What Will Americans Do When Birth Control is Illegal?

[appalachiablue]

Daily Kos, By Thom Hartmann, Oct. 20, 2023. Ed.

Last year, all 3 candidates in the Republican race for Michigan Attorney General proudly confirmed that they believed the 1965 Supreme Court case Griswold v Connecticut was “wrongly decided” on privacy grounds and that it was an infringement on a state’s right to imprison women, regardless of marital status, who use birth control.

Yes, birth control.

Each described himself as a “Christian” and implied his opposition to Griswold was grounded in his religious faith. For over a 100 years in heavily Catholic (39% of the population) Conn. it had been a crime punishable by imprisonment for a married couple to possess any form of birth control. Estelle Griswold, the head of Conn. Planned Parenthood, sued to overturn the law and the Court agreed, saying a couple’s “right to privacy” in their own bedroom couldn’t be violated.

That was followed, in 1972, by the Supreme Court legalizing possession of birth control for unmarried men and women in their Eisenstadt v. Baird decision; it was also based on a reading of the Bill of Rights starting with the 14th Amendment’s Due Process clause that guarantees legal process before government can violate our privacy. Starting with Griswold in 1965, the Court asserted every American’s right to privacy as a function of that clause (among others) in several cases.

The following year, 1973, the Court used that same rationale of “an individual’s right to privacy” over what goes on with, in, and about their own body to legalize abortion in Roe v Wade. The right to privacy argument also undergirds the Court legalizing gay relationships in Lawrence v Texas (2003) and gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). The Michigan Republicans weren’t the only ones saying that the entire idea of a “right to privacy” is a bunch of hooey...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/20/2200578/-What-Will-Americans-Do-When-Birth-Control-is-Illegal

[dlk]

1. Republicans are chipping away at our right to privacy

Apparently, they just can’t keep their noses out of other people’s bedrooms and bathrooms.

Republicans are openly are paving the way to fascism and a dictatorship. They should be taken very seriously.

[appalachiablue]

6. This. How to reach uninformed and brainwashed Americans.

Republicans are openly are paving the way to fascism and a dictatorship. They should be taken very seriously.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. it is now . think. back alley abortion. abandoned babies , mothers with health care problems and so fourth.

[Deuxcents]

3. Roe is gone. Now they're after birth control

And we’re reading about birthing hospitals closing. Pre natal care non existent in a lot of counties. All this in the US..not some third world country. It’s dangerous to be a woman of child bearing age.

[appalachiablue]

9. K/R

[Magoo48]

4. They will either get over their fear of being inconvenienced and stand up as one, or not.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. IOW, recreational sex is unlawful.

Make babies or go home.

[CrispyQ]

10. But what about all the men who want rec sex?

Oh, we have whores for that.

So basically there are two classes of women, mothers & whores. I am sick, sick, sick to death of this type of man. They are a scourge on our species & we have a culture that cultivates them.

[appalachiablue]

11. Baby producers, preferably white, Eugenics style. TH brought

this up several years ago, dead on.

[CrispyQ]

12. Once they tell you you have to have a baby, they can tell you you can't have a baby, too.

People never think it through. It can't happen here. It can't happen to me. ~sigh

[appalachiablue]

13. If they gain complete power it will be authoritarian hell. It can happen here. I feel for younger generations already deprived and struggling.

[ratchiweenie]

7. They might finally rise up and get rid of the legislature one way or another.

[CrispyQ]

8. Women are just incubators for the human race. Men are the only humans that matter & white men the most.

Young people could change this awful trajectory if they vote in mass & vote blue. They can't be swayed by third party promises.

Bernie Sanders nailed it in 2015 when he switched from being an Independent to a Democrat to run for president & he said, there are only two ways to the White House & one way is through the Democratic Party & the other is through the Republican Party because they are the only two parties with the infrastructure needed to run a national campaign & win.

That may change in the future but we're not there yet.