My great-grandmother died from an illegal abortion. Her story could be one you know soon.
The Supreme Court listened to arguments on Monday about SB-8, the Texas bill that all but bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. That's before most women know they're pregnant.
The Texas law is in direct conflict with Supreme Court rulings such as Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which established and reaffirmed that a woman's right to decide what happens to her body during a pregnancy stems from the constitutionally protected right to privacy.
To be clear: The right to an abortion is not directly on the table yet in either of the two cases the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on. Instead, they center on whether abortion providers or the Justice Department can challenge a law that allows private citizen vigilantes to use civil remedies to sue abortion providers.
But as we saw last month, when the court declined to protect women from what Justice Sonia Sotomayor called "grave and irreparable harm," neither precedent nor women's bodily autonomy matter to this court. Roe is unlikely to survive continued attacks.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/11/01/supreme-court-texas-abortion-endanger-women/6235379001/
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Abortion will never go away. It will only go underground.
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