Opinion | The Smothering of Abortion Rights Reveals Something Else About Republicans
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Both the federal and the Arizona Supreme Courts have conjured a past that rejects the right to bodily autonomy.

The states’ rights case for determining abortion access — let the people decide — falters on the fact that in many states, the people cannot shape their legislature to their liking. Packed and split into districts designed to preserve Republican control, voters cannot actually dislodge anti-abortion Republican lawmakers. A pro-choice majority may exist, but only as a shadow: present but without substance in government.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Both the federal courts and the Arizona Supreme Court have conjured a past that smothers the right to bodily autonomy. Anti-abortion activists are also trying to conjure a past, in the form of the long-dormant Comstock Act, that gives government the power to regulate the sexual lives of its citizens. As Moira Donegan notes in a column for The Guardian, “Comstock has come to stand in, in the right-wing imagination, for a virtuous, hierarchically ordered past that can be restored in a sexually repressive and tyrannically misogynistic future.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that the seal of the Comstock’s New York Society for the Suppression of Vice gleefully features a person being thrown into a dungeon, and a book burning.