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The other side of this coin is having to be 100% self-dependent. If you want to do this, you better have a job that pays for your preferred life-style. And you better live in a country with a functional health-system that doesn't immediately bunkrupt you if you fall ill and lose your job because of that.
This assumes women will still be able to work. A lot of men would prefer to go back to the 1950's where women couldn't do much but stay at home and have kids. I wouldn't be surprised if we see voting rights being removed for certain people (namely women and minorities). At the very least, voting access will be severely limited. The point is to keep them in power while still giving the impression we're a democracy. Kinda like how Russia does it and Putin happens to win every election by a huge amount (and all his opponents end up dead, kinda like what Teump has been threatened).
Hope for the best, expect the worse.
I wish I could say that people would riot before that happen, but these days I think that Americans will just take whatever the government does to them and at most will make some memes on the internet about how fucked up they were.
Back when roe V wade was overturned I still thought "this is gonna be the straw" but nope, nobody did anything at all, not even any minor protest.
America just doesn't have any structure for fighting back. With just two parties and barely any relevant unions for anything, there's nobody willing to organize anything to push back.
I am not really surprised. As long as people are not starving and they have any kind of recreational activities (social media, streaming, alcohol, drugs), they won't do shit. The ancient romans already new about that. They gave the people "bread and circuses".
But other countries do have protests and riots for a lot less. I think the reason it doesn't happen in America is mostly because of the lack of organized unions and stuff like that.
Where I live if some law suggested doctors could be facing jail time for providing care to someone who had a miscarriage, it wouldn't take a week for doctors to go on strike, which would probably be organized by their union. And even anti-choice doctors would strike too.
Two Minutes Hate is much cheaper and more effective.