A leak from the US Supreme Court looks set to overturn Roe v Wade. This would overturn a range of abortion rights in the United States. One thing is certain, if the leaks come to fruition, as they seem set to, then this is a massive win for white Christian fundamentalists.
States have steadily restricted access to abortions since Roe v. Wade, which have disproportionately harmed poor women already abandoned by the state- no universal healthcare, no support for childcare, no UBI, etc. – and will be most impacted now. This is a war on the poor.
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) May 4, 2022
Christian fundamentalism
Some social media users taking in the news made comparisons to the Taliban. These tweets do not bear repeating.
As Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg pointed out, Christian nationalism plays a central part in the denial of abortion rights:
Don’t you dare make Islamophobic analogies to the Roe news.
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) May 3, 2022
This SCOTUS draft is homegrown Christian nationalism, with all the markings of American history at its worst.
Look at the people in that majority. Grapple with that.
Thread with more below.
I see that the “sharia law” takes have arisen again and would like to reshare this 2020 thread on how and why using Islam and Muslims as a default for measuring and defining religious fundamentalism is just bigoted and grossly ahistorical (anti-historical!). https://t.co/iZ861TCDOu
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) May 3, 2022