When the radical right-wing majority of the Supreme Court overturned fish eggs tmany years agoJustice Sonia Sotomayor Written inside Dobbs decided, “It is with sadness – for this Court, but more than that, for the millions of American women who today have lost basic constitutional protections – that we dissent.” Instead of satisfying reason, the downfall of fish eggs has opened the floodgates. If eliminating constitutional protections for abortion is possible, what else could happen? ONE federal abortion ban? What about the ban? In vitro fertilisation? Maybe Contraception? One is encouraged to have a very long wish list.
Everything post-fish eggs was moving at lightning speed, with 21 states go backwards by banning the procedure or severely restricting it. America is considerably more backward than our mothers ever dreamed worst nightmares, as women’s lives are in danger as doctors are concerned to take action even in the event of a medical emergency. In Tennessee, doctors refused to perform abortions woman holding a newborn baby will certainly die, while a woman suffering a miscarriage seeks care in Missouri and Kansas were denied abortions, prompting the Biden administration to issue a “shortage declaration” to those hospitals. A report by Lift Louisiana, a reproductive rights organization, establish In some cases doctors waited until pregnant women turn two years old provide prenatal care out of concern they may be blamed for a first-trimester miscarriage.
In this post-fish eggs Hellscape, Republican politicians now regulate the medical care pregnant women can and cannot get in red states. Women who want or need an abortion are forced to travel hundreds of miles. Some are infertilewhile others do seriously injuredIt’s all because the conservative majority was created by Donald Trump His three Supreme Court selections took away women’s rights in America for nearly half a century.
Either way, losing this right will only convince more Americans that abortion is health care. Sixty-three percent of American adults speak According to the Pew Research Center, abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and new internal polling provided to me by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee speaks to the political resonances. ahead of the November election that will decide which party controls the White House and both houses of Congress.
The DCCC found in its battleground poll of 67 congressional districts that abortion “is more likely to drive voter choice than any other option: 36% of voters will not vote to a candidate for Congress if they disagree with them on abortion rights.”
That could spell trouble for some of the 125 Republicans who sponsored it Life at Conception Actwhich defines the term human is “all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other time at which an individual of the human species comes into being.” Democrats believe reproductive rights will help them win back the House.
Chair of Impact Research Molly Murphy, who conducted the DCCC poll, said in an email, “We already know that a majority of voters support protecting reproductive freedom. Our data also shows they will vote for it. The public saw radical Republicans applauding the Supreme Court overturn fish eggs and their efforts to pass a nationwide ban – and voters are telling us that they feel strongly about protecting abortion rights, [that] it emerged as the top ‘deal-breaker’ issue for voters.”
In addition to abortion rights, the Republican Party has taken unpopular positions on birth control and IVF. GOP senators refuse to codify birth control by block Conception Rights Act even if nine out of 10 Americans voters feel that some contraceptives such as birth control pills and condoms should be legal. As for IVF, Senate Republicans blocked legalization of the practice by voting against it IVF Rights Acteven like eighty six% Americans think it should be legal. The Heritage Fund hopes to regulate IVF, while the Southern Baptist Convention recently approved a measure oppose it.
When it was first reported that fish eggs will be ousted, in May 2022, a conservative media personality wrote on Politico, “Abortion may no longer be the burning issue it once was.” Another thing happened a few weeks later, after the decision was made public: “Polls show Americans don’t care much about that Dobbs—and will not base it on their votes.” Of course, the right to abortion is clear galvanized voters in the 2022 midterms—and again during the election 2023 external election. However a few days ago I noticed one GOP Pollster seemed to downplay the impact of abortion rights in 2024, writing, “At this point in the 2022 cycle, the Dobbs decision has not yet happened. A reminder of how fresh this is in voters’ minds in 2022 compared to how likely it is this year.”
Perhaps the loss of bodily autonomy isn’t such a big deal for Republicans, who seem determined to limit women’s rights in other ways, from restricting birth control to IVF. But voters seem motivated to keep the rights they have — and fight for those threatened by those rights. Borrowed words James Carvillefamous 1992 election sloganperhaps the 2024 voters’ choice can be summed up as “It’s autonomy, stupid.”
