Updating the Abortion Issue

 I wrote Abortion: All Hell Breaks Loose about the leak of the Alito draft opinion trashing Roe v. Wade.  Now some follow up.

Roe v Wade v Sanity 

Charlie Stross wrote:

Wider point: if Alito's leaked ruling represents current USSC opinion, then it appears that the USSC is intent on turning back the clock all the way to the 19th century.

Another point: it is unwise to underestimate the degree to which extreme white supremacism in the USA is enmeshed with a panic about "white" people being "out-bred" by other races: this also meshes in with extreme authoritarian patriarchal values, the weird folk religion that names itself "Christianity" and takes pride in its guns and hatred of others, homophobia, transphobia, an unhealthy obsession with eugenics (and a low-key desire to eliminate the disabled which plays into COVID19 denialism, anti-vaxx, and anti-mask sentiment), misogyny, incel culture, QAnon, classic anti-semitic Blood Libel, and Christian Dominionism (which latter holds that the USA is a Christian nation—and by Christian they mean that aforementioned weird folk religion derived from protestantism I mentioned earlier—and their religious beliefs must be enshrined in law).

Why Roe v. Wade Was Just the Beginning of a Long Fight 

Lauren Rankin provides a history of abortion rights after Roe. I have never understood the willingness of the pro-lifers to kill people. Rankin writes what I think needs to be considered by the pro-choicers:

How do we get out of this?

There’s no magic potion or silver bullet that will save abortion rights. There never really was. Roe v. Wade was a significant step, but while many abortion rights supporters assumed it was the end, it was really just the beginning of a much longer fight. There isn’t a simple law that Congress can pass that will make it all go away. The crisis in abortion access is multilayered, integrated with racism, poverty, and deep, abiding misogyny. We have to do the very taxing and messy work of really looking at how we’ve ended up here, and what we can do differently now.

‘Enforced childbirth is slavery’: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion

The title says ever douch.

CNN poll: The Supreme Court's draft opinion on Roe v. Wade hasn't shaken the midterm landscape 

I think it too early to know for sure but maybe this is good news:

But comparing the results of the new poll to one conducted immediately before the revelation of the draft opinion, the impact on the political landscape heading into the 2022 midterms appears fairly muted.

If the Democrats want to win in November, they can afford no complacency. They need to work for their votes rather than rely on moral outrage.

sch 5/7/22