The abortion debate is going to be fought out on the grounds of healthcare. Not abstractions like when life begins or who gets to decide who is pregnant or must remain so: on the simple, concrete matter of healthcare.i think this is the scenario where Republicans just stop winning races https://t.co/UUjRlY8isu
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 17, 2022
I know women who use birth control pills for healthcare, not for promiscuity (which is always the sotto voce grounds for despising the Pill among those who do so most strongly). Abortion, likewise, is becoming a literal matter of life and death for women. My daughter has a condition (none of your business, frankly) that makes pregnancy a risky business for her. She's just moved back to Texas, but I would pay for her to live in another state for 12 months if she got pregnant, just so the doctors wouldn't be scared to give her the treatment she needs to save her life, if it came to that.
This is where the debate will be made: who lives, and who dies. And the "who" in that sentence won't be a conceptual topic like a fetus (alive? semi-alive? fully autonomous but laying a superior claim to a woman's body because...well, it's just a woman's body, isn't it? Not like it's important, amirite?) or like "choice" as if it were a cosmetic decision about hair color or nail polish (it never is, but the opponents worked mightily to make it that).
Healthcare. It's going to come down to healthcare. For your wife; your daughter; your niece; your girlfriend(s). Your sister; your aunt; your family member. Do we deny them healthcare because they are female? Is that who we are?
That's going to be the issue. And it's going to win.
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