The Rude Pundit - You Wanna Keep Harassing Women at Clinics? Then Let's Play

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111. And after they take away our reproductive rights - just watch. Our voting rights will be next.

There actually are people out there who think most of the trouble in this country began when women won the right to vote. Astonishing!!!! I mean, why should they stop at birth control? And who else's rights will be taken or eroded after that?

If I were in the gay community, I'd already be worried. And be PLANNING. LGBT Friends: DO NOT think you're home free on this! DO NOT let down your guard! DO NOT assume they won't be back to fight you and screw you over another day. DO NOT assume for one nanosecond that it's time to relax and become complacent, that your rights are widely acknowledged and protected now, and that you can relax in the confidence that this is settled now. Your fight is NOWHERE NEAR over. They're gonna come back - again and again and again. Just look at the template we all have to study from now: ALEC. Watch 'em like hungry hawks. And be ready.

Take a hard, cold lesson from what's happened to us women on the pro-choice front. Roe v Wade has been whittled away and chipped away and weakened and compromised until it is now on the ropes. How many women have YOU personally heard, either among friends or in the news - "WHY are we still fighting this? I thought this was settled!" How many times have you heard that just in the last year?

Take a hard, cold lesson from what's happened to the right to vote. How many blacks have you seen, either in news coverage or maybe you know some of them, who have been voting literally for decades and now, all of a sudden, there are all kinds of new complications and obstacles thrust in their way. HOW MANY TIMES have you heard or seen this, just in the last year?

DO NOT GET COMPLACENT!!!! You will live to regret it. THEY do not consider this over. Why should you? They'll be back - GUARANTEED. Until they get THEIR win on this, and unfortunately, these assholes don't give up. Which means - NEITHER SHOULD WE!!!!!!