Roe v. Wade

After finally giving women the right to control their own bodies in Roe v. Wade, that right is not going to be taken away.  I, and millions of others, will see to that.  

So, what do the right-wingnuts do instead?  Try to place restriction after restriction on that right, making women jump through all sorts of hoops and run all types of gauntlets to exercise that basic right of deciding whether or not to have a baby.  We have to be vigilant in keeping the crazies from putting too many onerous hurdles in women's paths.  They've already gone too far.  They will have to be slapped down again.  And again.  And again.

Texas Governor, the most-ignorant Rick Perry, is trying to tie the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade to the 40 years the Israelis wandered in the desert (in the *cough* Bible), and the 40 days and 40 nights that Noah had to ride out the great Biblical flood.  Get it?  40, 40, 40?  Get it?  (sigh)

This would be a good place to start to roll back the continual assaults on the rights of women: replacing the Bible-thumping, most-ignorant, pandering, egomaniacal current occupant of the Governor's mansion in Texas with someone that has an actual belief in science.

It IS possible.

Texas shall rise again.  In a good way.

Roe v. Wade issued

January 22

“This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Specific and direct harm medically diagnosable even in early pregnancy may be involved. Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care. There is also the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma of unwed motherhood may be involved. All these are factors the woman and her responsible physician necessarily will consider in consultation.”

—Justice Blackmun, for the majority, Roe v. Wade