One of the most consistent and adamant claims of the anti-abortion movement is that opponents of reproductive rights care deeply about women’s health.
To get a better sense of what anti-abortion activists really think of women’s health, read their briefs. Indeed, even after winning the reversal of, conservative crusaders continue to trumpet their supposed efforts to support women and women’s health. Of course, the devastating health impacts of the abortion bans that have proliferated around the country after the fall ofhave dramatically undermined this claim.
Yet to understand what the Alliance and its comrades really think of women, look no further than the statute they repeatedly invoke in their Supreme Court litigation: the Comstock Act. That lawthe mailing of “obscene, lewd, or lascivious materials,” like pornography, or “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.
It may seem ironic that a group that dubs itself “the National Right to Life” and purports to care about women’s health is arguing against what may very well be lifesaving—or at a minimum, quality-of-life-preserving—medical care for women. But caring about “life” has always been a lie, just like caring about “health.” The conservative groups’ briefs in the EMTALA and mifepristone cases lay that
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