In many a nation, this is still a man’s world. When it comes to western nations, though, the primacy of males has basically been replaced with a more collaborative understanding between the two sexes, which makes then for a better society. Yet, the United States, seems to have taken a major step back, in regards to the equality of the sexes, through its overturning of Roe v. Wade. While the actual Supreme Court decision, was itself, a stretch in its reasoning at the time, it had been, though, the established law for the entirety of the nation for nearly fifty years, and to thereby replace such with decisions now to be made by the State legislative branch or of subsequent laws enacted within an individual State, makes then for a whole lot of inconsistency, confusion, and stress, for those thus desiring to be in reasonable control of their reproductive rights of their own sovereign body.
We are taught to have respect for the law, but when an important law is substantially different, depending upon whether a given individual lives in one State or another, then respect for that law, as enacted, thereby, is going to be reduced, significantly. Of course, it has to be taken into account, that for those, that truly believe that life starts at conception, then the safe access to abortion, or the legitimacy of such, becomes, for them, a moral crusade. Still, the counter-argument to that, is that each one of us, should be sovereign in regards to our minds and of our bodies, and so it logically follows that females should be accorded the respect that they deserve, to make whatever appropriate decisions that they feel is best, for a fetus that they carry 100% inside of them, subject to reasonable restrictions, such as the viability of the fetus, on its own.
Further to the point, there is the law on the books, and then there is the actuality of the law in practice – in which, many a law is blatantly violated again and again – such as we see in people that indulge in marijuana, which still remains a Schedule I Federal crime. This thus indicates that even when abortion is stamped illegal, or is unavailable within a given State or county, that this does not, in and of itself, prevent abortions from happening, one way or another. In short, what so happens in those places in which access to a safe abortion is precluded, is that most of those people that have determined that they want an abortion, are going to find a way to accomplish that task – with the significant difference for them, being the risk of the procedure being unsafe, the expense, as well as the possibility of criminal penalties that they or others so involved, may be susceptible to.
Sure, the United States, can turn back the clock on abortion – for indeed, in certain States of this Union, it has already done so; but that is not going to take a medical procedure which happens hundreds of thousands of times each year, alongside medical pills that can induce an abortion on its own, being actually reduced significantly or ever trending towards zero. To believe that this is going to happen, is insensible – what will happen, though, is that the most vulnerable and marginalized amongst us, will unduly suffer for their lack of fair access to be in control of their own bodies, which is discriminatory and fundamentally wrong in every conceivable way.