Bush Wants to "Liberate" Your Uterus
When my mother was pregnant with me, she would have had to go to Mexico if she needed an abortion.
I myself don't remember life in America before Roe v. Wade.
Now I'm terrified that my daughter could come of age in a nightmare-flashback--stripped of the reproductive freedom I've taken for granted all my life.
When asked about Supreme Court appointments and Roe v. Wade in the second and third debates, Resident Bush spoke directly to his radical right, pro-life supporters. In coded and not-so-coded language, he promised to promote their anti-choice agenda and "a culture of life."
By "a culture of life," W. doesn't mean he'll stop sending his thugs out to recruit our kids to fight and die in this atrocious war; he doesn’t mean he'll stop dropping bombs that terrorize and kill civilians and soldiers alike; and he certainly doesn't mean he'll end the death penalty.
What W. means is that his government considers your uterus to be their business.
In the Oct. 8 debate, W. made a seemingly random reference to Dred Scott—the 1857 Supreme Court decision that blacks were "non-persons."
At the time, I figured it was the only case that popped into W.'s puny little head. Turns out that, to the Christian Right, "Dred Scott" is code for Roe v. Wade. Comparing pro-choice women to slaveholders is standard anti-abortion rhetoric. Yep, the same folks who came to occupy the White House largely by disenfranchising black voters will turn common sense on its head to justify government occupation of our wombs. Or maybe they'll call it "liberation." Even while claiming that he'd apply "no litmus test" to judges, W. signaled abortion opponents that any Supreme Court appointee would indeed have to pass an anti-Roe v. Wade litmus test.
Of course, it was the Supreme Court that gave W. the election in the first place. Over the last four years, decisions made by the court have systematically eroded our civil rights, environmental protections and reproductive freedom. It's not like the Supreme Court is some liberal institution. But if W. takes the White House again, it can only get worse:
Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 71.
Sandra Day O’Connor is 74.
John Paul Stevens is 84.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist is 80.
The first three have been essential in upholding Roe v. Wade.
Someone is going to retire.
And we will be up shit creek.
Fuck that.
W. wants to talk about slavery? Really? How about reparations, then?
I myself don't remember life in America before Roe v. Wade.
Now I'm terrified that my daughter could come of age in a nightmare-flashback--stripped of the reproductive freedom I've taken for granted all my life.
When asked about Supreme Court appointments and Roe v. Wade in the second and third debates, Resident Bush spoke directly to his radical right, pro-life supporters. In coded and not-so-coded language, he promised to promote their anti-choice agenda and "a culture of life."
By "a culture of life," W. doesn't mean he'll stop sending his thugs out to recruit our kids to fight and die in this atrocious war; he doesn’t mean he'll stop dropping bombs that terrorize and kill civilians and soldiers alike; and he certainly doesn't mean he'll end the death penalty.
What W. means is that his government considers your uterus to be their business.
In the Oct. 8 debate, W. made a seemingly random reference to Dred Scott—the 1857 Supreme Court decision that blacks were "non-persons."
At the time, I figured it was the only case that popped into W.'s puny little head. Turns out that, to the Christian Right, "Dred Scott" is code for Roe v. Wade. Comparing pro-choice women to slaveholders is standard anti-abortion rhetoric. Yep, the same folks who came to occupy the White House largely by disenfranchising black voters will turn common sense on its head to justify government occupation of our wombs. Or maybe they'll call it "liberation." Even while claiming that he'd apply "no litmus test" to judges, W. signaled abortion opponents that any Supreme Court appointee would indeed have to pass an anti-Roe v. Wade litmus test.
Of course, it was the Supreme Court that gave W. the election in the first place. Over the last four years, decisions made by the court have systematically eroded our civil rights, environmental protections and reproductive freedom. It's not like the Supreme Court is some liberal institution. But if W. takes the White House again, it can only get worse:
Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 71.
Sandra Day O’Connor is 74.
John Paul Stevens is 84.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist is 80.
The first three have been essential in upholding Roe v. Wade.
Someone is going to retire.
And we will be up shit creek.
Fuck that.
W. wants to talk about slavery? Really? How about reparations, then?
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