What Overturning Roe Actually Means
As of yesterday, a pregnant 11-year-old girl in Arkansas who was raped by her father, whose fetus has no chance of being born alive, could find herself in prison if she receives an abortion. The doctor who performed the operation could receive an even longer sentence.
Now, perhaps from your vantage point in Vermont or Oregon, you might say, “Well, that’s just one more good reason not to live in (or go anywhere near) Arkansas.” I can’t say the thought didn’t cross my own mind.
Yet I think we need to be more high-minded. It’s painful to live in a country that permits this level of cruel stupidity.
Until there is a federal law banning abortion, California and the other states that are home to the vast majority of the country’s population, wealth, productivity, and academic achievement will be forming pathways for women in repressive states to receive abortions.
Until the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on guns, abortion, and Miranda rights, any of us could have been forgiven for believing that the judiciary had no political bias. All that’s out the window now.
A reader asks, “Is this (Canada) an option?”
The “stench” associated with the overturning of Roe v. Wade is considerable, most notably because four Supreme Court justices lied on this subject during the senate confirmation hearings.
As time passes and the noose tightens around the necks of those who attempted the coup, we’re continuing to learn a great about the country we live in.
The ban on abortion in a large and growing number of states, driven as it is by far-right-wing Republicans, may work politically in the most backward and ignorant regions of the country. But how is this going to fly for the GOP on a national level? 
During the darkest days of U.S. policing that followed the murder of dozens of unarmed black men over the past few years, I used to ruminate on how sorry I felt for the hundreds of thousands of thoroughly decent law enforcement personnel who are now suddenly regarded as if they themselves knelt on George Floyd’s neck. 
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for the disbarment of all lawyers who participated in the coup attempt. Sounds good to me, and everyone else who cares about justice and rule of law.
