Me either. People around me when the news leaked said both that I was completely overreacting and that the court would never, ever renege on the precedent set. I told them they were wrong. Even my therapist (an old lady) was like “it’s just not possible and I think you might be far too anxious about this.” Hoo boy. She at least apologized later after every single thing I predicted would happen, happened.

Because truly, the people who have been involved in this activism for decades have always known this right to abortion was tenuous. My state has caught wind of how screwy SCOTUS is right now and has been pushing through many many laws to codify them outside of the supreme court. We just codified the Miranda rights provision as a law. It’s crazy so much of our legal protections exist within a structure that’s basically been blown apart over the last year. People’s right to marry outside of their race and to people of the same sex are in a similar place. States need to get moving to protect their citizens.

Yeah. Although I think this situation is also happening in places like Illinois.

I live in a state that agreed to be a sanctuary state to people coming here for treatment. Border towns’ Planned Parenthoods are overrun with people seeking care and in-town waits for routine care are pushed farther out than usual due to the increase in patients. Colleges are having less students attend in red states and entire hospitals have shut down their birthing and NICU departments in some places that have banned abortion. Even in my safe state I fear that nothing is truly protected from federal interference. Fortunately my state government has a background of saying “fuck you” to some federal policies like marijuana legalization and immigrant reforms that were put into place by Trump. But like many people in a blue state I’m getting priced out of where I live, and the options for affordable alternatives has shrunk considerably.

Well it sounds like most of us really can’t! She’s probably just having a moment of irrationality as we all do from time to time. There’s probably something else going on but I doubt it’s worth it to try to figure it out.

Did she say why she was upset? Is she worried she’s eating too many? Just that she thought it was a prank and not nice?

I don’t think you’re an AH, but it does sound like your wife might be insecure about how much chocolate she’s been eating. I’m picturing her telling herself “I’ll let myself eat this much but then I’m back on a diet!” Or something to that effect. Then come to learn you’ve been foiling her plan in the background. Which is also something someone who is insecure about stuff might not want to say: that they are on a diet or worried about eating too much.

All just a bunch of assuming.

I live in Denver and in 2020 there was a proposed bill to limit abortion access. I had a vague idea of what TST did so my desperate googling landed me on their membership page. Now I keep my religious abortion ritual card in my pocket, just in case.

Which is fine because you can join another.