Bodily control and the color line | MR Online

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : The upshot of this emerging court consensus is brutally clear: as soon as the opinion is formally released, abortion will cease to be a woman's constitutional right in the United States.
41% : Under the broad framework of the court's consensus in Dobbs, look for other red states to embark on a race to the bottom -- not only to criminalize abortion but to victimize and punish all those (including, most especially, the people seeking to terminate a pregnancy) who may be suspected of carrying it out.
35% : Individual states can now pass laws that forbid and criminalize abortion.
34% : For abortion foes looking to exert maximal control over women's bodies, it's never sufficient to condemn abortion and subject women seeking to terminate their pregnancies to detention and criminal fines.
33% : In 2022, opposing abortion is not only sexist; it is also racist.
26% : Even though laws against abortion were never enforced in Britain itself, strict criminalization of abortion was enacted in India because the putatively poor moral character of Indian women required it.
23% : There is no way to understand the Alito opinion's determined push to re-criminalize abortion apart from this longstanding racist obsession with controlling the bodies of Black and Brown women.
20% : In it, Alito writes with emphatic disdain of the landmark 1973 high court ruling establishing a constitutional right to abortion:Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.

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