What's your honest reaction to the SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and declaring that abortion should be left up to the states to set policy for?
@dave Absolutely fucking devastated. 😭
Women and girls will die.
Our right to live comes second to the right of a dying fetus inside of us that still has a "heartbeat". We will be forced to carry a rotting dead body inside of us until we can prove that it is not viable.
Our right to medical care that puts a fetus at risk will be truncated. We already have to endure unnecessary pregnancy tests before we can have an X-ray or CT. Women who refuse unnecessary medical intervention are already charged with child endangerment or murder for refusing a cesarean or for taking drugs (even prescription drugs) while pregnant.
Girls raped by their male relatives will be forced to bear a high risk pregnancy before their bodies are ready.
Those who need medical care will lose their savings, be forced to travel great distances, lose their jobs, have to take their children out of school because they can't afford childcare, just to access a safe simple procedure.
I left Texas for a number of reasons, but chiefly among them was that if I became pregnant without realizing it I knew my body was no longer legally my property but that of a clump of cells. Even here in Colorado, I was forced to endure an medically unnecessary and invasive ultrasound, just to pay half my rent for two pills (and no pain medication). And I'm one of the lucky ones.
The thing they refuse to acknowledge is that children will die.
Mothers (including for wanted and planned pregnancies) will not have access to prenatal care either because it is harder to access or because they risk prison if something goes wrong.
Children will be born to parents that never wanted them and we're not ready to be parents. This I believe is the main goal here: to produce children meant to be taken away to meet the high demand for infants for adoption.
The goal is to kill women, body mind and soul. This is genocide.
Women and girls will die.
Our right to live comes second to the right of a dying fetus inside of us that still has a "heartbeat". We will be forced to carry a rotting dead body inside of us until we can prove that it is not viable.
Our right to medical care that puts a fetus at risk will be truncated. We already have to endure unnecessary pregnancy tests before we can have an X-ray or CT. Women who refuse unnecessary medical intervention are already charged with child endangerment or murder for refusing a cesarean or for taking drugs (even prescription drugs) while pregnant.
Girls raped by their male relatives will be forced to bear a high risk pregnancy before their bodies are ready.
Those who need medical care will lose their savings, be forced to travel great distances, lose their jobs, have to take their children out of school because they can't afford childcare, just to access a safe simple procedure.
I left Texas for a number of reasons, but chiefly among them was that if I became pregnant without realizing it I knew my body was no longer legally my property but that of a clump of cells. Even here in Colorado, I was forced to endure an medically unnecessary and invasive ultrasound, just to pay half my rent for two pills (and no pain medication). And I'm one of the lucky ones.
The thing they refuse to acknowledge is that children will die.
Mothers (including for wanted and planned pregnancies) will not have access to prenatal care either because it is harder to access or because they risk prison if something goes wrong.
Children will be born to parents that never wanted them and we're not ready to be parents. This I believe is the main goal here: to produce children meant to be taken away to meet the high demand for infants for adoption.
The goal is to kill women, body mind and soul. This is genocide.
@greenpunk @dave deranged take. completely imaginary. all this does is leave it up to the states because the federal government has no legal authority
She's not wrong that this is going to cause a lot of hardship for young women and teen girls in states without abortion access. Also if you hang out on fedi enough you remember there is still a segment of the population that sees casual sex as sinful, so I think there are at least *some* happy to see these women get punished for it.
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Yes, casual sex is degenerate, but in order for abortion to be needed, you need both casual sex AND the sex must be unprotected.
So, where you see more cases of unwanted pregnancies because of this ruling, I see 20 times LESS unwanted pregnancies. Just in this case, she cannot kill the baby to get rid of it.
