Why were Democrats caught flat-footed by the end of Roe v Wade? | Jill Filipovic

Democrats can't fix the past. But the least they can do is learn from it - and change course accordingly

With Roe v Wade overturned by the US supreme court and American women now living in a nation where our most fundamental rights are dependent on the state in which we reside, a lot of us are looking around and asking, how did we get here?"

There is much blame to go around, and the bulk of it rests on the shoulders of the right-wing anti-abortion movement that sprung out of the white supremacist movement that fought to maintain Jim Crow and school segregation. The racist, misogynist Religious Right gained tremendous power within the Republican party; the Republican party proved itself willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get their way; and as a result, Americans are now living in an undemocratic nation of reactionary minority rule.

Jill Filipovic is the author of the The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness