The message in the title is directed to certain members of the Supreme Court of the United States. SCOTUS has thrown out the Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal at the federal level for 50 years. And now that the federal protection is gone, state after state is moving to eliminate abortion entirely.
This is going to kill women. Lots of women, especially poor and black women. Women who already have 3 or 5 kids and can't afford to feed any more.
This decision was made by 5 men and a woman. I am appalled that a woman could do that to her sisters; but I understand she belonged to a patriarchal sect which believed that women should obey men. Hence the betrayal - she did what the men wanted.
Full disclosure: I don't have a dog in this fight. Yes, hedera is a woman, but I'm well past menopause, and I won't ever have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. I'm not affected here. But I feel for the women who can't afford the contraceptives, who can't afford to feed one more kid, who are underage and can't have a child without blowing away the education that would allow them to feed and clothe it.
The current majority on the Supreme Court is working on eliminating the 19th and 20th centuries, and throwing the U.S. back to the 18th century, when only landowning white men could vote, and women were their husbands' chattel property - along with the black slaves who served both of them. And nobody who wasn't a heterosexual white male had any rights at all. Am I overstating? I don't think so. Clarence Thomas has already suggested eliminating the court decisions that allowed gay sex, gay marriage, and contraception!
With all that in mind, I repeat my initial statement to the 6 judges of SCOTUS who did this: I spit on you. You are a disgrace to your office.
I except the three dissenters. I do not spit on them; I thank them for their courage.
