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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. That's not always true, and anyway for how many is this about class resentments
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 02:57 AM
Sep 2021

and inequality? Would reallly be better if the wealthy also couldn't access illegal abortions?

This is about women's and men's reproductive rights and women's health and equality -- huge basic issues affecting virtually everyone.

Btw, does anyone doubt they'll be coming for the constitutional right to privacy itself, a flimsy construct not actually written in the constitution? Among other things, but including abortion, it currently protects our bodies from government interference, including the right to use or refuse birth control, to choose or reject surgery, and many other potential dystopian horrors. Including the people's right to a free and open internet so government can't refuse us forums like this one and choose what our browser searches will provide.

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