It shouldn’t take another American revolution for women in this country to simply have full autonomy over their bodies. We don’t need a new government. We just need the people who run this one to r…
If men could get pregnant, the saying goes, the Declaration of Independence might well have declared that all men are endowed with the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and a safe abortion. A colleague once suggested to me that such phrasing wouldn’t have been necessary. It would simply have been taken for granted that men had an inalienable right to terminate a pregnancy.
Same with the U.S. Constitution — if men could get pregnant, the white male framers of the Constitution would have written in the right to an abortion. Then we wouldn’t have had Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. last year complaining he couldn’t find abortion in the Constitution and having to rely on 17th century common laws criminalizing abortion for guidance when he was overturning Roe vs. Wade.
Now, instead, what is being spelled out in the law is what women can’t do with their bodies. In some states, they can’t terminate a pregnancy after 12 weeks of gestation, or six weeks — or ever, unless maybe they get so ill during a pregnancy that they will die without an abortion. Millions of child-bearing women live in states with no abortion rights or extremely restricted rights, putting them at risk of having to give birth against their will.
Meanwhile, not only has the Senate failed to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, codifying the right to abortion into federal law, but it couldn’t even manage to pass legislation ensuring a right to contraception. Republicans blocked the bill. Contraception does remain legal by virtue of two landmark Supreme Court rulings — Griswold vs. Connecticut in 1965 and Eisenstadt vs.
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