The whole opinion is a boring and boorish reflection of its author(s), so I didn't read the whole thing. But I don't think that matters because if the Supreme Court can't do its research properly, I certainly don't have to.
Instead, I'll just focus on the crux of their argument on paper for this post: We've been jerking it to same jerks for 235 years, so why stop jerking off now?
So, who are these jerks?
Like the Bible, it's true that abortion isn't enumerated in the Constitution; because, again like the Bible, the Framers of the Constitution were all dominant-race men with a self-serving agenda that did not include a single member of any minority population.
This sounds incredibly fun for them, and I'm sure the Constitutional Convention was OFF THE CHAIIIIIIIN, but as committed as I am to preserving the rights of White men to have a great time at the expense of others' basic human dignity and needs, I am going to be a real bitch and imagine what it would have been like if they had considered women at all in that frat house called Liberty Hall.
But before we begin...
Like throughout all of history, abortions were a common part of health care practiced among women in the United States at the time the Constitution was written. If you've ever walked through an old cemetery in New England, you surely noticed with great alarm the number of young women who've been pushing up daisies for centuries due to complications in pregnancy, termination and childbirth.
And those were the rich ones who could afford a rock and someone who could chisel and read and write.
Women were (as they are now) often terrified to learn they were pregnant at a time when many men were completely oblivious to their wives, mistresses and rape victims' pregnancies until about 10 years after they'd given birth, and their kids were asking them for an education or money to treat their typhoid.
If we could suspend reality like the Supreme Court has, let's pretend that the men who debated over and wrote the Constitution gave women a thought outside of their use to them sexually and domestically.
Like what if Daniel of St. Thomas of Jenifer (MD) said to Gouverneur Morris (PA), "Thank you so much for recommending that brothel last night. I had such a good time. I just hope I didn't impregnate that young sex worker. It would be an awful hardship on her. She is the sole supporter of her ailing mother and wants to go back to school for wig making. I also hope she doesn't ask me for money."
Gouverneur Morris (PA) probably would've responded with something like, "Dan My Man (MD)...they are professionals and know how to end a life-ruining, unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. It will always be that way. It's not like we have to write that down and enshrine it so some assholes 200 years from now will be cool with it."
Then they high-fived.
Or what if Gunning Bedford, Jr. (DE) called Jacob Broom (DE) over and whispered, "Dude, you know how my mistress got pregnant, and I was like so scared she was going to tell my wife?"
And Jacob Broom (DE) was like, "Yeah, Dude. I feel so bad for only you."
But then Bedford, Jr. (DE) came in clutch with, "Well, she got an abortion." Side-five, chest bump, side hug.
A messenger boy piped in and said, "My mother had an abortion once. She already had so many mouths to feed, and we were on the brink of complete desolation. It was the loving choice of a mother."
Everyone screamed back, "Shut your mouth, Poor!"
And finally, maybe Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (SC) said, "I don't know guys, I just have this weird feeling that the downfall of our new country will begin with power hungry political sociopaths making a diabolical pact with narcissistic con men who masquerade as religious leaders to trick desperate, lazy-thinking people into forcing women to give birth and remain subservient once they start to gain any sort of autonomy. Let's write to Tom Jefferson in France and see what he thinks. He's brilliant at predicting this sort of thing."
TJ's response: You guys do know that I rape people that I enslave, and when they give birth, I get another free slave, right?
Anyway, I think even this is way beyond the thought the Framers of the Constitution could have possibly given the issue of a second or third-class person's choice to carry an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy.
It also appears to be more than the extent to which the current conservative majority who were placed on the Court precisely to overturn Roe give a fuck about us.
Because this is the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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