A majority of Democrats in the House and Senate submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to protect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Forty-seven Democratic senators and 212 House members urged the high court to overturn the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling reinstating an in-person requirement to obtain mifepristone, which has not been enforced in five years. “The Fifth Circuit’s Order should be stayed because the relief it granted has no basis in law, threatens the congressionally-mandated evidence-based process for drug-regulatory decisions, and poses a serious health risk to pregnant individuals,” Democrats wrote in the brief. “Mifepristone, which patients have used for more than 25 years as part of the most common and recommended regimen for medication abortion, should not be made more difficult to access across the entire country,” they added. It follows a Monday order from Justice Samuel Alito, who briefly halted the ruling that would prevent the abortion pill from being prescribed without an in-person doctor visit.
Sure. Abortion pills. Don’t worry about pursuing the cabal of child sex traffickers (that’s just what we KNOW they did, who knows what other unspeakable acts they are STILL COMMITTING), or ICE murderers, or the WAR in Iran, or the underage girls being raped in ICE detention (remember that one?), or the rollback of civil rights, or the open bribery of the SCOTUS, or any of the flagrant putrid corruption in the White House.
Explain to us how unwanted, forced births make any of those societal ills better?
Hint: they don’t. Walling off abortion to the privilege of the rich, which is all that criminalizing it does, simply ensures a better, unending supply of poor bodies to be trafficked, sent to war, or used as labor – and, as someone else rightfully pointed out, is itself a rollback of not only a civil right but also what I consider to be a basic human right for everyone, men and women alike: the right to control one’s own body and reproduction.
When you make a stand against abortion, you are very literally arguing FOR the perpetuation of the exact situations you claim to care about.
Preventing access to abortion is a direct line to keeping women “barefoot and pregnant” as the saying goes, ill-educated because they’re out of school as soon as the babies start coming, and financially powerless to walk away with ease from situations and outcomes that are not in their best interests, nor in the best interests of all these unwanted children, forever dependent on those with more money and ulterior motives just for their basic needs.
TL;DR: If you actually gave a shit about ANY of the marginalized and misused people you listed, then you’d absolutely give a shit about abortion access: these are NOT separate issues.
This is part of the rollback of civil rights
Im going to guess you’re a man not at risk of dying from an ectopic pregnancy because the dumbest people in your country decided to play doctor.