roe v wade turns 39 today--will it see 40?

[niyad]

Roe v. Wade Turns 39, Will It See 40?
by Jessica Pieklo

I admit I came to the reproductive rights movement a little late, in large part because, like many women my age, I assumed my right to bodily autonomy would always be there. What a miscalculation that turned out to be.

Roe v. Wade turns 39 today and there are some real questions as to whether or not it can make it to 40. With over 1100 anti-abortion bills introduced at the state and federal level last year alone and with 2012 starting off with an enormous personhood push, women’s rights are under assault like never before.

So now would be a good time to just chill out and not worry about it so much, right ladies?

That’s what Dana Milbank argues, embracing the most predictable form of mansplaining about abortion rights that I’ve seen in a long time. The problem with the abortion debate is that we keep talking about it, says Milbank. The sky is not falling, ladies, so just stop worrying about it.

Milbank’s clumsy attempt to take both the left and the right to task for the “circus” that the Roe v. Wade anniversary has become shows just how little he understands the attacks on choice. Milbank blithely suggests the right needs to stop attacking birth control and comprehensive sex education without grasping, for a second, the reason the right attacks birth control and sex education is equal parts religious dogma and a fundamental belief that women’s only real purpose is to breed.

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Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/roe-v-wade-turns-39-will-it-see-40.html#ixzz1kCjeibn3

[xchrom]

1. all they have to do is to keep chipping away at it via states legislatures.

and they are doing that very successfully.

[niyad]

6. "the handmaid's tale" is a nightmare not that far off.

oh, and there have been repukes (last year, even) talking about repealing the 19th amendment

[Initech]

3. Why can't CU inspire this kind of extreme lawmaking?

Oh wait - fetuses aren't involved. Never mind.

[rustydog]

4. RvW will not be overturned. it is a vote-getting issue for "Christian Conservatives"

Once Roe V Wade is overturned, there is no issue for the Repugnants to run on. They will never truly try to overturn it, theywill run for office on it.

[niyad]

5. the problem with that thinking is overlooking the extreme hatred for women that

is at the bottom of this. that might be more important, the controlling of women, more important than more votes.

[cbdo2007]

7. True, and it's also a money making issue for many liberals.

Some new random "anti-abortion" bill doesn't mean we're any closer to overturning Roe v Wade, but in the mean time there are many people on both sides making millions of $$$ on the issue, who really don't give a shit about anybody's rights.