This is a worthwhile thread to read that provides statistical analysis about the prevalence of abortions in the U.S. which, BTW, reached pre-Roe low in 2017.
I believe the statistics generally show that when Dems are in the executive branch abortion numbers decrease. When I see pro-lifers protesting at abortion clinics praying, I can't help but think how solution depraved they actually are.
That's because they have the logic backwards. They pray for changing a law when the law is not creating the aborted fetus. Instead, it's the societal conditions that are leading to the stark choice women are faced with.
Why can't pro-lifers actually see a bigger picture and actually do more to support life? Ultimately, "pro-lifers" support more death because they stand on a self-righteous canard that I believe they see as their "ticket to heaven" -- when in fact reducing the prevalence of abortions needs to be proactive upstream support that works to eliminate the desperate choice people are faced with.
Sexual education, of course, social support systems that allow people to move up the hierarchy of needs, and better control over the zero-sum thinking that governs these religions and institutional leaders who have ulterior motives.
Systems are failing all around us, and we continue to double-down on short-term thinking, so pretty soon we won't even be able to think at all.
I just returned from a trip that brought my family to Boston and DC. There is a reverence I feel for the spaces I visited, and now that I truly consider what happened on January 6, and the direction that Republicans and "Christians" want to go, it hearkens me to think of Afghanistan and when the Taliban destroyed the giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan. The cold civil war we are in is heating up. I see Trumpists and Republicans as the American Taliban.
And I am becoming more and more cynical about the constitution and the slave-holding elite white men who wrote it. I'm not convinced they wrote it in good faith because they kept an "out" in the verbiage to maintain minority rule, and now centuries later, we are run by a minority sect that is imposing their own regressive will on a majority population that disagrees with them.
That's broken.
The Senate, the filibuster, the Electoral College and weaponized gerrymandering are ripping this country apart both incrementally and in large fell swoops by repealing Roe and upholding Heller which is representative of Scalia's awful legacy.
Shit, when the 2nd amendment was written modern bullets didn't exist. It was musket balls, so we are taking that slippery grammar out of context.
So if we can overturn Roe, we can also overturn Heller?
Who needs stare decisis?