Six of the 12 new female members of the United States House of Representatives in the office of the Speaker of the House. From left: Martha Griffiths, Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Holtzman, Barbara Jordan, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, and Bella Abzug. Photo: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images For those of us old enough to remember the tumultuous year 1973, when the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion as a constitutional right, today’s upheavals have unmistakable and instructive similarities.
Today’s skyrocketing price of gasoline triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is reminiscent of the Arab oil embargo launched in 1973 by Middle Eastern petrostates, led by Saudi Arabia, as a form of retaliation following that year’s disastrous Yom Kippur War, when a coalition of Arab nations attacked Israel and was defeated with help from the United States.
The early draft of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion shows Justice Alito hell-bent on settling scores with the justices who decided Roe . Alito makes no attempt to shield his contempt for the reasoning behind Roe, resting his argument on the fact that the Constitution makes no reference to abortion and suggesting that no such right exists.
That is the big difference today. In the year Roe passed, second-wave feminism was in full swing and gathering political and cultural momentum. Helen Reddy’s anthemic “I Am Woman” won a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1973. In pro tennis, a much-ballyhooed “Battle of the Sexes” at the Houston Astrodome pitted a young Billie Jean King against an aging ex-champion, Bobby Riggs, a self-described “chauvinist” who lost in straight sets before an audience of 90 million viewers.
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