Thread by @gauravsabnis

I don't think people will fully comprehend for a couple of years just how badly America has scuttled itself by overturning #RoeVWade. Future historians will be baffled at how we in the year 2022 decided to criminalize abortion when 20% pregnancies end in abortions.

As divided as America has been in this century, none of its blunders directly hit as huge a percentage of the population as this decision has. Most damage has been limited to Afghans, Iraqis, black folks, Latinos, Asians.

But uteruses exist in every American family.

Y'all should look up and read the history of the activism that led to the legalization of abortion in America in the first place.

And remember that this is a uniquely Christian obsession.

No non Christian cultures obsess over whether a woman decides to have a baby or not.

American women in the 50s & 60s shared the goriest details, the most traumatic horror stories in public to convince the country and the court that forcing women to have babies is not good.

Millions of women put themselves out there to win a right that 6 people took away.

A few years ago, when overturning Roe seemed like dystopian fiction, I read a story about the case of the New York City woman whose botched illegal abortion so horrified the public that it helped convince people that it's really evil to ban abortions.

Lemme see if I can find it.

But first this contemporary horrific account of how a 15 year old girl lost her self-ownership because she was unfortunate enough to live in Texas.

newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

Here's the history behind #RoeVWade

nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…

This is our immediate future in America.

https://twitter.com/GaviBegtrup/status/1543032034326609920?t=jZCgRv_ujN9aUDGg-MpW_w&s=19