This week on OnTheIssuesPod with michelebgoodwin, we’re unpacking the historical events that led us to the Dobbs decision, and examining how the Supreme Court failed in its analysis and recounting of America’s history around abortion. Listen now:
Yeah, when you read the legislative histories debating passing these laws, they quote, Storer and DeLee, and all of these people, so I mean, it’s foundational unto the motivation behind it, and as well, you know, also motivated by sort of taking control of reproduction away from midwives, from healers, from women practitioners.
He was honored with statues, you know, statues in Central Park and other places, you know, lauded as the father of gynecology, and yet, I think, if we read, as I read, inhumanity inflicted upon these women, and so I think it says a lot about who gets to read and interpret history. So, Mary, we’re sort of leading that conversation then, thank you so much, Deborah, up to that point of Roe v. Wade, and Roe, on one hand, is an incredible new day. It is a 7 to 2 opinion. Five of those seven justices are Republican appointed. Justice Blackman, who writes the opinion in Roe, is put on a court by Richard Nixon. You got Prescott Bush, the father of George H.W. Bush, is the treasurer at Planned Parenthood, so Mary, what happened, like that’s the 1973 story.
For example, New Hampshire was one of the few states that didn’t have an exception for the life of a pregnant person, and when the state moved to put in that exception in the early 1960s, anti-abortion leaders rejected that, so there was already a kind of compromise refusing, initially, predominately White, predominantly middle-class, predominantly Catholic movement, but I think, you know, that lasted after Roe, as well, right, so this rejection of compromise and the elevation of what we would...
You know, Mary, one of the things that I think is important and level set of that, is that there’s a kind of rhetoric that this has always been a Republican position because most of the opposition that one sees right now is Republican, but that’s actually not true, right.
There was an effort at the time, a parallel effort to organize conservative White Evangelicals in the Sun Belt in particular, so across the south and southwest _____ [0:34:16.0]. Yeah, yeah, and there was also, you know, because people were actually moving to the Sun Belt, there was kind of a block that would be regionally important, right, so this was compelling not only to Reagan but to people in state legislatures and so on, who could imagine like a regional power block.
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