Roe v. Wade is gone.

[Belacqua]

We need to campaign for the reinstatement of Roe:

Can Roe v. Wade be reinstated...

No more Republican Presidents, at least conservative ones.

And I think that the path for such a future might be (at least theoretically) easy to pull off.

I’ve mentioned before that the only Republican President to be elected by a majority of the popular vote since I was born was Dubya in 2004. Bush’s first term and Trump’s only term only happened because of the Electoral College. Get rid of that, no more Republican presidents. And if the NPVIC ends up enacted by enough states (enough states have passed it for 190 of the 538 seats in the electoral college to be covered by it with 45 pending [Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania]; theoretically, if those three states plus Florida or Texas enact it, we’ve got 270 right there), we’re well on our way to decimating the Republican Party’s future chances at the White House for the foreseeable future.

Another factor to consider is that many red-leaning states have these bullshit regulations on who’s allowed to vote and how. This usually has the effect of reducing voter turnout, especially of demographics less likely to vote for Republicans, and sometimes, if not always, that’s explicitly the point. Get rid of those restrictions, you’d likely never see another Republican in the White House. And Trump agrees on this point.

If this works the way I expect it to, nothing short of a radical sea change in their politics (ideally to something less batshit and less hostile to the existence of people who aren’t white, cisgender, male, Christian, and wealthy) will get them in.

If anybody is serious about reinstating Roe, it will take more than just voting out Republicans. It will also require all new Democrat leadership.

Pelosi campaigned for an anti-abortion candidate last month, in a primary race where the opponent was pro-choice. Hillary's running mate was anti-abortion. She famously said "feminists can be pro-choice." Biden is a Catholic and has always been anti-abortion, except sometimes when campaigning. He supported the Hyde Amendment for a long time. He also worked to get Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, defending him against Anita Hill. Obama promised in his first campaign to codify Roe into law "on day one," but then did nothing, despite supermajorities in both houses of Congress. 

For years Dems have used the issue to campaign on and raise donations, but take almost no action. 

Even today, there are serious actions they could take, like ending the filibuster to vote on pro-choice legislation. Instead, Pelosi's response was to read a pro-Israel poem and send out a fundraising e-mail. 

They've seen this coming for years -- the Republicans have been promising it -- and are totally unprepared.