Correct....Creating a disproportionate public health issue for women around the country. Some of this will be in places that don't have safe access to abortion, and women will also suffer limited access to prenatal care. Some states will create wildy disproportionate laws, outlawing condoms, the day after pill, hell, why not, even birth control. This will cause pretty dramatic consequences in those places: unnecessary death, teenage pregnancy, a host of reproductive and sexual issues, I'd even wager STD's will skyrocket. This will impact the nation as a whole, because a lot of folks get prenatal and pregnancy care via Medicaid, and we spend a TON of public health funding on that stage, because it results in the best outcomes. Ie, we would spend exponentially more as a society on sick infants, children and women due to poor health during pregnancy than we do on preventative prenatal shit. This ruling endangers all of that, with no real basis on sound logic. Some states fuck things up, and we all suffer. Thus the federal government establishing RvWade in the first place. Now, the SC, ratfucked by McConnell, filled with people who swore in confirmation hearings they'd uphold RvW, are overturning it. It's not to be minimized, it's a legitimate threat to women's health everywhere, progress on which has been excruciatingly slow. Look at medical bias against women and you'll see what I mean. Also, in looking at some of the laws in question, they are wildly stupid: a doctor would suffer worse consequences for performing a medical procedure than a fucking rapist. Many of these laws have no, I repeat ZERO consideration for women's health, and make the decision for a woman that whatever state of pregnancy she's in is inherently more valuable than preserving her own life and health. No exceptions or exemptions. Now, if you're a gynecologist in these places, wouldn't you be packing the fuck up? One wrong prescription, one messy procedure, hell, you could go to jail for failing to report someone trying to self-abort....that's worth the risk all of the fucking sudden? Tell me what you feel comfortable with Mississippi leading the nation on. Go ahead. They just made the act of fucking more dangerous. I don't get how you know that and still think it's acceptable.
It’s more about them being able to tell people what to do, and not having to be told what to do. Forget about the constitution and principles of small government or whatever. That’s always been a bullshit platitude. “You can’t have an abortion anymore because I said so.” “You can’t make me wear a mask because it’s my body my choice.” If you looks at everything they stand for through that lens instead of trying to apply their previously stated beliefs on the role of government in your personal life, it makes more sense.
Heinlein said it best: "Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too." Oh I get it. I just can't help but chuckle at the party of Reagan suddenly being super duper ok with the government stepping in and legislating what people can and can't do with their bodies. And based on what they think a 2,000 year old book of ghost stories tells them. What could go wrong?
To play devil’s advocate a little even the sacrosanct, now defunct Roe and Casey, held that at some point during a pregnancy the state has an interest in protecting the life of the child. It was never a carte Blanche ruling that you had total autonomy over your body and pregnancy. At some point, it wasn’t your body, per those two decisions.
Except the their book of mythology says fuck all about abortion being murder. Hell the only time abortion is mentioned is in the old testament, and it's a how to if you think your wife has cheated on you. Fun fact: A lot of denominations used to be pro choice. https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/how-southern-baptists-became-pro-life/
Oh, I have the Ordeal of the Bitter Water nicely lined up when my super Conservative/Religious in laws inevitable bring this up. I'll be interested to see their reaction.
Y'all better be on guard. Our crazy seems to spread to you pretty often. Aren't we just the best neighbors?
From what I can tell the Canadian government is more into a dick measuring contest with California when making laws then it takes influence from America’s right.
I think it's more about the Albertan drunks who roll into Ottawa with confederate flags and then shit in public for a few weeks.
I get that shitty ideologies are contagious, but… Confederate flags? It’s weird enough that Americans still fly them.
I thought Hugh Jackman played Wolverine; not Cyclops? This multiverse shit is getting way too confusing.
So....what do you think the response will be? I have already heard the same refrain from DC folks: the people connected to this are persona non grata in a lot of establishments. Their food will taste like spit, their homes will smell like piss, etc. I'm curious where this goes, and DC is in for a wild weekend.