It's about civil liberty. All of our civil liberties. And nothing to do with what some claim to be "right to life".Yeah, yeah. The right to life argument. What of it? A hope that a baby can be forced onto a woman who may or may not be healthy enough to go through with the pregnancy? That may or may not have the wherewithal to provide for the child after it is born? That a woman raped must carry through and forever have a reminder of her rapist all her life? That a young woman bear the fruits of incest?
I have heard the argument that the extraction and dilation abortion technique, which was conveniently renamed "partial birth abortion" (not by obstetricians), but by political hacks on the religious right, was specifically targeted because of it's gruesome nature. Even so, a life is a life right. I sincerely do not think that the pro-life movement and lobby will stop here.
What would the consequence of the overturn of Roe v. Wade be? Certainly women would lose the freedom of their own reproductive decision-making. That is the root of this matter, right there alongside the right to life argument.
Eroding the choices a woman makes in life and society. It's a mans world and don't you forget it.
