Most Americans forget that Roe was decided as a right to privacy issue, the privacy between a doctor and patient. In their ruling, the majority opinion basically stated that there is no right to privacy and therefore the right to an abortion was not guaranteed. The problem (1/4)
here is that the right to privacy is the basis for so many things Americans approve of and feel are part of their basic freedoms. Laws can’t work if certain basic things like the right to privacy aren’t applied the same way for many issues, therefore they’ve opened up the (2/4)
possibility that a large number of issues considered a right and a basic freedom by the vast majority of Americans can be voided. The law of unintended consequences is rearing it's ugly head and WILL bite us all, much to the detriment of the republic as a whole unless the (3/4)
right to privacy is reestablished in this country. We need Democrats to articulate the fact that extremist republicans only value whatever they care about and they will stomp on all of our rights. #Fascism #VoteBlueDownBallot #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy (4/4)
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