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Today's Supreme Court ruling is significant, and I'm grateful to Planned Parenthood and other groups defending women's right to health care. 

 

 

 (Planned Parenthood Action/Facebook)

 

 

 Can you IMAGINE making the heart-crushing decision to terminate a pregnancy?  It's not the casual decision many right wingers make it out to be.  You've thought about it, talked it over with a trusted person and possibly your Higher Power.  You've lost sleep.  But you know it's the right decision at this time.  So, you arrive at the Clinic in time for your procedure.  THEN you must pass through a gauntlet of people who likely never have faced, nor will face, dealing with the hard decision you have made.  They are taunting you, shoving gory pictures in your face and waving signs saying you're a murderer.

This is not "education."  This is not "God's will."  This  is engaging in over-the-top cruelty and an effort to control.  They won't give a rat's ass about any child a fetus grows into—unless it's their own; they will complain about the "lazy mother" getting any governmental assistance when she loses her job after being out for the birth.   Nor will they want to help her other 2 or 3 children in any way.  They just want to be sure the fetus is born...and then they have nothing further to say.  

Let's stand with Planned Parenthood and fight like we've never fought before.  We were ashamed that torture was used against our "enemies" during a recent war.  What the Supreme Court did today is sanction torturing American citizens...women exercising their legal right to privacy and health care.   SHAME ON EVERY JUSTICE WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF THIS TODAY.  We shall overcome!