I was thinking the Extreme Right was trying to take us back to the good old days of 1958 when June Cleaver wore pearls while making dinner from her Betty Crocker cookbook.
The Extreme Right would overturn
- Obergefell (gay marriage)
- Roe (abortion)
- Griswold (contraception)
- Loving (homosexuality)
- Voting Rights (1965)
- Civil Rights (1964 ending Jim Crow)
But, I was wrong. The new case against Mifepristone (RU486) rested on the Comstock Act of 1873 which criminalized the distribution of pornography (including lewd letters), contraceptives, and abortifacients. There is now talk of a campaign against “recreational sex” commonly known as “sex”. In this fantasy trip in the way-back machine, will the Extreme Right pass by the women’s right to vote (1920)? Should women be allowed to own property and open bank accounts? How about the 14th amendment that made inter-racial marriage legal? The ER wants to reverse the 20th century. Do they want to reverse the 19th century too? This attack on social progress must be soundly defeated.