I, along with many throughout the country, was furious when the Politico story leaked the Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. It is undeniably a revolting document that proves he is completely out of touch with American women.
In the document Alito has the audacity to reference one Sir Matthew Hale who “described abortion of a quick child who died in the womb as a ‘great crime’ and a ‘great misprision…”
I cannot, for the life of me, understand, why in the actual fuck Hale is being quoted at all. He is not even an American. He is a 17th century English jurist who had two women executed for witchcraft and literally wrote that women cannot be raped by their husbands.
Perhaps… we can forgive Hale for writing such antiquated ideals, as he was, after all, writing them over three hundred years ago. What in the fuck is Alito’s excuse???
As the shock was wearing off, a new realization hit me almost as fast as the Democratic party fundraising pleas. Where in the bloody hell were the Democrats? Roe v. Wade has been nothing but an endless source of flowery campaign promises and an endless stream of fundraising for Democrats for almost 50 years!
In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama promised Planned Parenthood that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act on his first day as President. Not only did he not sign, he downgraded the urgency for this act by stating in 2009 that the “Freedom of Choice Act [was] not his highest legislative priority,” and that it was more important to “tamp down some of the anger surrounding this issue” by working to “focus on areas we can agree on.”
In fact, it has been nothing short of a financial boon for the Democratic party to have this leak happen right before midterms, with people breathlessly donating to Democratic candidates in order to save the sanctity of our wombs. Barf. Just barf.
The Democrats literally haven’t done anything for almost 50 years, All the while knowing that this would happen as soon as SCOTUS became mostly conservative. 50 YEARS!!!!
Don’t worry, though, this time THIS TIME it will be different.
Here we find ourselves, 49 years after Roe, once again having women’s health care needs being decided by penises in robes behind closed doors. Not to mention that the darling of them all, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, suffering from terminal cancer, couldn’t retire and let Obama fill her seat. She had to stubbornly hold on to her position only to die under President Donald Trump knowing that Roe was faulty and at risk.
Because of that decision, we got saddled with Amy Coney Barrett, who is siding with Alito. Fan-fucking-tastic.
It is easy but over simplified to be angry with conservatives (and they deserve every bit of vitriol they are receiving and then some). They have made no bones about where they stand on these issues. They have told us for decades that they were coming for Roe.
A corpse has literally more body autonomy than a woman once this happens.
As conservative states work to enact draconian measures against women in the guise of protecting fetuses (Louisiana has already moved to not only make abortion illegal, those fucking buffoons want to call it homicide.)
Will women will once again be forced to take extreme measures for their own health and safety?
It has only been a few days, and already the dam is breaking.
And, I am fucking mad about it.