Comments on: The immediate danger to abortion rights isn’t that Roe will be overturned

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[...] (I’ve drawn on some past posts of mine in writing this new post: here, here and here.) Here is an AP article reporting the Gonzales decision, and here is the text of the decision itself. (back) [...]

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:57:53 +0000

Framing this stuff is really hard, because people are so focused on Roe. It’s a good reminder that ideally, abortion rights would not be a judicial issue. As long as it stays in the hands of SCOTUS, we’ll be constantly fighting these battles, one step forward and two steps back.

The right wing plans long-term and I think we should too. What about a 10-year plan to get a constitutional amendement re: right to privacy on abortion and birth control…kinda like the ERA. A girl can dream, can’t she? Then Roe would be taken off the table, and when we talk about “facial challenges” it will mean pimples, not my reproductive fate.

By: then again, maybe not

then again, maybe not — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:00:25 +0000

Amp, good point! Roe is such an important and recognizable symbol for the right to choose, but it’s these other issues that have been stripping away a woman’s right to safe, legal and accessible abortion.

But then we end up back a few months ago talking about framing. How do we get people to understand the immediate danger when it’s “a little more complicated?”

By: feminist blogs

feminist blogs — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

frightening, and contains the most potential to destroy abortion rights in practice. In short, this is some scary, anti-freedom shit, buried on page 37 of a 39 page decision. (I’ve drawn on some past posts of mine in writing this new post: here, here and here.) Here is an AP article reporting the Gonzales decision, and here is the text of the decision itself. (back) posted 2:59 pm at Alas, a blog