For Many Women, Roe Was About More Than Abortion. It Was About Freedom.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/us/women-abortion-roe-wade.html
https://archive.ph/C3JQU

For Many Women, Roe Was About More Than Abortion. It Was About Freedom.
After the reversal of Roe v. Wade, some women are reconsidering their plans, including where they live, and wondering how best to channel their anger.
By Julie Bosman
June 29, 2022, 3:00 a.m. ET

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For women who had sought abortions in states where clinics were forced to shutter, the ruling was an immediate catastrophe, jeopardizing their decision to terminate their pregnancies.

Yet the decision reached far beyond them — across generations and geography, across race and class. Many women were sent spinning, questioning their place in society, at least in the eyes of the Supreme Court.

In dozens of interviews this week, American women who support abortion rights recalled the moment when they heard that Roe had been overturned, and the waves of shock and fury that followed. They reflected on how access to legal abortion had quietly undergirded their personal decisions, even if they had never sought one themselves. They worried that the progress many women have made since abortion was legalized — in education, the workplace and in the culture — would be halted.

And they reconsidered their own plans and those of their children: whether they should live, work or attend colleges in states where abortion has been banned, how they could help other women with unwanted pregnancies, and whether they would ever recover the constitutional right to receive a safe abortion, a guarantee that tens of millions of women have known their entire lives.

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[secondwind]

1. Exactly!!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[XanaDUer2]

3. One stroke of a pen can limit rights

We must always be vigilant

[Irish_Dem]

4. Women will lose out on college, pay, jobs.

Young women today probably don't quite realize what being pregnant all the time means for them and their future.

Some of us older women saw it first hand.

[onecaliberal]

5. 👆🏻👆🏻 They're going to have to learn the hard way if they don't join us in the fight of our lives.

[Irish_Dem]

6. They have no idea what it was like before birth control and reproductive choice.

I have actually heard people say that the SC ruling will be good for tourist dollars!
And will be a plus as women travel to get abortions.

Not taking into account that teens and poor women cannot travel due to lack of funds or support.
Or that even women who can travel may have legal consequences.

Many of us older women saw first hand what life was like for our grandmothers and mothers.

[onecaliberal]

8. And that's not even talking about what happens in a bad miscarriage? Or ectopic pregnancy

Or a septic mom. This isn’t good. Will hit people of color the hardest.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Right all the early deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth.

It is going to be very hard to watch history repeat itself.

[onecaliberal]

11. Yeah.

[CousinIT]

12. Roe being overturned WILL affect the economy. BADLY.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/how-supreme-court-s-abortion-ruling-will-hurt-economy-n1296341?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

[Irish_Dem]

14. Poverty levels will go up as well. Day care is so expensive.

Women with a lot of children will have to stay home with the kids.
Unless the men decide to stay home.

One income households means lower standard of living.

[2naSalit]

7. Damn straight it is!

[Wounded Bear]

10. K & R...nt

[BlueSky3]

13. I wonder if this will lead

to mass migration out of red states. The comments in the article were interesting. One person wrote that they live in a red state and won’t be leaving because they need to be there to vote Democratic.