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They are already doing it, they are not just anti-abortion, they are anti birth control, they already have cases before the courts, and trying to write laws even at the federal level - to allow pharmacist who have a "consciences" not be prosecuted if they refuse birthcontol in situations they don't approve of, ie the person getting the prescription is unmarried, or day after pill, or just that they don't approve of birth control period.
Anyone with a sense of history, knows the original anti-abortion groups grew out of the existing anti-birth control movements of the last century, ok folks here is a test - when was the date of the last state that legalized birthcontrol?????
South Carolina 1964 - folks humans are very resistant to change, part of it is that as most people age they become more conservative and take up the beliefs of the previous generation, when a social change hasn't outlived the generation that generated it, the probability of the change out lasting that generation is surprisingly low. Here is a research project - the 1890's were actually very liberal, but every progressive change they made was over turned in their lifetime after the turn of the century when the country become more conservative. For a change to last, it needs longevity, if abortion rights fall, the right to birth control, and a whole list of other socially progressive changes made in the 60's are also in danger, they don't just stop because they reached one objective, on the contrary they will be emboldened, and go after other social changes they don't like. Women's rights, racial rights, social security, welfare, property laws, torte laws - oh that's right they are already actively doing all of the above. What will they do after they over turn Roe vs Wade - folks they already see it as won, they are on to the rest of the list, why the Democrates sold out to corporations, and lost sight of the social agenda.
