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This Week in the War on Women [1]

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Date: 2022-07-02

It’s monsoon season in Arizona, and, although the storms were far away, I kept losing electricity and therefore my modem, for a couple of hours. So this diary is low on research, but I did want to express some of what I’m feeling this Fourth of July weekend.

This week was dominated by reactions to the Dobbs decision and the sixth publiic hearing of the July 6th committee that featured one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson — and ended with the easy-to-miss swearing in of our first black woman Supreme Court Justice, Katanji Brown Jackson. I want to begin by applauding three women involved in these events — Liz Cheney, Cassidy Hutchinson, and Justice Jackson. This seems appropriate for the July Fourth weekend edition of WoW — these very different women who are fighting to preserve the ideas we are supposed to be celebrating on Independence Day. Honorable people can disagree on almost everything — Liz Cheney is a Cheney, for heaven’s sake, and Cassidy Hutchinson has worked for such Republicans as Ted Cruz and was an aide in Trump’s White House because she supported Trump. But both deserve a moment of honor as we go on with the fight to get our country back and make it better.

However, the week has mostly been about how we are losing freedom. Abortion bans, some dating back to the 19th or early 20th century, are becoming effective in too many states after the Dobbs decision. And it’s not just reproductive rights in jeopardy — Clarence Thomas’ concurrence made clear that sodomy laws may be revived, gay marriage once again left to the states, and the right to use contraceptives taken away. Cases will be filed in the next couple of years, without a doubt. The party of small government is looking to become a peeping Tom.

And state governments in many states like mine of AZ, are giving legislatures or others the ability to overturn election results, the kind of authoritarian takeover of power that led to January 6th. It’s ongoing. The coup hasn’t failed, it’s just readjusting its tactics.

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