They're doing some weird live-posting thing where new paragraphs bury the old ones, so here's the text:
Foreign officials and observers have expressed surprise at the news coming from the US Supreme Court.
A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters that while the issue should be decided by the US, the UK - where abortions are legal until the 24-week mark - "defends the productive rights of women globally".
Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted that "the right of women to decide what happens to our bodies is a human right".
In Spain - where abortions are broadly legal until 14 weeks of pregnancy - a senior government official said that the overturning of Roe v Wade would be "an alarming step back with terrible consequence for American women".
"We need to continue protecting sexual and reproductive rights, in the US and in all the world," said Yolanda Diaz, the country's second deputy prime minister.
In Canada, commentator and political consultant Warren Kinsella wrote in the Toronto Sun that the overturn of Roe v Wade would have "big Canadian political consequences".
"Abortion is the ultimate political wedge — one that mobilizes most Canadian women, of all stripes, to vote to maintain control over their bodies," he wrote. Article share tools
It's fascinating to see the US Gov't described in the same language that has been/is currently levied against, say, Saudi Arabia banning women from driving. I get the sense most Americans haven't noticed how much international perception of us has shifted in the last few years.
My hopium is that the French left continues down the path of Melenchon. Keep France as distinct from the US as possible, and France should move on from its colonial past. Sixieme Republique when?
Marine Le Pen? Eric Zemmour? They claim to be patriots but their hatred towards the French tradition of reason and equality will just Americanize us. They are not French, they are Americans!
We are witnessing the end of liberal democracy, the battle over the next few years will be to see what type of autocratic system replaces it. If I had to rank the contenders at this point it would be corporate neo-feudalism, fascism and socialism in that order.
if I have to have feudalism at least give me OG feudalism w/o all the surveillance
Yeah if I'm stuck living under feudalism then the least they could do is let me be a sheep herder or some shit instead of sitting at a desk.
we'd even have some common areas again - would be nice(r than what we have now).
good luck with that, France doesn't even want to acknowledge that colonialism might be bad.