the media does the crappiest job in the world of explaining Roe. The decision is based on the finding of a right to privacy about reproduction matters. It has long been a stated goal of the evangelical creeps to continue to try to negate privacy issues surrounding birth control/family planning once they eviscerate Roe. What is being attacked by these zealots/GQP is not just the specific act of abortion but a right to privacy. Prior to Griswold and Roe the various states were very much peeking in your bedroom window and into your doctor's office.
What has been allowed for way too long is the constant acceptance of the BS framing of the issue. Supposedly if you are against the zealots you are "Pro-Choice". That is actually a weasel phrase that centrists came up with once the push-back against Roe kicked into gear. The zealots labeled people "Pro-Abortion" and that made weak-in-the knees people run to what they thought was an "acceptable/defensible" label and the media has hammered it into boilerplate. What should have been the discussion is whether or not someone is "Pro-Privacy" or "Anti-Privacy". These zealots nor anybody else ever had any right to be digging into a woman's reproductive care/family planning. For the love of God why is it so f'ng hard for people in this country to do critical thinking? Yes that is rhetorical and I sadly do know the answers.
You cannot be "Pro-Choice" about a basic right. It is not a matter of "some can have it if they choose". You have the right of privacy about these things according to the court. Period. Argue it that way. Enough with the weasel phrasing. Once and for all America. Privacy means privacy. It means you don''t get to pry and dig about what women do in these matters. Because.......it's private!!! When somebody says we need information about how many abortions are performed and the details your response to that person should be.........."None of your business!!!!! It's private!!!!!!!". The SC said the government could have limited interest that varied by trimester. But non-government people have no right to poke into these matters. Private means what it says.
It's long past time that we uphold the foundation of Roe which is the individual right to privacy.
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