The Stench of SCOTUS
Curtailing women’s rights in America is just the beginning.
There are only a few countries in the West that are hell bent on turning back the clock on the rights of women. Poland and Hungary come to mind. Globally, add in a few Islamic fundamentalist regimes, dictatorships and rogue states and, up until yesterday, you had a fairly complete list of the places where women are not free.
The US Supreme Court rumblings on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization make it unequivocal that America must now add itself to the list of countries / rogue states in the world where women are intentionally marginalized. Elsewhere, women’s rights continue a slow trajectory forward.
Let’s be clear: The law in Mississippi unjustly abridges a woman’s right to have an abortion and places an undue burden on the choice to have one. It makes it illegal for an under-age girl, or any woman, who has been raped to have an abortion after 15 weeks. Further, in a state with a large proportion of low-income Black women, the intent to victimize goes beyond gender and impacts race and social-economic fairness.
Will this institution survive the stench? — Justice Sonya Sotomayer
The court is in no way adopting a judicially conservative position. It is on a path to blatantly overturn its own guiding and compelling precedents in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
The court is in every way demonstrating that it is politically conservative. It can no longer be considered anything more than the political tool of a conservative agenda.
The reek emanating from the court is the odor that rises when justice has been abandoned. The US Supreme Court is setting itself up to be the greatest dismantler of progressive human rights in modern history.
Prepare yourself for a long slew of decisions that will skew towards privilege and inequality, in all political, social and economic affairs. Brace yourself for the coming battle, set to intensify, as America polarizes further.
Democrats must heed the day, meet the challenge and find a way to increase the size of the court and stack it with liberals. For any progressives who still cling to the notion that to tamper with the size of the court would be to water down its integrity, look again. Any integrity it may have had was watered down long ago.
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Tomas
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