Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Welcome To The 1950s, Women And Those Of Us Who Care About Women If Not The 1850s

I WAS TALKING with one of my younger relatives who has put a hold on trying to become pregnant with a child she has long wanted because she will have a high-risk pregnancy like so many Women in America have or would have and she's worried about her ability to end a dangerous pregnancy after the Roberts Republican-fascists nationalized her body. 

I can't help but wonder how many Women are going to avoid pregnancy in hopes that Republican-fascists don't do what so many of them, including the Republican-fascists on the Supreme Court, clearly want to do, ban contraception.

It was decades ago, seeing the political action of right-wing Catholic bishops in returning to the pre-Roe period while opposing the promotion of educating Americans, older and young in using contraception effectively that they were, actually, one of the strongest forces behind America's extremely high abortion rate.

Anyone who favors both illegalizing the abortions that will happen no matter how illegal they make it WHILE CUTTING OF ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTION is clearly in favor of Women dying and having their health permanently damaged, not only when they feel compelled to end a pregnancy by any means BUT ALSO WOMEN WHO WANTED TO CARRY A PREGNANCY TO TERM WHO HAVE A MISCARRIAGE OR HAVE A LIFE THREATENING PREGNANCY.  Even now, the Roberts Court majority have summarily sentenced such Women to death AND THEY ARE DYING and about a month ago refused to intervene to save Women's lives.   Including the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, right-wing "Catholic" organizations even some middle-of-the-road Catholic organizations.   And what can be said of them can be said of many Protestant denominations, as well.  It's true of the Republican-fascist Party from top to bottom.   One of the two parties favors this for all Women and the "girl-dads" that were, late in the now over campaign, invented to assure us that the non-Women-killing party would win the election were a figment of their wishful thinking.   At least their numbers were clearly not a majority of "dads" overall. 

I have every expectation that the Roberts Republican-fascist Court will get to overturning the Griswold decision, now that they know that their party actually won AFTER THEY OVERTURNED ROE.  And that the governors and legislatures of Republican-fascist dominated states will go with that just as they have been killing Women in their states, now.  And I wouldn't expect those state Constitutional changes voted for by even some who opted for Trump will stand after the Republican-fascists put that nationwide abortion ban into effect.   Would you want to bet the life and safety of yourself, your daughter, your neice, your mother on the Roberts-Republican-fascist Court not upholding it and declaring it trumps state Constitutions?   If you do you are living in a fool's paradise, as so many of us are encouraged to by the TV pundit lawyers who assured us that the Courts would save us.

The media which has been burying these stories are complicit, too.  They are guilty of murder and they get away with it because our legal system and political system are what they always have been, corrupt and entirely unwilling to take such realities seriously.  

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