Pay attention. The draft #RoevWade opinion will un-do decades of progress for human rights, for women, for LBGTQIA folks, for anyone who wants to love who they love. #GoodbyeLoving 1/
All the dignity and autonomy Justice Kennedy wrote so eloquently about in Lawrence v. Texas (the first opinion to recognize a right to have sex just to express love and intimacy — or have fun — and not just to make babies!) will be gone with Alito’s words 2/
Alito blames #RoevWade for ‘causing controversy.’ Bullshit. Abortion has been a political tool by the right since Roe. Pat Buchanan’s Southern Strategy to get working class Catholics to leave the Democratic Party 3/
Coupled with Phyllis Schlafly’s strategy to motivate evangelicals. Using abortion as a political tool with no concern about the havoc they wrecked on the lives of women and girls. Because Power. 4/
The receipts are here: law.yale.edu/sites/default/… 5/
The abortion ‘controversy’ persists because it picks on the politically weakest among us: young, poor women and girls. By the time women get enough money and power in life, the danger of the harm an unwanted pregnancy can bring has passed. Perfect! 5/
It also persists because you don’t think the lack of an effective choice will affect you until it affects you, particularly when you wanted the pregnancy but things go horribly awry. 6/
Never mind that the rights enumerated in the Constitution shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. #9A or that the power of the government should never be used to imposed one groups religious rules on others #1A 7/
Raise hell. Shout. Explain what’s at stake. All of our dignity, autonomy, and liberty. End/
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