What Will Americans Do When Birth Control is Illegal?
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 states 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 couples right to privacy in their own bedroom couldnt 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 Amendments Due Process clause that guarantees legal process before government can violate our privacy. Starting with Griswold in 1965, the Court asserted every Americans 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 individuals 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 werent 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
(11,642 posts)Apparently, they just cant keep their noses out of other peoples bedrooms and bathrooms.
Republicans are openly are paving the way to fascism and a dictatorship. They should be taken very seriously.
appalachiablue
(41,265 posts)Republicans are openly are paving the way to fascism and a dictatorship. They should be taken very seriously.
AllaN01Bear
(19,076 posts)Deuxcents
(16,517 posts)And were 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. Its dangerous to be a woman of child bearing age.
appalachiablue
(41,265 posts)Magoo48
(4,733 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,390 posts)Make babies or go home.
CrispyQ
(36,622 posts)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
(41,265 posts)this up several years ago, dead on.
CrispyQ
(36,622 posts)People never think it through. It can't happen here. It can't happen to me. ~sigh
appalachiablue
(41,265 posts)ratchiweenie
(7,758 posts)CrispyQ
(36,622 posts)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.
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