After the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday evening, the court announced plans to consider hearing a case on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, also known as “The Gestational Age Act.” Lower courts had previously declared the ban unconstitutional under the precedent of Roe v. Wade, but the Mississippi Attorney General filed the case with the Supreme Court this summer, and the court will decide whether to hear the case this Friday.
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Why does this matter? It is the beginning of the end of reproductive freedom. If the Supreme Court overturns even this small part of Roe v. Wade, it would lead to the states’ abilities to impose legal restrictions on abortion during any part of the pregnancy. ANY PART. Is this where reality finally finishes it’s full transformation to Hulu’s version of The Handmaids Tale. I did not sign up for this.
I do, however, seriously feel like if we ever have to resort to back alley abortions, we need to form a back alley training program too. The nurses of the world can unite to to keep our women safe and healthy, even if we have to do it illegally!!!
Now that sounds like the plot to a futuristic political drama.