It's no coincidence that overturning Roe coincided with the news that the Taliban just ordered women to be covered from head to toe when they leave the house. This puts me in mind of People of Praise, a group to which the "subordinate role of women to men is a fundamental cultural premise."
Amy Coney Barrett is a fully fledged member of People of Praise and also an ardent Catholic. I see very little difference between the philosophies of both these religious cults towards women, and indeed of any group of male religious fundamentalists including the Taliban.
As an fyi Saudi Arabia's laws on abortion are better than those in many red states. Abortion in Saudi Arabia is legal in cases of risk to a woman's life, fetal impairment, or to protect a woman's physical and mental health.
It is heartbreaking that Ruth Bader Ginsberg did not resign early during Obama's second term. At her age and because of the state of her health, she should have. She played dice with her legacy and she lost. It is a travesty that she was replaced by Barrett.
The overturning of Roe represents turbocharged minority rule. Over sixty percent of Americans currently believe a woman should have the right of choice over what happens to her own body. Until we deal as a nation with the fundamental issue of minority representation in government at the federal level, we will never have a government which makes laws that represent the majority of us.
Once Roe is nullified Americans will have allowed a non-representative court with religious fundamentalists controlling it, to get rid of a woman's constitutional right to privacy and to control her own body. Additionally we also have a group of Senators who are right now trying to create a set of federal laws that will override state laws and make abortion illegal across the whole of the US. Basically this could happen because the US has a counter-majoritarian national government in place.
Right now, the Senate is split evenly in half, but the 50 Democratic senators represent 41.5 million more people than the 50 Republican senators. By 2040, if population trends continue, 70% of Americans will be represented by just 30 senators, and 30% of Americans by 70 senators.
In the immediate future I wonder what happens when blue states sue red states and they refuse to comply with each other's laws? Roe has opened these flood gates. Who will enforce these differing laws? If blue states refuse extradition of offenders, who will cross state borders to remove and incarcerate private citizens? Certainly not the FBI since they have no state jurisdiction once Roe ceases to be a federal law.
These are all questions I've recently been asking myself. The brilliant novel American Wars may give us some of the answers https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Omar-El-Akkad/dp/0451493583 , just as Orwell's book 1984 attempts to do so from the opposite side.
