What Are We Fighting For?
Today SCOTUS took away citizenship rights from half the country, and Clarence Thomas has hinted in his opinion that even more rights are up for deletion.
So, I ask, what are and WILL we fight for?
In a terrifying concurring opinion to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the case the court used as a pretext to overturn Roe, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that now that the court’s conservative goon squad has done away with the national right to an abortion, it should think about scrapping the rulings that protect contraception, same-sex marriage, and same-sex sexual activity. Arguing that all decisions that previously fell under “due process precedents”—a concept he claims is an “oxymoron” that “lack[s] any basis in the Constitution”—are bunk, Thomas writes: “For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.” Griswold was the landmark decision in which the court said that the Constitution protects the right of married couples to buy and use contraception. Lawrence, which struck down a Texas sodomy law, made same-sex sexual activity legal. Obergefell said same-sex couples have the legal right to marry.
Please to add protest songs
I’ll start with a classic women’s rights song from Leslie Gore from the 60s:
another one:
and: