All right, Republicans. You’re on the brink of reversing Roe v. Wade and wrapping up a nearly 50 year crusade. Without getting into the tactics used (the bombing of health care clinics, targeting practitioners, bullshit political maneuvers at the US Senate level, etc.)… congratulations. It seems you’ve finally caught the car.
Now what?
If the rights of one human being (if that is what we are now calling an unborn fetus) are given unquestioned priority over the rights of another human being, in this case let’s focus on the woman carrying that fetus, how are you going to square that with the championing of your “Stand Your Ground” laws?
For instance, here is the text of Idaho’s Stand Your Ground law that provides a legal justification for the use of deadly force to protect both oneself or someone else from harm: A person may stand his ground and defend himself or another person by the use of all force and means which would appear to be necessary to a reasonable person in a similar situation and with similar knowledge without the benefit of hindsight.
A hypothetical: if a woman has a pregnancy that threatens her health, wealth, property or well-being, doesn’t she have the right to use all force and means necessary to protect herself?
Will Idaho have to amend this particular law to read that everyone except pregnant women has the right to stand their ground?
The way I read the proposed reversal of Roe v. Wade, coupled with the desire of right-wing America to grant full personhood to the unborn fetus, and the various Stand Your Ground laws around the nation, it leaves me scratching my head. They can’t all be in effect at the same time.
Maybe, as with many things, this just comes down to marketing. We progressives, and others silly enough to think that women can make these important decisions on their own, need to stop protesting and marching for abortion rights. Instead, we need to start protesting and marching for a federal Stand Your Ground law.
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