Yesterday I had a private message from a friend who is of opinion all this ‘Roe V Wade’ stuff is ’Left Wing Talking Point Cliché’. Making the point that abortion is a state issue.
I wonder how many others have had similar responses from friends or family members and wonder how many people do not realise what could also end up being at stake.
As such I would also like to point out that what is under threat here is NOT just Roe V Wade and women’s access to safe medical abortion.
It’s MUCH worse than most people realise, as it means this re-interpretation of 14th Amendment under “substantive due process clause” may potentially allow the same rationale which allowed Roe v Wade to be overturned, to also be applied to:
· Women’s right to access and use contraception
· Reverse legality interracial marriage
· Reverse legality of same sex marriage etc.
On the day Roe v Wade was dumped, Google searches for ‘moving to Canada’; from within USA jumped 850% so clearly many Americans are getting concerned.
My conclusion is - what is happening in the USA should NOT be minimised and is potentially extremely serious.
We should also remember that USA’s Supreme Court Justices are jobs for LIFE and they are politically appointed.
What worries me is that Australia is that Murdoch has a stranglehold on Australia’s media and we’ve seen what that’s capable of before. Australia has one of the most concentrated media ownership of any democratic country in the world with Murdoch having control or ownership of around 69% the right wing leaning media bias is then extended further with the ownership of the media ownership / control of Kerry Stokes and Peter Costello.
This isn’t about left vs. right. This is 100% about human rights vs. religious fundamentalism. As we are now witnessing in the USA - All it takes is the wrong people in the right key positions.
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