“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. The entire draft opinion can be read below:
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I take exception to much of what you claim.
I successfully practiced vigilance (for 16 years!) to prevent unwanted pregnancy, and when financially stable and married, we chose a day of ovulation to have unprotected sex, and within 10 days, I had clear indication of impregnation both times, even before my next period was due.
~ The female body makes very clear changes that are completely obvious. Any woman who is paying attention can tell something has happened. Those who say they didn't know are in willful denial or sadly ignorant of their own body.
~ You say, "These aren't teenage whores running around getting knocked up". Some are. Some are not. And you say, "...there is a very very small minority of women who use abortion as a form of B.C. or have more than 1 in their entire life."
Let's look at the statistics:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm
"Among the 44 areas that reported the number of previous induced abortions for 2019, the majority of women (58.2%) had previously had no abortions, 23.8% had previously had one abortion, 10.5% had previously had two abortions, and 7.5% had previously had three or more abortions."
And this:
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-and-abortion-northern-america
In 2015–2019, there were a total of 5,660,000 pregnancies annually.
Of these, 2,590,000 pregnancies were unintended.
And this:
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states
Eighteen percent of pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) in 2017 were reported to have ended in abortion.
Approximately 862,320 abortions were reported to be performed in 2017, vs. 926,190 abortions that were reported in 2014.
Note: Abortion reporting is voluntary. Many facilities and states do not report their abortion demographics; thus this number is lower than the actual total and is only reflective of the reported abortions performed in the US.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm
Among the 42 areas that reported by marital status for 2019,
14.5% of women who obtained an abortion were married, and
85.5% were unmarried.
The abortion ratio was:
46 abortions per 1,000 live births for married women and;
394 abortions per 1,000 live births for unmarried women.
You waited 16 years because you wanted to, that was your choice. Amazing how you get a choice to do one thing but others shouldn’t get a choice to do the opposite.
It’s funny how we can claim we are fighting tyranny that is reducing bodily autonomy and limiting personal choice while in the same breath eliminating bodily autonomy and criticizing/limiting the choices of others. Freedom is a two way street.
If you can’t see the irony then you’re just as brainwashed as most leftists.
I think it is you that is missing the point. Nowhere did MY CHOICES kill an innocent person. YOUR CHOICES to have unprotected sex and then an abortion for convenience, did. "Limiting the choices of others" is solely limiting them from committing infanticide, not preventing them from having sex or using the birth control of their choice. I also would like to limit your 'choice' to kill your husband, boyfriend, neighbor or dog. Those 'choices' would be objected to.
Bodily autonomy ends when it harms another. If you can't see the irony in your statements, well then you are beyond my reasoning.