Like Colonel Taylor once said: “You maniacs! You blew it all up…!“
The worst part about all this is, the reasoning they used to overturn Roe can easily be used to remove all other rights…
By claiming that the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment can be limited because such concepts as abortion were not on anyone’s mind when the Amendment was drafted, it’s opened the doors for other cases to be reconsidered.
In fact, Thomas’ concurrence cites three such cases that relied on the Fourteenth that the court “should reconsider” in light of this ruling: Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 decision that declared married couples had a right to contraception; Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 case invalidating sodomy laws and making same-sex sexual activity legal across the country; and Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case establishing the right of gay couples to marry.
Think about it: The logic used here to deny abortions can now be used to overturn gay marriage, same-sex relationships, and contraception. And considering what ELSE we didn’t have in 1868, when the Fourteenth was adopted, such as suffrage for anyone other than a male white property owner, this is a slope that’s not so much slippery as it is embedded with razor blades and shards of glass that has been greased , meaning that it’s a race between the hard fall and the loss of blood as to what kills you first.
It’s beyond time to trust the courts to uphold any self-evident truths that we think we have. We need a legislative solution, with statutes that explicitly grant us rights we just assumed we had. Leaving these areas settled based on implication was never good enough, and after today, we do need to literally spell it out.
It’s not enough to just vote the enablers out; we need to make sure the folks we send do what we want, explicitly demanding what we need. The threat of voting them out should this not happen needs to be not only on the table, but made the centerpiece thereof.
Don’t just vote like your life depends on it; make sure the ones you vote in know that giving them job isn’t enough anymore.
And while we’re looking for candidates we need to speak for us…
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It’s going to get ugly before it gets better…
James Ryan 