[lapcat]

Think of it this way though: 50 years of legal precedent was overturned last year. Women who are young enough to get abortions have lived their entire lives not being considered murderers, legally. Abortion was an explicitly protected legal right. Now suddenly, a woman is transformed overnight from a citizen freely exercising their legal right into an illegal murderer — but of course only in certain localities. How are they supposed to deal with this massive U-turn? Can we not empathize with them?

It's one thing to make providing abortions illegal. It's quite another thing to prosecute the women.

[TedDoesntTalk]

Sounds opposite to what’s going on with pot in many states. Illegal for decades. Now legal. Massive U-turn.

Laws of the land change, like everything else in this world.

[lapcat]

The crucial difference is that pot users don't suffer from the massive U-turn. Rather, they celebrate it. They're the ones who lobbied for the change.

Suddenly making people happy and freer is fine. Suddenly making them miserable and taking away their longstanding rights is another matter.

It's the same thing with women getting the right to vote in 1920. Women themselves wanted it and lobbied for it!