We now have all the exposure of life pre-Roe but
none of the paternalistic protections: Women are now seen as fully
autonomous moral agents, which means that they will be legally on the
hook for endangering the babies they carry, but they will also be
punishable as autonomous adults. Women thus remain children for purposes
of pregnancy and giving birth, but have become adults for purposes of
criminal liability.
It’s easy to lull yourself into the false belief that a reversion to life pre-Roe would
simply mean that the reproductive freedom movement needs to redouble
efforts to fund and transport persons needing abortions to more
hospitable states. That would be awful, we think, but maybe not that catastrophically bad. But as Goldberg warned in 2019, “the
past can prove inadequate to understanding the depredations of the
present.” We are not in fact moving “backward” to life before Roe. We
are more likely moving sideways into a fundamentalist religious regime
in which life pre-Roe will come to look like a vastly less
terrifying option than a world in which women are subject to revanchist
religious claims—claims with no support whatsoever in the
Constitution—about the lives they may carry, the unknown crimes they may
commit, and the choices they are no longer permitted to make.
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Can people learn the meaning of Parasite? A parasite is a creature which takes and does not give anything back. The relationship we have with babies is symbiosis. We take care of them until they grow up and they run the world when we get old and ensure that the world does not just collapse.
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