A world without Roe is, for women, a world of social standing cut in half

[Nevilledog]

https://www.editorialboard.com/a-world-without-roe-is-for-women-a-world-of-social-standing-cut-in-half/


There’s a way of looking at reproductive rights that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. With these rights, women have control over their bodies, yes, but they have something bigger – standing in our society.

Access to abortion is more than “freedom to choose.” It means parity, in theory, with men. It means having the political equality of a full and free citizen. It’s the Declaration of Independence made manifest.

The status of women (and anyone who might get pregnant) depends on the right to privacy. Take that away and you take standing away. In hearing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court appears ready to rescind privacy so that governments can regulate anything done privately.

With that, the status of women will be degraded. In some cases, it will be gone in all but name. And with that, the court will begin an era closer to the age of disenfranchisement, before universal suffrage. As Lisa Needham told me, “women will be second-class citizens.”

*snip*

[niyad]

1. Thank you so much for sharing this extremely important, and mostly

overlooked, point. I think about that, and that there are actually people on the reich actually talking about ending the 19th. Forget second-class. The goal of some is to reduce us to chattel.

The whole article is a very good, very depressing, read.

[Nevilledog]

2. YW

[littlemissmartypants]

5. ❤ This times a zillion.

[onecaliberal]

3. Yup, the real prize is to take away our right to vote.

[Deuxcents]

4. Hmmmm..

Women are much more than giving childbirth. This is not over. We’ve been here before. It’s not a good position, obviously, but I believe there will be an underground of support and there are still states who provide abortive services. No.. I’m gonna disagree n say we will never go back.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Thank you, Nevilledog. ❤

[Nevilledog]

8. YW

[Delmette2.0]

7. This is my list of what will happen to women.

Limited education
Limited career choices
Limited lifetime earns
Less retirement benefits
Stuck in unhappy or dangerous relationships
Less respect overall in society (work place, housing, medical community, churches)