The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "The same social movement that succeeded in getting these criminal abortion laws passed such that Alito could count the laws in Dobbs -- that same movement was very concerned about native-born white women having lower birth rates than non-native women and Black women," Bridges said.To say that we see similar nativism and sexism today would be a stark understatement.
56% : "No one to my knowledge has ever argued that the children of invading aliens are entitled to birthright citizenship," he said in an interview published after the election.
53% : (Importantly, there are also multiple abortion bounty laws in effect.)
50% : States and private lawyers have set about demolishing those rights, and the Supreme Court has responded in turn: It gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, a 2013 ruling that Goodwin said basically ignored the Reconstruction Amendments; overturned Roe despite scholarship showing a Fourteenth Amendment basis for bodily autonomy following the end of inheritable chattel slavery; and then ended affirmative action in college admissions in 2023.
48% : The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to extend full citizenship to formerly enslaved Black people, and it undergirds the right of all Americans to be treated equally under the law, no matter who they are or in which state they reside.
47% : "Yet prominent anti-abortion group Students for Life argues that "the human rights of all Americans -- born and preborn -- are anchored again in the 14th Amendment."
46% : States are quickly passing laws and filing litigation over issues such as abortion and trans rights because the makeup of the courts provides a chance "to make movement within these particular spaces," Goodwin said.
43% : These fights culminated in protections including the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and, yes, Roe v. Wade.
43% : Abortion before that point was common -- Benjamin Franklin even published an herbal remedy -- but it was known not as abortion, rather as "restoring the menses."
37% : Under Trump 2.0, she said, the U.S. would once again be removing people from the U.S. because they are not white.

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