By Naomi Serviss / New York City
The Supreme Court did WHAT to Roe v. Wade?
Who are these antediluvians?
What is wrong with those five, uber-conservative Supreme Court justices?
How did those right-wing strict constructionists have the gonads to rule over women (and girls’) right to legal abortion?
The breaking news enraged me hard.
“What the actual fuck?” I said to my computer monitor. A wave of nausea beached me, dousing
my usual good mood.
We all know whose fault it is.
He loaded the bench by confirming three far-right-leaning justices.
America has lost its mind and morphed into Bizarro World.
This historical (for the wrong reasons) decision is upending lives from sea to shining sea.
Are you:
An expectant incest victim?
An eleven-year-old carrying a rapist’s seed?
No abortion for you!
As soon as Roe v. Wade was flipped on its head, the dominoes started falling. A number of states automatically outlawed abortion. Eleven states now ban or severely limit abortion; 11 others have laws not yet in effect that will do the same.
The termination of federal protection–after nearly 50 years–will affect millions of American women and girls desperate for a legal abortion.
An unapologetic, black-robed SWAT-team destroyed 50 years of progressive rights in a heartbeat.
They were no doubt PO’d by having their draft opinion leaked.
Vengeance was theirs.
Gallup poll numbers revealed that 55 percent of American consider themselves pro-choice.
Fifty years back, 1973’s Roe v. Wade was decided by a 7-2 vote. The tide had turned.
A more intelligent time on the court.
This current erosion of legal abortion rights did not spring fully grown, like Athena from Zeus’s head.
A religious movement (among other Republican proselytizers) steered the right-wingnuts into Camp Crazytown.
Took 50 years for their payoff.
Minions are still chugging the cult-y Kool-Aid.
Justices of our once-venerable Supreme Court have rejected what’s been constitutional for almost 50 years.
“What ridiculous ban will the justices enforce next, birth control?” I asked myself facetiously.
Good guess.
Oh, and same-sex marriage may be just a dream some of us had.
Friends were a mess this morning, texting disbelief and boiling anger.
Emotionally shaken, a little edgy, with an anxiety attack on deck.
We talked one another down. And said our goodbyes feeling hopeful.
I’m grateful to live in a state where women’s legal abortion rights are a given.
And I’m weary of witnessing history repeat itself, time after time.
I’m holding tight to my anger.
Naomi Serviss is a New York-based award-winning journalist whose work has been published in The New York Times, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Highroads (AAA magazine), in-flight publications, spa and travel magazines and websites, including BroadwayWorld.com