.AntheaButler: The religious right's careful plan to upend Roe has been hiding in plain sight for decades.
, which is also on the Supreme Court docket. Indeed, for pro-life Catholics and evangelicals, the spate of decisions expected in June can’t come soon enough.
Meanwhile, the hand-wringing of liberals and Democrats is warranted. But frankly, the party’s inability to mount a strategic political and fiscal response to the religious right’s decadeslong campaign rankles. Women on both sides of the debate are bracing themselves. There are, of course, many women who believe abortion is wrong; the owner of a “” in Texas is preparing to take care of the babies that will now inevitably be born to women who can’t get abortions. A 21st-century Gilead right in Texas, leader of curtailing abortion rights.
And while we have been trained by pro-life arguments to think about abortion as a moral issue, it is also an economic one. Any reversal of rightswho are poor, have limited access to prenatal care or abortion fees, or are underage. Young, financially insecure victims of sexual assault are at particular risk. Rich women will almost always be able to obtain abortions, legal or not. Other women will scrape up the means from partners. Other women will go without.
The writing is on the wall of the Supreme Court. But the drafts of that writing can be found in churches around the country. The court, which
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