Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022 | 2 a.m.
Did you see the interview of Nicole Walker by Lawrence O’Donnell? If you didn’t, you should have. She talked about having been raped and impregnated by her babysitter when she was 11 years old, and of her abortion, as a result. She was not talking simply about exception cases at that young age, she was talking about being a woman, and having her rights to her own body, her own future being taken away from her if she had been forced to give birth.
Those who pushed for making abortion illegal could do so in a rather abstract way. They didn’t have to consider the rights of a woman. Under the provisions of Roe v. Wade, their proposed laws were not going to be in effect anyway. Now, that is no longer true.
Before, all they actually considered was the life of an unborn baby. Now, they have to face the fate of that young raped girl, that fate of the young girl being forced into motherhood whether she was prepared or not. They have to face the fate of the baby involved, the baby with defects or disabilities.
Just how do you write a piece of law that is going to make abortion illegal and yet make such a law really justice for all involved? I suspect that the real answer to this question is that forcing birth on a woman not only replaces the doctor and the pregnant woman with the state, it also removes God from the equation also.
