Overturning Roe v. Wade was extreme, but also alarming was the logic Justice Alito used to justify it.
Same-sex marriage, access to contraception, and privacy are on the chopping block now, too.
This court will stop at nothing to turn back the clock to the nineteenth century.
@rbreich although committing pregnancy to a potential death sentence is actually worse already than those other things.
We can’t fall for openly devaluing the lives of pregnant people by saying things like this.
Gay marriage, and I am gay, is lower on my list. They started at the top.
If hearing about people bleeding out due to a miscarriage makes you think “and they won’t stop there” then you’re contributing to the problem.
@rbreich Let’s be mad enough about the GOP giving the government ownership of uteruses. We don’t need further slippery slope anecdotes.
No one on earth, including a divided egg, owns the uterus except the person born with it. Not a priest, not a president, not a husband, not a single other person. Under that paradigm no one else can compel a pregnant person to let someone else live inside them.
Yes, someone will die. We don’t have to shy away from that reality. We have to state -
@rbreich - clearly that it doesn’t matter. The decision rests solely with the pregnant person. A zygote won’t care either way, certainly GOP elected officials can get over it.
It’s a medical procedure in all 50 states. Zero states call it murder.
The GOP has decided that this particular medical procedure is somehow evil because they have the level of understanding about science and the world that existed in about 1500. It’s not evil.
Abortion doesn’t need restrictions or bans.
Robert Reich
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