Published Mon, June 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM EDT
In 1973, this Court struck down an Act of the Texas Legislature that had been in effect since 1857, thereby rendering unconstitutional abortion statutes in dozens of States. As some of my colleagues on the Court, past and present, ably demonstrated, that decision was grievously wrong. Abortion is a unique act, in which a woman's exercise of control over her own body ends, depending on one's view, human life or potential human life. Nothing in our Federal Constitution deprives the people of this country of the right to determine whether the consequences of abortion to the fetus and to society outweigh the burden of an unwanted pregnancy on the mother. Although a State may permit abortion, nothing in the Constitution dictates that a State must do so."
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, (2000)
She sat me down, and dug my frown and began to run it down/ 'You remember my boyfriend Sid, that fly kid who I love/ Well our love was often a verb and spontaneity has brought a third/ But due to our youth an economic state, we wish to terminate/ About this we don't feel great, but baby, that's how it is..."
- "La Femme Fétal" by Digable Planets
What is really what if I can't even get comfortable because the Supreme Court is, like, all in my uterus?"
- Ladybug Mecca ("Examination Of What")