The U.S. Supreme Court is on the cusp of striking down Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that guaranteed federal protections of abortion rights, and my mind is flooded with thoughts of how this happened and what it means.
To be clear, I am not in favor of abortion, but I am also against tying my political decisions to a single issue that does not personally affect me. I am a man. I will never have an abortion, and I will never know the emotional turmoil that a woman experiences when terminating a pregnancy.
That’s why my view of the draft majority opinion that was written by Justice Samuel Alito and leaked to Politico this week is about much more than abortion. It is about the consequences of elections, men exerting control over women, and the evil that has been carried out in America in the name of a seemingly innocuous phrase: state’s rights.
