“Despite the left’s predictions, the fall of Roe hasn’t ushered in a “Handmaid’s Tale” dystopia”.

This is really in the eye of the beholder isn’t it, interesting that another recent article shows an increase in child deaths and attacks on IVF and people arguing against no fault divorce feel pretty dystopian. Aside from the fact I think there’s really no way anti-abortion activists don’t want to make it illegal at the federal level as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/24/texa...

I’ve been really interested in this idea of people should be able to choose their own government recently though. It’s I think a thing that sounds good but doesn’t really mean anything. Any time you start to limit individual freedoms in this way, especially when it aligns with a religion it makes me wonder, who is really choosing? Do people really “choose” a government that reflects a minority opinion(I mean this with the Dobb’s decision but also other arguments in favor of more authoritarian governments). Can you say people “choose” a government if that government is not a liberal democracy. Like this is an argument against overthrowing someone like Saddam Hussein.