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Dahlia Lithwick— AZ is like Dobbs
“the shock for most American women came with integrating this fundamental truth: No matter what the law says, you’re NOT equal.

…This odd, contradictory conviction that women don’t really matter enough to be treated as adult moral actors in their own right…
05:26 PM - Apr 15, 2024
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“…but also that women can be relied upon to organize, gather signatures, show up at the polls, & fix democracy & save us all, bc that is what women unfailingly do.

Both versions posit women & pregnant people as more or less the scullery maids of constitutional democracy, willing to do all the work…
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“…but never quite managing to gain all the autonomy & dignity that doing all the work ought to bring with it.”
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hoo boy. Lithwick on Roe (which mentioned "physicians" more than "women"):

“Physicians had rights. States had rights. Protestors had rights. Women had whatever was left over after all that large-scale apportionment of how everyone else’s rights played out.”

clear eyed, devastating, infuriating.
06:11 PM - Apr 15, 2024
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