is too great and it amounts to a tyranny. and what the governor is saying is that because he has a specific version of personhood that is a religious view, that is not shared by everybody else, that they have the right to force women to endure pregnancy and force women to give birth. this is what we re talking about. maybe we should be talking about the thirteenth amendment because what they re talking is overriding the physical, the personal autonomy of women. and, in fact, it s interesting he should bring up the history because the rate of abortion has dropped dramatically over the last 15 or 20 years. and if you really want to prevent abortion, you keep the legal framework that we actually have, in which abortions are becoming more and more infrequent. but what we re really talking about is an effort to right out of the constitution the fourteenth amendment and to write out of the constitution a sense that women are entitled to self-determination to physical
bodily autonomy. we don t force people off the street to become bone marrow donors simply because it would save an innocent life. we don t force people to undergo all sorts of procedures because it might be beneficial. nor, frankly, do we force people, apparently, to give up their guns or force people, according to these same people, to be vaccinated even though it would save lives. so this notion that they are supporting the right to life is, frankly it s about controlling women, it s about writing out of the constitution a fundamental right that exists. they re going to go on to contraception, they re going to go on to gay marriage, they re going to go on to a host of issues. this is a supreme court that is bent on and they won t stop with abortion. you know, mariana, senator susan collins of maine said she wants to oob oob figure out a way to codify roe versus wade.