🧵 It’s #WomensEqualityDay, marking 102 years since the 19th amendment guaranteed a woman's right to vote. Women of all creeds protested for decades to earn this right, but many women of color continued to be barred from the ballot box for years after the 19th’s ratification.
Almost two months to the day after the Supreme Court lit 49 years of precedent on fire, it’s impossible to mark #WomensEqualityDay without recognizing the dire realities of Republicans’ post-Roe world.
In red states across the country, Republican lawmakers are inflicting stricter and stricter legislation criminalizing abortion and ripping away not only women’s bodily autonomy, but their economic independence.
🧵𝑻𝑯𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑫: The Supreme Court lit 49 years of precedent on fire, creating the nightmare reality the Republican Party has worked so damn hard for.
Let's take a look at where we are and where the GOP will drag our country, kicking & screaming, if given more of an opportunity.
At least 28 @NRCC-endorsed GOP challengers supported overturning #RoeVWade.
At least three vulnerable House Republicans & three @NRCC-endorsed challengers support 𝑗𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 (including @BlackmanForAZ in #AZ02 who also 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑗𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠).
🧵This is a dark day for America & for millions of women who just lost their fundamental right to control their own body and their own futures. The GOP has eroded access to reproductive freedom for decades, and this final blow drags our country, kicking and screaming, backwards.
This is what the Republican Party has worked *so* *damn* *hard* *for.* Six Supreme Court justices just lit 49 years of precedent on fire and opened the doors for the GOP to enact a nationwide abortion ban.
This decision will carry devastating and dire consequences that will result in death and in the jailing of women and doctors. The American people overwhelmingly wanted to protect #RoeVWade, but Republican extremism prevailed.
𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗: Republicans will never be able to evade culpability for their role in the #Jan6th insurrection.
Here’s why →
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟:
Extremist House Republicans fanned the flames that led to the #Jan6thInsurrection.
They perpetuated the Big Lie and deliberately misled the American people all to curry favor with a failed ex-President. nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/…
Publicly, 224 House Republicans failed to acknowledge the truth about the 2020 election, effectively ignoring millions of American voices. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…