So we're not going to regulate carbon emissions either. Clarence Thomas' wife said so.

I already told you, however, that you weren't going to do anything about climate change while leaving everything else the same. (The password is AddletonAP2009 to open the PDF document.) And don't worry about changing anything when you vote for the Democrats -- the anti-abortionists will simply rebrand, and Nancy Pelosi will support them.

I suppose your best recourse at this point is a sort of lifestyle politics. So, as the world gets ever-hotter, figure out who your friends are. If their pitch is "donate $15 to our campaign so we can do nothing to save your loved ones," they're probably not your friends. And don't sweat the abortion thing: it's only the surveillance state:

We have entered an era not of unsafe abortion but of widespread state surveillance and criminalization—of pregnant women, certainly, but also of doctors and pharmacists and clinic staffers and volunteers and friends and family members, of anyone who comes into meaningful contact with a pregnancy that does not end in a healthy birth. Those who argue that this decision won’t actually change things much—an instinct you’ll find on both sides of the political divide—are blind to the ways in which state-level anti-abortion crusades have already turned pregnancy into punishment, and the ways in which the situation is poised to become much worse.

Remember when you took American history and the teacher discussed the antebellum South? Well, I don't know what they told you, but the antebellum South was a police state. It had to be -- the entire population had to be mobilized to keep nearly four million people in a state of slavery. Okay, now imagine what it would be like if they'd been able to keep slavery around to the present day, given that the present day has drone warfare and satellites that can spot your baseball cap from orbit.

Now, granted, the motives today will be different -- the whole of society will be called in to enforce the personhood of fetuses rather than the thinghood of people. But the same issues are involved: personhood and autonomy. Once again from the New Yorker:

Anyone who can get pregnant must now face the reality that half of the country is in the hands of legislators who believe that your personhood and autonomy are conditional—who believe that, if you are impregnated by another person, under any circumstance, you have a legal and moral duty to undergo pregnancy, delivery, and, in all likelihood, two decades or more of caregiving, no matter the permanent and potentially devastating consequences for your body, your heart, your mind, your family, your ability to put food on the table, your plans, your aspirations, your life.

This is what the enormous apparatus of surveillance and control will be motivated to enforce. And think carefully about who qualifies as "anyone who comes into meaningful contact with a pregnancy that does not end in a healthy birth."