Lake Superior Twitter Account Slams Abortion Ban, Talks Back at Pro-Lifers – Newsweek

A Twitter account claiming to represent Lake Superior, the largest of America’s Great Lakes, has garnered attention on social media over a string of tweets opposing the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.Last week’s ruling overturning the nearly 50-year-old decision protecting pregnant women’s right to choose to have an abortion drew contrasting reactions.While pro-life Conservatives welcomed the end of national abortion rights, with the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights research organization, estimating that 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortions, activists opposed to the change have taken to the streets in cities across the U.S.The response has been similarly vociferous on social media, with celebrities like Selena Gomez and Bette Midler making headlines after voicing their opposition to the plans on Twitter, while a previous story centering on Brigitte Bardot’s experience of having an abortion blew up on TikTok.Yet arguably one of the strongest responses among those opposing the change has come from what appears to be a parody Twitter account created to pay tribute to Lake Superior.Tweeting out to 126,000 followers, the account @LakeSuperior does not appear to have any official affiliation with the freshwater lake of the same name.Up until recently, the account largely…
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