The Christian 'Taliban' wants to impose their religion on the rest of us
After 50 years, a woman's right to an abortion, and a woman's right to control her own body, are now a matter of states' rights. We will now have a patchwork of states where a woman can get medical help in her reproductive choices. This decision of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade will particularly affect poor women, especially poor women of color, in red states, many of which have horrible records of helping the poor and providing the poor with maternal care.
The Taliban in Afghanistan have imposed a rigid interpretation of Islam on the country, which especially targets women and girls. Our own Christian "Taliban" is also trying to impose their religion — fueled largely by a literal interpretation of the Bible — on the American people, which in the case of abortion affects women far more than men. It was the men on the Supreme Court who overturned Roe, with the help of one woman.
There is a parallel between those who interpret the Bible literally and those who interpret the Constitution literally, called originalists. They do not see these old documents written by men — living in a different time and in a different culture — as living, breathing documents that need interpretation for each generation. The Constitution was written by only white men, many of them slave owners. The Bible was also written by just men.
Clarence Thomas now wants the court to revisit the Supreme Court's decisions that permit the use of birth control and makes gay marriage legal. Mike Pence now wants an abortion ban in the whole country to be passed by Congress and signed by the president (he hopes it will be him!).
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