Well, after nearly half a century, it actually happened: the landmark Roe v. Wade decision has officially fallen. Today the US Supreme Court struck it down completely. Forced-birther Republicans are thus now emboldened to further ban or restrict abortion at the state level, as several states have already done recently. That is, women's hard-won reproductive rights are now in grave danger, and this goes WAY beyond abortion. Undoubtedly, birth control and things like that will be next on the chopping block, and so on, and thus we are just a few steps away from Margaret Atwood's worst nightmare. In fact, Clarence Thomas himself implied as much, actually saying the quiet part out loud.
Add to this the fact that the recent lockdown-induced "recession" (more like depression) has actually hit women harder than men and set back women's progress by decades by dumping even more unpaid work on them at home, and the future looks even worse still.
Democrats in Congress are still looking to pass a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, superseding the abortion bans in any state that attempts such bans. But alas, success in that regard is far from guaranteed.
We at the TSAP are pro-choice, and hereby condemn this travesty in the strongest possible terms.
I am pro-choice. The Supreme Court did not struck down the right of abortion on a conceptual level because the 10th amendment gives states the rights to manage their own affairs, including abortion. It's up to state governments and people in those states to determine the rights of abortion access and procedures.
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