Today’s Supreme Court ruling will imperil women’s lives. Will conservative Christians care?
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. Today’s ruling wasn’t the first domino to fall, but it’s a big one, and its ripple effects will be felt for years to come by anyone who cares about privacy, inclusion, tolerance, and love.
It’s the high point of a Christian nationalist agenda that aims to hurt as many people as possible outside the bubble.