Hillary Clinton warned us this day would come

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Opinion by Colbert I. King

My response to the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision allowing the Texas law prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect will be cold comfort to women in the state who have lost control over their bodies. Adequate words fall short of the mark even for me, a member of the Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington’s board of directors before joining The Post’s Editorial Board in 1990.

The best I can express is outrage over such a cruel Texas government action and dismay at the Supreme Court’s complicity in snubbing the Constitution.

I’m also sick at heart because five years ago, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton put the country on notice that this day could come.

While celebrating the Supreme Court’s June 27, 2016, decision rejecting of two restrictive provisions in a Texas House bill regulating abortion, Clinton warned in a campaign release that the fight for the right to access health care, and for women to make their own decisions about their bodies and their futures, was “far from over.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/04/hillary-clinton-warned-us-this-day-would-come/

[BigmanPigman]

2. She warned us about a lot...

but Putin and tRump worked together to keep her silent...and they won via Cambridge Analytica and social media. My theory is that Putin hated Hillary with such a passion he would do ANYTHING to spoil her chances. Putin is afraid of Hillary since she is smart and on the ball. My theory is that Putin is a small, misogynistic "man" (in both body and mind) and he knows it. tRump on the other hand, well......is both and greedy and corrupt, like Putin, but he is a fucking moron.

We are falling down a rabbit hole and have been. Just because Biden won and is doing a fucking fantastic job doesn't mean that this is our future. Too many outside/foreign influences and social media access to a lot of simple minded morons makes reelecting a Dem extremely difficult, even/especially after 2020!

[Moebym]

5. I love and admire her

But no, I don't believe she should run in '24, for many reasons.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Great editorial

Link to tweet

The results are in. Of the five Supreme Court justices who allowed Texas to implement the strictest abortion ban in the nation, three — Neil M. Gorsuch in 2017, Brett M. Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 — were appointed by President Trump.

You may argue back and forth whether fair warning is ever fair play. But there’s no disputing the fact that Clinton’s red alert came in plenty of time for voters caring about women’s rights to plan how to deal with Trump on Election Day. Did it fall on deaf ears?

Clinton handily won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college. Too many voters, in states where they were needed, failed to turn out or skipped her name on the ballot. The whys of it are being debated to this day. The fact is that some voters might have heard what she said was at stake but still chose to follow the alluring sounds of Trump’s snake-oil campaign.

Had truth won out in 2016, this dark day for women’s rights could have been avoided.

But, perhaps, some consolation might come with the thought that Texas’s dreadful law might serve to mobilize women’s health voters — across the entire gender spectrum — to do what apparently too many failed to do five years ago: flock to the polls to protect reproductive freedom like there’s no tomorrow. There wasn’t one for candidate Clinton five years ago. There should be plenty of tomorrows, however, for the cause of reproductive rights and justice — if voters, next time around, respond as they should have when Hillary Clinton first sounded the alarm.

Now, there’s no excuse.