I notice that you and some other posters don't get it.
Oh I get it. I've been watching radical right wing conservatism, not just this case.
Roe v Wade is not just about abortion. It's about saying out loud and legally that women are persons with the rights of life, liberty, and property a la the 14th Amendment, which asserts, if in another clause, equality. It's about saying we are equal persons with equal dignity.
You are correct. It is not just about abortion. What was the status of women before 1973? What jobs did women have then? Any women CEOs of major corporations? That's the whole point of taking away women's reproductive rights: the radical right wing envisions a world in which women get back in the kitchen and the bedroom, so that "capable" white Christian men can take the jobs and status that women (and minorities, foreigners, and gays) "stole" from them.
In my lifetime, I still remember laws from Mississippi in the mid-1960s, when a married woman couldn't get insurance at the company where she worked if her husband didn't sign the form, like a parent, when he had the right to spend any money she inherited from her family, even if he spent it all on booze for himself.
Here's the thing: I agree with you. I know a lot of women who remember the pre-Roe era feel this on a personal level. This is also personal to me. I never knew my paternal grandmother. My dad's mother died during the height of the Great Depression because she couldn't afford another child and decided to have an abortion in the late spring/early summer of 1934. She died of a perforated uterus. It was a horrible, excruciating way to die, and for children to watch their mother die.
Roe v Wade was the source of respect and dignity, because it was about autonomy as an adult, single or married.
Yep. I get that. Unfortunately, I think there are a lot of people who don't get it. If enough people 'got it', we wouldn't have let it get to this point. The cold, hard reality is that in many states, there's like one abortion clinic that basically doesn't even serve people because there are untold number of restrictions and regulations. In a fair number of states - like Mississippi for example - abortion has been effectively outlawed for several years. Yes, technically, it was still legal, but practically, no. It was already effectively driven into extinction. That's my point. Where the hell were the voters? They're just now waking up? I can't possibly believe that this one ruling is going to make a difference -- to you, yes, because you're old enough to realize what Roe v Wade means.
No, what I think will be the red line is when the states begin to attack birth control - and they will. There will be one red state dumb enough to attack birth control believing it's just an extension of their anti-abortion shit. They don't know that a LOT of women who are themselves anti-abortion take birth control. Hell I've known women who take BC to deal with bad menstrual cramps. And I've known plenty of dudes who've counted on lots of Friday and Saturday night fun assuming the lady next to them is on the pill. Personally? I think Repubs **** with BC at their peril, but they'll give it the college try, I promise.
Conservatives/Republicans ideology is power - never forget that.
Conservatives/Republicans ideology is power - never forget that.
Conservatives/Republicans ideology is power - never forget that.
Conservatives/Republicans ideology is power - never forget that.
Conservatives/Republicans ideology is power - never forget that.
Conservatives/Republicans ideology is power - never forget that.
Remember it. Don't *ever* forget it.
When you vote, if you see an R, you vote against it. Period.