Hemant Mehta ✒ Today’s Supreme Court ruling will imperil women’s lives. Will conservative Christians care?

On Sunday, conservative Christian pastors across America will celebrate the terror they’ve unleashed upon the nation.

With a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court this morning to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving women’s bodily autonomy dependent on whether Republicans control their state legislatures, white evangelicals and conservative Catholics and their allies won a game they began playing decades ago when they decided abortion was a better rallying cry for their troops than straight-up racism.

This battle won’t stop here, either. If Republicans manage to control Congress and the White House in the future, you can bet that the first bill they pass will be a nationwide ban on the procedure after a few weeks, before most women even know they’re pregnant. As the dissenting justices said today, “The challenge for a woman will be to finance a trip not to ‘New York [or] California’ but to Toronto.”

Even Clarence Thomas, who interrupted his involvement with one coup to participate in another one this morning, urged the Court to use this decision to overturn “Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell“—that is, access to contraception, same-sex relationships, and marriage equality. 

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The Christian Nationalist Dream Of Overturning Roe Is A Nightmare

Hemant Mehta ✒ Today’s Supreme Court ruling will imperil women’s lives. Will conservative Christians care?

On Sunday, conservative Christian pastors across America will celebrate the terror they’ve unleashed upon the nation.

With a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court this morning to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving women’s bodily autonomy dependent on whether Republicans control their state legislatures, white evangelicals and conservative Catholics and their allies won a game they began playing decades ago when they decided abortion was a better rallying cry for their troops than straight-up racism.

This battle won’t stop here, either. If Republicans manage to control Congress and the White House in the future, you can bet that the first bill they pass will be a nationwide ban on the procedure after a few weeks, before most women even know they’re pregnant. As the dissenting justices said today, “The challenge for a woman will be to finance a trip not to ‘New York [or] California’ but to Toronto.”

Even Clarence Thomas, who interrupted his involvement with one coup to participate in another one this morning, urged the Court to use this decision to overturn “Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell“—that is, access to contraception, same-sex relationships, and marriage equality. 

Continue reading @ Friendly Atheist.

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