They'll be Women's Protest size and last for maybe half the summer then everyone involved with them will accept how powerless they really are in the face of our right wing dystopia and give up, as they should. And any media attention to abortion rights, good or bad, will cease before the midterm election season really ramps up, therefore proving how this will have no net benefit for Democrats' chances for the party not to go extinct this year.
Progressive Pessimist, your post is really pessimistic. Women will never give up. We have been making inroads into equality and women's rights in incremental steps down through history. Some forward, some backward. Yes we often do feel powerless and resigned, but we bounce back. We are used to this. That's why nobody will ever be able to tell a female not to have an abortion because we will find a way. And not only that, our numbers are growing and our voices are getting louder.
I believe there will be a net benefit for Democrats in the coming election. In fact, I believe that because of this latest abortion revelation, women are going to come out in droves to vote against the GOP. Against repression and against going backwards in time.
You'll see.
I appreciate your optimism, and the women of this country who will do all they can for this cause, but what can they actually do? The only real resolution is an exceptionally timed Democratic President and Senate managing to take advantage of at least two retirements/deaths in the court and then eventually getting a case dealing with reproductive rights to come before it. Protests, and hell, even voting or financially supporting certain organizations can only do so much. At a certain point a Roe-free country will become the accepted, ir resigned to, norm until all those specific criteria are met. And even then, the damage will have been done and irreversible at that point.
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