A Religious Freedom Defense Of Reproductive Rights
The Supreme Court seems a little bit shy about this perspective. I wonder why.
On December 1st, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The behavior of the justices at oral argument inspired a lot of panic about reproductive rights in the news. Most of the articles on the topic I’ve seen raise the question of whether or not the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade. Few of them tell us the true goals of the 6 very conservative members of the court.
I’ve read up on the arguments and most of them center on whether or not ending the life of a fetus is a right protected by the Constitution. But one thing that I find missing is the pursuit of happiness. Conservatives are all over life, but they really come up short on the pursuit of happiness. Maybe that’s my inner Puritan talking. Reproductive rights fall squarely under the pursuit of happiness.
A mother who is forced to carry a baby to term is not going to be happy about her predicament. She will not be happy that the state has the power to tell her what to do with her body in just the same way that vaccine resisters are defying vaccine mandates. This is a bitter irony of an American faction that claims the higher ground when the subject is…
