Priscilla's Workshop

 Better not blink or you might miss something important.  Maya Angelou once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”

"Clarence Thomas, explicitly called for the court to reconsider its rulings striking down state restrictions on contraceptives, state sodomy bans and state prohibitions on same-sex marriage.

'Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous,' Thomas wrote, "we have a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents."

 

Just because you think contraception is not only legal but a wise choice for family planning, career goals, education, etc., doesn't mean that Griswold v Connecticut has any stronger place in US jurisprudence than the precedent establishing a right to an abortion. If you think that's fear-mongering you haven't been paying attention. There are many reasons why that "right" will be the next one directly attacked, but the most compelling reason for someone like Thomas is that some forms of contraception are viewed as abortifacient.  Add to that the disdain that so many conservatives hold for women, (Alito complained that Princeton should never have admitted women because he felt they sullied the nature of Princeton. Don't tell him that Woodrow Wilson would not have allowed his admission as an Italian Catholic) and you too might want to warn all your younger friends, male and female, to lay in a long-term supply. For heaven's sake, the man who wrote the Mississippi abortion law under question at the court said publicly that he hoped it would make all women in Mississippi think twice before ever having sex. Just the women, mind you. He didn't make any comment about the male side of the pregnancy. If that isn't a disturbing disruption of the 14th Amendment I cannot think of a more clear example of unequal rights under the law. Apparently this man thinks women spread their legs and men have needs.

I never had an abortion though one of my sisters did and other women I know did as well including a physician friend who aborted a pregnancy because of serious and irreversible physical abnormalities in the fetus. I, like many women including my own mother, had an unplanned pregnancy but I chose to bear that child. But it WAS my choice.  If you cannot conceive without in vitro fertilization or some other modern medical intervention you might want to give up if you live in any of the states that abolished abortion as soon as SCOTUS made its announcement. Most of the modern methods produce unwanted embryos that are discarded, thus in essence aborting those that are not implanted or that do not thrive. Tough luck on that front too.