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We Should All Be Outraged About the Potential End of Abortion
Republicans want to strip women of their rights and control their wombs. And with the Supreme Court’s help, they might get their way.
For the last couple of decades, America has seen local governments chip away at constitutional rights. With the recent Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it appears the far right may be on the verge of striking oil — a gusher that could overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wade and 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, two of the most important decisions to affect women’s reproductive rights. If the country’s highest court decides to rule in favor of Mississippi, by next year, women nationwide will be stripped of their constitutional right to legally abort a pregnancy.
Many may wonder why red states have chosen this new decade to fire slingshots at the 14th Amendment. Well, there are a few reasons. First and ostensibly most essential is that the Supreme Court is now a conservative super majority. With last year’s passing of the late great Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the scales in the Supreme Court have tipped toward the elephants. Ginsburg passed at the worst time: during Donald Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office. Ginsburg vehemently believed and vocalized that women’s equality…
