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I’m just... I’m so speechless. I live in Texas [ugh] and many people I know have been downplaying the Heartbeat Act, ‘you can always go to another state’ [WHY tho, I live here], ‘nothing would happen to you’ [white woman], ‘it’s not that big of a deal’ [it IS], and so much more. No one is taking it seriously, and they won’t until it’s far too late. I got sterilized because of the Heartbeat Act, because I am terrified of bearing children [which should not be mixed with raising children, because I am 100% down for that shit]. I almost broke up with my boyfriend because he thought sterilization was a nuclear-level response to my fear of being/becoming pregnant - literally the only fight I’ve ever had with him, because he just doesn’t get it. He loves me, respects me, but thinks I’m going to regret having my tubes removed -- but fuck it, even if I do regret it, at least I can’t be forced to term in this hellscape.
He and most of the rest of the people in my life [to include my mom, who was ride-or-die for my surgery but still doesn’t understand why I’d be so upset about Roe v Wade, bless her confused heart] just can’t seem to grasp that this is a war on women - and We. Are. Losing.
Abortion rights allowed women agency over their bodies. It allowed them to relieve financial burdens - because they are still in school [hell, they could be a teenager/minor, not that a middle-aged woman has less of a right than this hypothetical kid] - or emotional burdens - because they are pregnant with their rapists’ child [and sometimes, their familial rapist, for the ‘fun’ incest twist].
They are tired of people not having kids, of not having peons to staff their businesses and slave their lives away, that they are forcing the matter. And I hate it.
Didn’t mean to rant, but fuck if this isn’t my soapbox. I’m down for civil conversation, but don’t attack me - or any other woman - for their choices when it comes to abortion or sterilization. It’s a heavy, hard choice but I made it with both eyes wide open.
Thank you to the brave SCOTUS clerk or staffer that probably committed career suicide to leak the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade when they knew the whole country would be glued to the internet looking for Met Gala looks.
As we watch elite rich people flaunt their wealth, remember that reproductive rights are being chipped away more and more everyday. While abortion remains legal nationwide for two more months, you are witnessing a direct attack on folks who can get pregnant, and specifically on Black, Latines, Asian and Indigenous folks.
And remember that it doesn't stop here. The implications are extreme and next on the list are Lawrence v. Texas (case that legalized sodomy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (case that legalized same-sex marriage). The draft opinion refers to see as phony rights. People are going to die on a large scale because of this.