COMMENTARY: Nothing about women’s economic, educational, social, or legal attainment over the last 50 years is separable from the right to abortion, writes Leigh Gilmore.
Nothing about the expansion of our lives beyond the limitations of the most fringe interpretation of our value -- as mere reproductive vessels -- is dissoluble from the right to control our fertility.
This sounds archaic because it is. Most people in the U.S. don’t think this way now, nor did they in 1973 whenIf the leaked opinion stands, a chasm will open between a world in which abortion was legal and one in which the full force of the law will be directed to punish anyone who seeks, receives, assists in, or provides one. The violence of this rupture is impossible to overstate. The Supreme Court plans to strip away a right that has been part of American life for 50 years.
Court historians observe that it can take years for justices to settle into their roles on the Court. But the three Trump-appointed justices — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — have only been on the Court five, three, and one year, respectively. This inexperienced core will do what the Court has not done in my lifetime: strip away a right. They will not tweak or otherwise slightly shift it.
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