I just want to add a comment to those thinking the voting marital name change issue is not a problem

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163. Did you believe that Roe vs Wade could never be overturned? Or the Voting Rights Act be gutted? The GOP ...

… with the help of Mitch McConnell, has created a SCOTUS that will support anything they bring it that strikes down our freedoms.

There is no “only way it can happen” anymore. Trump tweets Exec. Orders at 2 a.m. and signs them at 2 p.m. His attitude is “stop me if you can” and no one does.

Believe us when we tell you this new and “impossible” plan is a poll-tax on women almost exclusively, and will become a major stumbling block to voting for all the reasons already given here. Don’t perseverate on just one brick (birth certs) in the roadblock — there are many pieces of paper to gather, and hope you haven’t lost in your last big move.

MAGAGOP wants to disenfranchise as much of the population as possible, and reduce competition for white men’s rightful place. Women are 52%. That’s a big chunk of the population all at once, of every race.

SCOTUS finally got Dobbs up before it, which in case you didn’t notice, impacts women almost exclusively. It’s very hard to compete with men on anything like an equal footing when you have a 50/50 or merely random chance of getting pregnant every month. (Please do read Dobbs if you haven’t. It’s not that long, and comments by Thomas and Alito lay out future plans for “revisiting” the rights to contraception, and to marriage both interracial and gay)

This is about the third time I’ve tried to write out a version of this — yesterday our house connection to the internet kept dropping randomly. Good old Spectrum. Hubby works from home, so it’s not just a minor irritation for me. In any case, this morning I saw this thread again and realized I still wanted to say it. Hope it was worth it. Aaaaand Post.