To the women I know online and offline:

Important gains of the last 40+ years are now under attack.  In all probability, they will be eroded over the next 20+ years.  This is largely due to the instillation of a right-wing majority on the Supreme Court and the better state-level legislative organization of the religious right.  Abortion and contraceptive freedom will no longer be a given.  While I do not think this will go so far as to affect individual property rights, I will put nothing past these people.  

Assuming this to be true, it is time to seriously consider underground organization for these dark times ahead.  I have no idea how this should or could be done.  But the time to begin planning is before the storm hits, not after.  
The days when women may have to cross state lines to obtain an abortion are more than possible.  This will require funding, transportation and safe places to stay while in transit.  For contraception, I would strongly suggest day after pill stockpiles in case of rape or incest along with a way to effectively and quietly communicate the whereabouts of such medicine.  Pharmacists in several states are already denying this medication to customers on moral grounds.  It is only a matter of time before this becomes more widespread and state sanctioned.  

This may seem extreme.  I think not.  Bush has publicly demonstrated he is the pawn of the extreme rightwing.  They are the only constituency who still support him.  Politically, he must maintain their approval or fall even lower in the public’s perception. These people will stop at nothing to legislate their morality on the rest of us.  And regrettably, the social advances women have made over the last few decades are the obvious, immediate targets.  

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