American Women Ambushed in the Dark by the Supreme Court

No matter your stance on abortion, Politico’s report of the Supreme Court’s intention to overturn Roe vs. Wade reveals power run amok. It conjures up mostly robed men entrusted with protecting the rights of all citizens skulking about behind closed doors doing just the opposite.

Yes, as Politico reports, “some court-watchers predicted that the conservative majority would slice away at abortion rights without flatly overturning a 49-year-old precedent.” That, however, is not what is about to happen. In one fell swoop, by rejecting the logic and legal protections of Roe, passed into law by a mostly Republican Supreme Court, women are consigned to ignorance and moral ineptitude unable to formulate the right choice on their own.

What next? Let’s extend this looming decision to include men. Now that’s novel. Let’s go to the root cause of Alito’s definition of an “unborn child” – sex. This or a future Supreme Court might let states ban what they see as irresponsible sex. Perhaps men about to have sex with women of childbearing age will be required to sign papers accepting their share of culpability should pregnancy result. Otherwise, are we not putting the burden on only one participant?

That may sound far-fetched. But it’s quite possible that ramifications beyond our imaginations will come from the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. In some states women might be arrested if they travel to another state for an abortion. Here again, would the man who was half the cause of consensual sex go free? We know the answer to that. 

But wait, perhaps men will wake up some morning to find themselves handcuffed for not stopping women from leaving their states for abortions. After all, supposedly pregnant women can’t be trusted to make the right decision. Not in America. Not according to the Supreme Court.

And what of Alito’s specious argument that most aborted fetuses are black so some people supporting abortion must be trying to suppress the size of the African American population? Has he been inside too long? Or does he simply think the rest of us are stupid?