Some thoughts.
Not surprising. But still outrageous.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 3, 2022
This decision is a direct assault on the dignity, rights, & lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law. It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal. What an utter disgrace. https://t.co/TNo1IX3Tl4
It's alarming how a handful of individuals – majoritively men – can simply override the fundamental right of women's bodily autonomy.
— Women's Equality Party (@WEP_UK) May 3, 2022
Reproductive rights underpin ALL woman’s rights. This very serious threat against #RoeVsWade is an outrage. https://t.co/tqzfBeYm7w
If you refuse to use the word woman when discussing what is happening in the US right now then you are no feminist. Abortion is a women’s rights issue.
— Gina Davidson (@wornoutmumhack) May 3, 2022
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4 responses to “Still outrageous”
It’s a direct result of the 2016 election, and Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett being named instead of whoever Clinton would have named. I agree with Davidson, though. It’s very hard to overcome a woman’s movement split when many women won’t demand that the word “women” be used and men.get away with the dehumanizing ideas of gender ideology.
Mike, from my reading on the subject, it appears the women’s movement has always been split and has had a tendency to purge hard working women from the movement for “wrong think” on some issue or another. This is probably the worst split we’ve had, and I do think it will be the hardest to overcome. Trans has entrenched in the LGB movement, it is trying to get entrenched in the anti-racism movement, and it has gotten itself entrenched in half of the women’s movement.
The vitriol leveled at GC feminists is at least as bad as the vitriol leveled at Suffragists and Suffragettes. I hope these TAs don’t read the books and papers that detail the abuse women went through in jail during the Suffrage movement; they’ll get too many ideas. The women were treated worse than rapists, murderers, thieves, or any other crime. Why? Because men didn’t want to share power. Because men didn’t want to be asked to wash their own socks. Because men wanted to control women, and especially their reproduction. Well, it looks like we might be there on that last one, for sure.
Hillary should have been president these past years. I can’t have nice things. :(
One would hope that women would make women’s issues women’s political priority. Unfortunately, as partisan animus and the salience of non-gendered issues grow, so too does the difficulty of looking at another woman and seeing woman before and above party affiliation. That this phenomenon is exploited by those who oppose women’s interests really shouldn’t be surprising. Nonetheless, it is often tragic.