Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Woman-hating land

A terrifying article in the Guardian shows just what a dangerous place much of the US seems to be on the way to becoming as the Trump-tainted Supreme Court takes up abortion. Without the cover of Roe v. Wade, women would in a majority of states not only be unable to make decisions about their own pregnancies, but liable to criminal prosecution in a horrifying number of ways if their pregnancies don't come to term. An observation of Ellen Willis', quoted in Michelle Goldberg's column in the NYTimes, rings grimly truer than ever: "the central question in the abortion debate is not whether a fetus is a person, but whether a woman is."