Happy Anniversary Pro-Choice Advocates!
It may be the last:
By the age of 45, three out of ten American women will have had an abortion. That means every one of those women has had the protection of the Constitution to defend her right to chose whether to terminate her pregnancy. Now Catholic men whose dogma demand they see the world through Rome-colored glasses can dictate to a country of religious plurality the majority of which are women? What is worse, the warping of constitutional interpretation or that it is just part of an over-all attack on a variety of issues such as a thirty year-old law the majority of the country's citizens support?
You would think that given the millions of dollars invested and endless emotion-laden advertising efforts pro-life activists have launched, far more Americans would support their extremist anti-abortion position, but that has not happened. So why do courts and legislatures persist in maneuvering case after case, challenge after challenge, into position for an obvious hoped-for crush of a simple, safe medical procedure that not one American woman is forced to undergo?
There can only be one answer: religious politics.
If Alito is confirmed, a majority of the bench judges will be conservative male Catholics whose commitment to their brand of religious doctrinal interpretation clearly overshadows their commitment to the law of a secular land populated by people of multiple doctrinal beliefs.
It will be the poor who will bear the unfair brunt of laws the privileged will circumvent merely by the application of some well-placed dollars--exactly as was done in the bad old days.
Women this time will have to take sides and make hard choices. Women of independent means and mind will simply have to ensure that by whatever methods available women seeking reproductive freedom will find it.
A ban on abortion will be the next "prohibition" and like the last one, underground resistance as well as black market forces will drive its course. We will have to enable one while fighting the other until more sane minds step in to settle the matter--again--on the side of medical science rather than relgious zealotry.
Who'd have thought that at the turn of the millenium one of the world's most illuminated democracies would be plumetting back into its own dark ages?
"Among the states getting F’s in NARAL’s report are Indiana and Ohio, where conservative lawmakers are introducing bills to ban abortion outright. They hope their measures become law and then face legal challenges that lead to a Supreme Court reconsideration of the 1973 Roe ruling that established abortion rights nationwide."What can those of us do, who understand that the battle to over-turn choice is a war against womens' freedom? Will those who've had abortions be considered criminals?
By the age of 45, three out of ten American women will have had an abortion. That means every one of those women has had the protection of the Constitution to defend her right to chose whether to terminate her pregnancy. Now Catholic men whose dogma demand they see the world through Rome-colored glasses can dictate to a country of religious plurality the majority of which are women? What is worse, the warping of constitutional interpretation or that it is just part of an over-all attack on a variety of issues such as a thirty year-old law the majority of the country's citizens support?
You would think that given the millions of dollars invested and endless emotion-laden advertising efforts pro-life activists have launched, far more Americans would support their extremist anti-abortion position, but that has not happened. So why do courts and legislatures persist in maneuvering case after case, challenge after challenge, into position for an obvious hoped-for crush of a simple, safe medical procedure that not one American woman is forced to undergo?
There can only be one answer: religious politics.
If Alito is confirmed, a majority of the bench judges will be conservative male Catholics whose commitment to their brand of religious doctrinal interpretation clearly overshadows their commitment to the law of a secular land populated by people of multiple doctrinal beliefs.
It will be the poor who will bear the unfair brunt of laws the privileged will circumvent merely by the application of some well-placed dollars--exactly as was done in the bad old days.
Women this time will have to take sides and make hard choices. Women of independent means and mind will simply have to ensure that by whatever methods available women seeking reproductive freedom will find it.
A ban on abortion will be the next "prohibition" and like the last one, underground resistance as well as black market forces will drive its course. We will have to enable one while fighting the other until more sane minds step in to settle the matter--again--on the side of medical science rather than relgious zealotry.
Who'd have thought that at the turn of the millenium one of the world's most illuminated democracies would be plumetting back into its own dark ages?
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