Body autonomy is a human right.

🚨 I've been struggling to express how I feel about the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade. To be honest, I am angry. However, the part that sickens me is that I am not disappointed, as far-right ideologies have only been getting more extreme over the years. We now live in a world where bigots somehow have the right to impose their will on women's bodies.

🚨 If you're pro-life, I beg you, please do your research. At the end of the day, this case is about free will and bodily autonomy and will only affect the middle and lower class. Let's be honest; people with money will have access and privacy even in states where abortion is illegal.

🚨 Rulings like this can have a lasting effect on past and future cases. Hiding this judgment under the guise of "state's rights" makes this decision even more terrifying. If SCOTUS can overturn a ruling monumental to women's rights, what's next? Interracial marriage? LGBTQIA+ rights? The right to use contraceptives? A woman's right to vote? Roe V. Wade is only the beginning, folks. Shit's bout to get much worse.

“Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes.” - Daniel H. Pink

🚨 Below I've included part of a summary of Roe v. Wade's (1973) conclusion from Oyez.org (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-18). I used this text for the graphic below:

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects against state action the right to privacy, and a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion falls within that right to privacy. A state law that broadly prohibits abortion without respect to the stage of pregnancy or other interests violates that right. Although the state has legitimate interests in protecting the health of pregnant women and the “potentiality of human life,” the relative weight of each of these interests varies over the course of pregnancy, and the law must account for this variability.