“We won’t go back!” The cry echoed from protesters around the country after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, ending the 50-year constitutional right to abortion.
Yeah: the reasoning behind the anti-abortion argument that every life is precious and is therefore wanted by someone, somewhere, just flies in the face as well of the biology of fertility. It relies on buying into the belief that every fertilized egg, without exception, will result in a viable, full-term pregnancy. No one knows for sure what the percentage is, but estimates are that around 50% of fertilized eggs either pass through the uterus without implanting or are spontaneously aborted, often without the person’s knowing it has happened. And then there are ALL the things that can go awry during pregnancy, either with the fetus or with the person carrying it.
Anti-abortion people don’t merely infringe on the rights of people to make medical decisions on their own, their position is in direct denial of biological fact.
Great article that displays all the ways the christo fascists want to control women.
If nothing else, let’s hope the Supreme Court has turned the country blue.
The question I have is how much of the anti abortion movement is about abortion and how much of it is about controlling women and returning them to second class people. That is the whole premise of the anti abortion movement is that women are like children who cannot be trusted to make decisions about their own bodies.
While a man, as a son, brother, husband, father and grandfather to women, I find this deeply offensive.
This well-written piece describes the brutal fallacy behind the “culture of life” that abortion opponents wield as their cudgel. To be a woman of childbearing years, a person relies on the medical advances that the medical procedure provides. For these women, even women who oppose abortion rights, they now face a culture in which their individual state from governor to legislature view them as potential criminals. The deeper tragedy is that this “culture of life” encourages medical outcomes where the patient’s death is more likely.
All of it. There is never any movement from these ghouls to do anything to make it easier for women (and men) to have and raise children nor do they want to try and prevent unwanted pregnancies and reduce abortions by making them rare. They don’t advocate for better pre-natal care, post-natal care or childcare. It’s all about controlling and punishing women.
Excellent article Katy. Thank you.
This is the only reason the movement began. Small minded Southern men who were afraid of the elevated position of women. Barefoot and pregnant should be our life goals .
What scares me is this is just the start from the six radicals on the corrupted court.
My heart aches for all of the women, men, forced-birth babies, and families who willl suffer physically and emotionally as a result of this decision, especially those who will be forced to carry a baby to term and give birth to a child who has already perished or has no chance of survival and for those cases when the woman’s life will be lost or destroyed. Their pain is almost unberable to even think aboout, let alone experience.
I have a brother with ivy league degrees in philosophy and engineering who has gone from believing that climate change is a hoax, to believing that vaccines are also a conspiracy, to believing that abortions are dangerous to women’s health. One of his kids was by IVF. He moved to Texas to get away from California liberals. This is a brainwashing cult that he’s fallen victim to – and he’s not even a believer in the dubious “god” of the evangelicals. There is a severe mental health crisis in America. In his case, at least he doesn’t own guns or beat his wife, and holds a job okay. But we have far too many people who have somehow been converted into zombies who readily allow their brains to be captured in a web of lies. We need far more than a political solution.
Alito cited medieval law for a reason.
He needed a “pure” (cough) period of time uninfluenced by the trappings of modern science and medicine.
Of course, if you consider anything beyond what spewed from his narrow bandwidth mind, as the minority opinion found, his reasoning is rather mutilated.
Good work and article here at TPM!
Another good article in the Guardian this morning. With a nice photo of a sign held be a woman at a rally which says “Vasectomies prevent abortions.”
There is a section in the article that describes how, in those red states where, largely, white men have gone back to the Draconian laws outlawing abortions, there are so many white men thinking ahead about and getting vasectomies now, while they can; because they are pretty sure that when contraception and tubal litigation is prohibited for women, It will also be the case for vasectomies for men. They are not wrong, IMO.
From the Guardian article:
This increase is also visible in red states. Innerbody’s original Google search data showed that most vasectomy-related queries were coming from Texas, where a 1925-vintage, pre-Roe abortion ban was restored on 1 July.
Attaboy guys!! I mean that sincerely. Especially you guys stepping up to the plate in Texas! We women (and non-binaries) appreciate it! We are all in this together 
The following quip is about same-sex marriage, not abortion, but it’s the same principle at work.
Fake quote in parody of Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI):
“Before I started in Congress, I was a Christian pastor, which is to say I am a fucking idiot and bigot like all Christian pastors, since the Christian religion as an institution has ceased to have even a thread of connection to the actual teachings of Christ and is merely a way for assholes to launder their seething small-minded hatred of others into something that seems respectable, so that’s your answer right there.”
https://www.theonion.com/republicans-explain-why-they-oppose-same-sex-marriage-1849334212/slides/23
My instincts tell me this is not good. Could be disastrous.
Not just criminals… slaves. The state thinks they own every uteri in America and by extension because they’re connected…the rest of a woman’s body. A woman has no choice now over her own body and that is as basic as it gets. In addition it could be a crime for a pregnant woman to travel across a state line not matter the reason and a doctor cannot say the word “abortion” without potentially losing his/her practice. That’s freedom to travel and the ability to speak one’s mind. Our Constitutionally mandated freedoms are going away except one can have just about any goddamned gun they want.
I am not in a good mood today.
That is a very bad idea at the moment.
While I have always liked the idea of expanding the number of viable US national political parties, I don’t think now is the time.
I have little confidence that this “Forward” party is the one that will take. I had to laugh when I saw the Yang video where he says: Elon Musk is a good fit for the new Forward Party
