The Supreme Court's Plan To Overturn Roe Would Turn Back Women's Economic Gains

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Decades of economic studies show that women saw educational and economic advances thanks to the legalization of abortion in 1973.

An interesting article on the Economic, Educational, and Employment gains women have made since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Overturning Roe will have severe impacts all over the country. Not to mention for the next 2 generations of women coming up.

Source:Huff Post

The Supreme Court’s expected reversal of Roe v. Wade and the abortion rights it provides threatens to roll back the economic and educational advances made by American women in the last 49 years.

Abortion rights have improved women’s ability to attain higher education. They’ve led to increased lifetime earnings. And they’ve given women more long-term financial stability.

The Supreme Court is well aware of these gains. A group of 154 economists and researchers highlighted them in a brief to the court as part of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Program case, which looks at abortion restrictions enacted in Mississippi. But the court apparently plans to overlook these gains ― and turn them back ― in a ruling anticipated in June that would end the constitutional right to an abortion.

The discussion around reproductive rights is often framed as part of a “culture war” between religious conservatives and secular liberals over nonmaterial concerns. A leaked draft majority opinion in the case, written by Justice Samuel Alito, largely focuses on a (dubious) history of abortion law in an attempt to show that legal abortion is not “deeply rooted” in the country’s “history and tradition” in his argument for overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

More at....[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roe-v-wade-overturn-women-economic-gains_n_627ebf85e4b003ed2961a539|

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1. The GOP wants women to be sex objects with no rights, bred as cattle. The GOP is a regressive,

repressive and sick authoritarian depressing bunch. I really think a fair number of republicans have some serious mental issues.

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2. The women who vote Republican are part of the PROBLEM...

Women who vote Republican are sentencing their daughters and granddaughters to a life of servitude. They themselves as well.

The difference between Republican and Democrat women is we will NOT be the ones wearing the red Burka

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3. I'm pretty much at a loss to understand republican women who vote in this type of crap. n/t