I feel for you if you have a young daughter. She will be part of the first group of American women to have less rights than their mothers and grandmothers. If you are a woman living in a red state, you will have less rights than women in blue states. Unless you were one of the obnoxious guys who refused to stop yelling about the Mets on social media for long enough to notice the final nail in the coffin of women's rights, you probably heard about it. I have never known a world without her. We have never seen the Supreme Court take away a right that has been held to be fundamental by previous courts. It is not just women who will be harmed by this ruling. Trans men and non-binary people deserve the right to have babies. There was a lot of cry about it all over social media last night, as the terror and devastation of what the absence of abortion means for American women sunk in. The people who gleefully insulted women on social media have no idea why it's dangerous for everyone.
A minority government that is far to the right of where most Americans stand on abortion is holding us. According to a survey, nearly 60 percent of Americans support the right to abortion. A one-term president who didn't win the popular vote was able to appoint three Supreme Court justices, all of whom voted with Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the leaked draft. It is a vote to send women back to the days of coat hangers, knitting needles, catheters of bleach, and back alley butchers who charge little and don't ask questions.
There are a lot of candidates running for positions in our democracy that are anti-abortion, though we should call them forced birthers. Herschel Walker, a former running back, is running for a senate seat in Georgia. Walker locked up support from the National Right to Life Committee despite not being able to say much on any issue.
So what? Some of you are saying that. Herschel Walker thinks about abortion. I want to assure you that you love someone who has had an abortion. They might never talk about it, but you do. If a woman's right to bodily autonomy doesn't move you, you might have a sense of humanity with those around you. The polls show Walker neck-and-neck with the incumbent Democrat in his bid for the Senate.
Many Americans don't understand that the abortion issue isn't just about abortion. The Supreme Court decided based on the implied right to privacy that all of us have. The Loving case upheld the right of Americans from different races to marry. The case gave married couples the right to make their own decisions about birth control, without interference from the state. State sodomy laws were struck down in Lawrence v. Texas. The Constitution protects the right to marry a same-sex partner.
Justice Alito had a draft opinion on the subject.
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”
The viability standards that have further clouded the abortion debate were given by the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v.Casey.
If the 14th Amendment guarantees women a right to privacy in determining whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term, all the other cases that rely on that right to privacy are wrongly decided. It won't be the last one.
Think I'm exaggerating? We have already had one lawmaker who believes Loving should have been left to the states. Let's rephrase, in case that wasn't clear. The issue of interracial marriage should be left to the states according to a United States Senator. Braun tried to walk his take back, but I think he gave us a glimpse into the things white men whisper about when no one else is around. In the same hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn said she believed that the right to birth control was wrongly decided.
Is it crazy to say that we could be living in an America where those in red states don't have access to birth control or same sex marriage? Yes, it does. Multiple men assured me for decades that they lived in a world without Roe.
The Washington Post reported this morning that Republicans are expected to push for a national ban on abortion.
If a group of septuagenarian women had the final say on what they could and couldn't do with their bodies, most men would shriek from the rafters. These men have been around for a long time. They constantly police our anatomies, deeming us to need their firm but guiding hand on when we can have children, when we can marry, who we can call herself a woman, and how we prevent having children, who we can marry, who is even allowed to call herself a One of those men is Herschel Walker. This is a sports site and he is a former athlete who is running on a forced birth campaign.
We can't afford more men who want to control women's bodies. We will not survive what comes after.
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