Same-sex marriage, oral sex, sodomy and even contraceptives could soon no longer be a personal right
It was going to be a big party, but it turned into a big protest. The Supreme Court ruling, which Friday overturned case law protecting the right to abortion in the United States, was not limited to that. The court’s ultra-conservative majority took the opportunity to set the house on fire as they slammed the door to the personal liberties Roe had relied on against Wade.
And just in case anyone had any doubts, Judge Clarence Thomas made it very clear that, with the precedent just set, “we must reconsider all precedents of due process in future cases, including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell,” he wrote. The first protects access to contraceptives; the second, the right to have private sex, a necessary antidote to the 16 states that prohibit oral sex or sodomy; and the third, same-sex marriages. Since Friday, “any material precedent to the decisions made in the due process” of privacy is “demonstrably wrong,” so we have a duty to correct the mistake made,” insisted Thomas, who left in his litany of the only precedent it would affect that of interracial marriages.
Unsurprisingly, the rain of paper and confetti that descended on New York’s Seventh Avenue, and many other cities in the country on Sunday, had the most political bias in its history this year. “My body, my decision!” women, men, transsexuals and the whole group shouted gender neutral, binary and other variants. Cynthia Nixon, the Sex And The City attorney-actress, who failed her bid for mayor, screamed at the parade in New York’s West Village. And in San Francisco, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi waved from a red convertible, Obama’s slogan “Don’t be angry, vote!” turning around. The one for the Democrats this year is “Get Angry and Vote.”
Due to the pandemic, this parade could no longer be held since 2019. Many burned their leathers and whips in the closet, eager to take to the streets to celebrate in public what their private lives encompass. How long has the question been in the air. “When do I have to go back in the closet?” asked Peter Johansson, a tortured homosexual who never thought he would have to fight again for the rights he thought he had won.
Making common cause with women was not solidarity, all rights demonized by the extreme Christian right are in the same boat. One that sinks. Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed creating safe havens on federal land within the nine states that will severely restrict or even ban abortion rights from Friday. Abortion clinics could be built there for women who need them to safely access, because there is already a precedent: Before Roe v. Wade expanded that right at the federal level, military women who became pregnant were required to have an abortion or the armed forces to leave . And they did it within those federal bases, immune to state laws.
The decision to leave the regulation of abortion rights to each state as a blank canvas on which anyone can write whatever they want has created a cacophony of laws, many of which are already being challenged in courts, such as Louisiana’s. and Florida. Another 16 states have rushed to pass legislation guaranteeing abortion, and even some progressive cities, like Austin, have banned their own prosecutors and police from using city funds to prosecute women who have abortions or those who help them.
To end the civil rights conquest setback that the ultra-conservative majority of the court, where the judges hold positions of life, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez proposes a “impeachment” of those judges appointed by Trump who pledged under oath to the Senate that they would not overthrow Roe v. Wade. Another solution is to expand the court to weaken conservative power, but both would require the Democratic Party to gain an absolute majority in the chambers by November. The “Get Angry and Vote” is so necessary for those protesting that even Donald Trump fears the verdict would hurt his party’s chances in the polls, New York Times sources said. Trump is counting on that majority to guarantee his electoral road back to the White House, where he pledges to get the job he started.
Source: La Verdad
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