This commentary by Susan J. Demas on September 3, 2021 in The Michigan Advance and think it’s very worth sharing. It’s at michiganadvance.com/….
This week, my almost 19-year-old daughter stepped foot on her college campus to take classes for the first time (a year late thanks to the loud, selfish minority’s continual refusal to take COVID seriously).
As I hugged her goodbye, it occurred to me that she now has fewer rights as a woman than I did when I left the nest for college 27* years ago.
Thanks to five far-right Supreme Court justices cowardly dropping an opinion in the dead of night Thursday essentially gutting Roe v. Wade, millions of people in Texas just lost their right to safe, legal abortion. (Of course, abortion has been around thousands of years and will always continue — it’s just more people will desperately seek out risky methods). Other red states will giddily follow.
I’ll leave you to read her article w/o any commentary by me.