Fiat Lux

Scott and I were chatting tonight, and he must have noticed the distinct lack of happiness in my voice, because he asked me what was wrong.

"This", I said.

"I can't believe we have to do this all over again. It's one thing to fight for rights you don't already have, but I hate it that now we have to go out and fight for rights we've already got," I said.

"They don't consider it over until they've won, honey," he said. "They started fighting with Roe and they've kept on fighting, and they're going to keep it up until they've gotten rid of Roe."

"Yeah," I sighed. "You're right. But I still hate it."

Digby is of a similar mind.

They really mean it. This is no bullshit. There is no downside to overturning Roe for them --- and if there is, they don't care. If they want to overturn Griswald, they'll do that too. They fought the gun control fight when people were freaking out over crime in the streets and political assassinations. Conservative absolutists don't give up just because liberals get up-in-arms.

[snip]

But more than anything else we must accept the fact that these people are serious. They want to outlaw abortion and they want to curtail people's access to birth control. They aren't lying. And as they've shown with gun rights, they are in it for the long haul. We must be just a stubborn as they are and seek to wear them down rather than let them wear us down.

Digby and Scott are right. We need to fight. The Right is smelling blood in the water on all aspects of women's reproductive self-determination, and they think they are closing in for the kill. We cannot let that happen.

Still, I want to note how much it completely sucks that we have to go back and fight this battle All. Over. Again.

Once should have been enough.