https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.
The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision — Planned Parenthood v. Casey — that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft.
No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.
It's not "republicans" who have abortions. So, why are democrats so adamant that "democrat birthing people" have the right to kill their child? Politically speaking, that seems rather counter-productive, does it not?
The argument of abortion from a societal standpoint centers around the sexual liberation of women. The question is: should women be held accountable for their sexual promiscuity if an unwanted pregnancy occurs? All "whataboutisms" are fallacies.
The primary non-fallacious arguments abortionists make are:
Bringing an unwanted child into the world is a form of torture to the child, mother and society,
Women should be able to abort pregnancies resulting from rape or incest,
Women should be able to abort for health reasons (mother and/or child),
Women should have the right to kill their child just because,
I think most people probably agree that a fetus that has major health issues which will result in very low quality of life should qualify for an abortion. As well as a pregnancy that is the result of incest or rape. But those instances account for a very, very low percentage of overall abortions.
The "unwanted child" argument - society would be better off without unwanted children - is assumptive at best. It assumes that a woman who doesn't want a child when she is 12 weeks pregnant won't want the child when it is 12 weeks old, either.
Abortion is a systemic loophole for a female's sexual accountability. It gives people the impression that women are sex-starved sluts who can't resist dick, even if it means she will ruin her life by getting pregnant. Think about it: if pregnancy would totally ruin a woman's life, why would she get pregnant? Does she not have the impulse control to resist sexual desires? Is she not smart enough to contemplate cause and effect? Can she not afford birth control?
One would think if pregnancy would destroy a woman's life, she would do everything possible to avoid getting pregnant. I'm of the opinion that abortionists don't think women are capable of handling that kind of responsibility. Similar to the way that liberals assert that if we didn't have laws, black people wouldn't commit crimes.
The "what about men tho" is a silly fallacy, but I'll address it anyway. As long as the woman isn't a complete slut and knows who got her pregnant, then the man is held accountable by law. Furthermore, saying "but what about men, they can fuck whoever they want without consequence" is deflecting and not addressing the issue in good faith. That's to say, men could make the same argument about not being able to get pregnant: "it's not fair that we had a one night stand and you're the one who got pregnant and gets to give birth to my baby."
As with all modern social causes, abortion is a layered dilemma. The actual pregnancy itself is the outside of the onion. Starting the argument from that point is failure to address the causation of pregnancy. It's as if there wasn't any actions or behaviors that lead up to that point that need critiqued. It's just: "Katie was a slut again. Oh well. Let's take her to the abortion clinic and she can be back at the bar this weekend." Everything is the pursuit of happiness within the moment. Like a toddler playing with a fork next to a light socket.
Feminism can't exist without the option for abortion. Because women can't be completely sexually liberated without it. If women are held responsible for their promiscuity, then they can't be feminists, because they'll be home feeding their sex trophies. More so, they know that raising a kid on their own isn't easy, so they will look to bring in a man to help. That dynamic is known as a family. And families are what feminism is designed to destroy.
Conformists think that feminism is this amazing idea that men and women are equal. But the only people who think that are those who haven't read the fine print, so to say. Feminism just creates inferior men, but the actual purpose is to pit women against men. Feminism is pointless in a family-based traditional society. What's the point of sexual liberation (or even "equality") if you're married (i.e., a team)?
If women are held accountable for their sexual escapades (i.e., can't have abortions), they will either not be sexually promiscuous or they'll be mothers. Neither one of those is representative of the feminist ideal.
Finally, a mother killing her child (regardless of how you dress it up, that's what it is) will have a lasting psychological effect on any woman with a conscious. Those who make the "unwanted child is bad for society" argument often fail to make the "women who kill their unwanted children are bad for society" argument. To pretend that having an abortion is like getting a tooth pulled is dumb. If a woman can abort her child and it not have any psychological impact on her, then she is a sociopath. Sociopaths are bad for society. And so are depressed women wrecked with guilt and angst because society gave her the option of killing her child instead of taking responsibility for her actions.
