National Your Law Center
Even the National Women’s Law Center refuses to say it.
Interesting trick, being a national women’s law center while refusing to mention women.
Blah blah blah do this do that but above all DON’T MENTION WOMEN.
No sign of women in that one – you, our, we, our, our, we, we, you – but no women.
People people. Sssshhhhh don’t mention women.
One tiny stumble – they retweeted Rebecca Traister’s quotation from the dissent.
Just an aberration, that one.
You, you, you. But who are you?
Come to think of it, ‘you’ could be referring to Paddy Riley’s horse (possibly a mare) or the giraffe in the local zoo (of unspecified sex, but a female; London to a brick.) They would surely also have a right but not just to abortion. “This decision is about more than abortion. It’s about who has power over you, who has the authority to make decisions for you, and who is going to control how your future turns out.” That statement surely would have to include them. Their right to be chucked a bale of hay every so often; stuff like that.
And that still leaves room for women to be included somewhere in the scheme of things. So I say look on the bright side. Could be worse. Surely.
Well, possibly anyway.
The dissent by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan is actually quite clear throughout about this being a women’s issue being decided based on the worldview of 19th century men. For example:
I’ve transcribed some more of the dissent here.
Oh that’s beautifully clear. Thank you.
Thanks for doing that, Ezra.