Opinion: Ruth Bader Ginsburg protected your abortion rights. Be afraid now that she's gone (via latimesopinion)
noted the extraordinary safety record of abortions and the lack of similar requirements for far more dangerous procedures. She called out the Texas law for the sham it was, writing, “it is beyond rational belief that HB 2 could genuinely protect the health of women, and certain that the law ‘would simply make it more difficult for them to obtain abortions.’”
“Even in the last 13 years, Justice Ginsburg had to lay out again and again how pregnancy discrimination is sex discrimination,” said Nancy Northup, chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights in a statement Friday night. The power that Ginsburg wielded on the Supreme Court to make women’s rights a legal reality — and the way she did it in a straightforward, steely way without bloviating — turned her into an 87-year-old age-defying cultural icon for women and girls, including little ones who donned her signature frilly white collar and robe and glasses as a Halloween costume. Probably some of that mystique came from the contrast between her diminutive stature as a woman and her stance as a judicial warrior.
Her dying wish was not to be replaced until a new president is installed. There are so many aspects of that wish I hope come to pass for Ginsburg and the rest of us. It’s not just that her death leaves the court with only three stalwart supporters of abortion rights, it’s that it leaves the possibility that her seat will be filled by an abortion opponent who will disregard the Supreme Court’s three landmark rulings on abortion rights and search for ways to dismantle the bedrock ruling of Roe vs. Wade, which would rob women of what the court has established as a constitutional right to a safe and legal abortion.
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