ripped straight from the Trump era in order to try to rally the base from despair. "The elections this November will have consequences because the rights of 100 million women are now on the ballot," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a crowd one day after the SCOTUS leak. If that sounds familiar, it's because it is. Meanwhile, most Dems still can't come out and say the word "abortion." Sure, President Biden, in his first statement on this week's leak, did manage to squeak out the word. But as Rebecca Traister points out, it's no accident that it got buried four paragraphs deep in a statement otherwise cloaked in the safe language of a woman's choice.
With leadership like that, who can blame people for reaching for their RBG pearls right now? —Inae Oh |
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The justice claims "this Nation's history and tradition" oppose the practice. Exactly whose history is he considering? |
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