The Dobbs decision did not outlaw abortion. It threw the issue of abortion back to the states. Many states have anti-abortion laws on the books, so they simply snapped back into place. Other states are feverishly working on truly draconian laws that are perhaps even more restrictive than the laws that existed before Roe.
Other laws are being highlighted now that the extraordinary misogyny of forced birth is being resurrected. Take this law in Missouri. How the hell is this a thing in 2022?
I was born after the Civil Rights Act of '64 and the Voting Rights Act of '65, but the legacy of Jim Crow still hovered around the early years of my life. What was still in place were laws in many places that forbade a woman from having her own checking account without her husband's approval. Divorce in many places was still a challenge.
In my youth, most of these measures faded away, but it's pretty clear that - having taken us back before 1973 on abortion - the Christianist Right wants to resurrect the restrictions on women that extend beyond abortion.
I want to think that the GOP support for awful laws will cost them dearly in November, but gas is expensive, so whatever, I guess we're Gilead now.
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