Posted on 06/09/2022 5:37:10 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Former first lady Michelle Obama urged her Instagram followers to “double down” on working to protect abortion rights in a post Thursday as the Supreme Court gets closer to ruling on an abortion rights case that could overturn Roe v. Wade.
“So we’ve got to get work today. We’ve got to press our elected leaders at every level to pull every lever they can to protect the right to safe, legal abortion — right now,” Obama wrote, urging voters to back political candidates who support abortion rights.
Her post comes about a month after a draft Supreme Court majority opinion on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban leaked to Politico, revealing the justices are poised to overturn Roe.
Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the draft was authentic but said it did not necessarily reflect the final views of the justices.
Former President Obama and the former first lady released a joint statement after the leak criticizing the opinion, saying it would “relegate the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues.”
In her Instagram post, Obama said a decision to overturn Roe would be the “culmination” of a decades-long effort to oppose abortion rights. She said those who have pushed for overturning Roe over the years have worked consistently through Republican and Democratic presidencies and successful and unsuccessful elections to achieve their goal.
“And if we want to shift the tide, we can’t afford to get cynical or throw our hands up and walk away,” she said. “We have to double down, get even more organized, and join the activists who’ve been doing this work away from the spotlight for so long.”
Mini revolution
You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price
I wonder what they mean and what they are trying to tell their supporters?
Moose-Shell is already a double-shot of protoplasm.
Sounds like a threat from big wide ass Mike?
“But right now, I’m gonna double down on a couple of Whoppers and Biggie Fries.”
Threatening SCOTUS justices sounds like insurrection to me. And I’m not taking about moose antler insurrection,either.That guy the other day was armed with something more dangerous than moose antlers.
We need to double down on trying you folks for treason, and then find a way to hang you from a satellite so half the world can see it happen.
The only reason the mostly compromised Supreme Court is doing this is to fire up DNC activists and volunteers for the next election. It’s not being done to protect babies or anything like that.
She wants two assassinations?
Sounds like someone is preparing to be installed in the presidency. She will be beloved. 😖
How ironic, since most abortions occur on black babies.
Message sent from the basement at the vineyard.
The Dems are trying, again, for the bLm riots.
“Doubt “she” was ever pregnant”
I cannot say I have ever seen any pictures of her pregnant whether real or fake?
The decision is already made. What exactly are they going to double down on?
They should be protesting at their state reps homes.
Is that pic legit??
You can find plenty of pictures of her as a little girl, old yearbook photos, etc. She’s always been Michelle and always been a girl / woman since she was an infant. Doubt her mother decided she was transgender a birth.
You should see the dancing with Ellen video......
The Obama’s are hatemongers of the Farrakhan style, attempting to shroud it with a perverse positivity.
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