It’s great that In Kansas voters stood up for their rights and defeated a referendum to overturn the abortion rights contained in their state constitution.
But in Indiana the republican governor and republican state legislature just made a law that criminalizes abortion any time after 10 weeks after conception and got rid of abortion clinics in the state.
How can a state that makes laws that violate human rights be compelled to rescind such violations? Especially as long as the Supreme Court condones, encourages, and empowers such laws? The Supreme Court may not think of them as human rights, but we do.
One state preserving access to abortion is good but it doesn’t preserve reproductive rights in other states that want to follow the lead of the Supreme Court and take rights away from women.
This country would be so much better off if personal rights and responsibilities and individual freedom and liberty were not put on the chopping block by fascist zealots in the name of church or any other ideology or doctrine or dogma that is not universal and is used to subjugate people.
This country would actually be closer to having justice if the government no longer trampled on the privacy of individual citizens making their own decisions about their own lives when doing so harms no one, is not illegal, is not a danger or a threat to other people, and it is not the business of the government to intrude in this fundamental right of self-determination by individual citizens, in this case, women making their own reproductive decisions.
How did this country veer so far off course that it now has a Supreme Court, supposedly the highest court in the land, that so blatantly acts on and imposes specific church doctrine and has foregone all sense of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state?
The five conservative members of the Supreme Court when they eviscerated Roe v Wade, condemned American women to a status of subservience to the state when it comes to reproduction. How is that justice? How can the people of the United States allow that decision to stand and to go unchallenged and unopposed?
The Supreme Court opened a can of worms when it rescinded the right to abortion services in Roe v Wade. This action on the part of the Supreme Court emphasizes that the process of securing human reproductive rights remains undone and continues to be a controversial hot button issue.
Is this the end of this issue? Is the Supreme Court’s deletion of a right the end of the line for such a right? Will the country be able to resolve this debate once and for all? What will be the end result? Will American women eventually have the right to make their own reproductive decisions without interference by the government and courts?
It is bizarre that getting an abortion continues to be a controversial political issue and fight in the United States. It is bizarre that politicians and some judges would take rights away and interfere in matters of personal privacy and decision making.
The conservative members of the Supreme Court may believe that they have accomplished a victory in this desision. But have they? Is their ruling going to be the final say on the matter? I don’t think so. But how will this issue play out? There will undoubtedly be many more court battles and actions and the struggle for and against the rights that women do or do not have will continue to rage until the matter is resolved. Will the people eventually have a secure right to make their own health care decisions free of government persecution and vilification? We shall see.
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