About one third of the states are going to effectively ban abortions or already have.
About one third are going to keep abortion legal no matter what.
About one third of the states could go either way.
Why are pro choice advocates so afraid to battle the issue out on a state by state basis?
I'm not afraid to battle the issue out on a state by state basis.
I believe that the Constitution of the United States supports an individual woman's right to choose to end or continue a pregnancy, and that this is, therefore, a basic Constitutional right of every woman.
Since Thomas, Alito, Barrett, and Kavanaugh are conservative Catholics and Gorsuch was raised as a Catholic and converted to Anglicanism in his late twenties to marry his wife, I believe that their decision in Dobbs v Jackson is nothing but a conservative Catholic biased interpretation of the Constitution.
That interpretation ignores the religious variety in views of life and personhood in this country that elevated the principle of freedom of religion. The Jews on the Supreme Court have never sided with the conservative Catholic view, and the interpretation of the Constitution should be capable of accommodating the major world religions, at least in their more modern form, e.g., Conservative and Reform Judaism, Mahayana Buddhism, etc.
To me, it is an almost cosmic disappointment that we now have these conservative Catholic justices in the SC, and I consider it a time for political non-violent war to take back this nation from these horribly misguided people.
In every one of the 50 states, there are both pro-choice and anti-abortion populations. The last time I checked the Pew research on this, Mississippi had the lowest portion of pro-choice supporters, 42-45%, and some New England state had the highest, 67%.
While the West Coast, New England, and central mid-Atlantic states as well as Colorado had strong pro-choice portions, except for a very small number of Southern states, almost all the other states split close to 50/50 or slightly higher for pro-choice. In addition, anywhere from 58% to 68-70% of the US population did not want Roe v Wade overturned. More were young, since 18-24 year olds have the highest pro-choice rate and those over 65 have the lowest, i.e., the future is necessarily pro-choice except in the event of destruction of democracy.
In every state, there are women who support Roe v Wade and believe, as I do, that the choice to end or continue a pregnancy is a basic Constitutional right that absolutely belongs to them. Part of loving the US is loving it for recognizing that right of women. If it had not been recognized in my youth, after going abroad, I would not have come back and would have seriously considered taking a different citizenship.
So if I have to slog it out state by state, I will, but that right on a state by state basis would not be the same even if every state recognized it. A basic Constitutional right is a basic commitment of one's nation. When the SC cut that commitment, it worked two ways. My nation has so disappointed me that a certain joy is gone and probably won't return even if a less conservative SC majority later restores recognition of the right for all women in the US.
The narrow-minded anti-abortion people were never impinged on by Roe v Wade, which never touched their bodies, never forced them to be or do anything they didn't want, but they are using force now to try to control the behavior of millions of actual persons against their will. That they do not grasp the horror of this is, perhaps, the saddest thing of all.
Don't bother, we'd fit through the inevitable gaps.
