It is sad to have to take part in this death watch for the United States Supreme Court.
In about six months, the half dozen Republican-appointed Justices of that once-respected and admired court will do what they were appointed to do: overrule ROE vs WADE and once again allow primarily old white men control the bodies of primarily young women of all colors.
Oh, to be sure, there will be all sorts of explanations for why they were "compelled" to flush the concepts of precedent and stare decisis down into the sewer of conservative hypocrisy, but it will boil down to this: they were bought and paid for---some recently, some decades ago---and they simply did what they were paid to do.
No reasonable person of conscience will truly respect the SCOTUS after the banner of ROE is slashed down by this disgusting panel of disingenuous right-wing operatives. And, no one can say just exactly what the effect will be when the shroud slips off of the "For Sale" sign outside the Supreme Court building, but the Judiciary Branch IS one of the three branches upon which our government rests.
And, we know what happens when one leg of a three-legged stool breaks.
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The Senate is broken due to Senate rules - notanything Constitutional.
The SC is broken iperiod. We need an amendment to fix it. No more life appointments - have a method for a Vote of 'No Confidence' by The People to force a Justice to do their job.
Between Roe and now, how many tens of thousands of women would have died while waiting for Republican state legislatures grant them a right they already have, the right to control their own bodies? How many more women will die in botched illegal abortions once Roe is overturned? Or SCOTUS issues a ruling which, while not overruling Roe outright, achieves that result de facto.
Would any Red state ever consider passing a law codifying the principles of Roe? 
During the 2010 election the Repug battle cry was, "Work, work, work!" After they took over, it was suddenly, "Abortion, abortion, abortion!" During their first year in control of the statehouses, Republicans filed more than 1,000 anti-abortion bills -- and no jobs bills.
Currently, the Repugs control 27 state legislatures, and nearly all have laws in place that will be triggered the moment the SCOTUS overturns Roe. Most completely ban abortion in toto. Banning birth control is most likely the "pro-life" party's next goal. Gotta keep those donations flowing.
Young girls who are just reaching the age of gestation will be in menopause before anything of consequence will be done nationwide to return us to the moment just before SCOTUS issued its ruling to annihilate Roe.
Trump, Roe, Manchin, GQP. Drip-drip-drip on the way to authoritarianism.
I had/have hopes, yet took a large hit in 2016. Just the hate was/is enough. Add grift, crimes against humanity, the shameless boasting of a sexual predator as POTUS...and more more more. Now the SC. 
At least AT THIS TIME we have a POTUS for all Americans, even that loud minority of white nationalists trying to take over the government and destroy our experiment in democracy. I DO DESPAIR AND HAVE TRUE FEAR. Yet I can't believe that the decent American will be vanquished by these loudmouth sexist hate mongers. And greedy predatory capitalists.
Sadly… I can add nothing else 
