This ruling isn’t just about abortion, it’s about voting. Specifically it’s about taking away the right to vote from women who aren’t voting Trumpublican.

Two out of three White women voted for Trump in 20'. For a lot of them this ruling is what they voted for, they see this as a win.

Women are not united on this issue.

I know it sounds insane but I was there in the 70’s when the anti-ERA, anti-feminism backlash started. Lots and lots of women, particularly White Evangelical women do not support the right to abortion.

They believe women shouldn’t be having sex outside of marriage. FULL STOP, NO EXCEPTIONS. If you do, and get pregnant, you should be punished for being a slut.

It’s the same weird thinking you sometimes hear from women who support mandatory burka wearing, or female genital mutilation. The idea that women have to suppress their sexuality because men cannot control themselves.

They argue that this suppression liberates them instead of enslaving them. In the US they vote for it, in big numbers.

This ruling probably isn’t going to change that very much. The majority of White women are probably still going to vote Trumpublican in 22' and 24'.

This isn’t just a story about “evil men” doing this to helpless women.

Women make up 52% of the US population. If they were united on this issue, abortion would be a constitutional right.

This goes back to the fact that 2 out of 3 White Americans votes Trumpublican (most “Independents” vote Trumpublican, they just don’t want to admit it socially). For a lot of them this is a racial issue.

The part they don’t say loudly is that this is about White babies.

Think about this, in the last year of the Trump Administration clusterfuck it came out that women were being sterilized in ICE detention centers. Without their knowledge or consent.

Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody

ICE, A Whistleblower And Forced Sterilization

No one was prosecuted for this crime against humanity. In the alt-Right media space there was actually applause for this crime.

“How else are you going to keep them from coming back and dropping an anchor baby?”

Was the common viewpoint. The more nuanced Trumpublican argument was;

“It’s their own fault. They broke the law coming here and we have the right to preserve our sovereign integrity. If you are going to give citizenship to every baby born on US soil then you have to disincentivize all these brown women from coming here to drop a baby and game the system.”

They don’t care about saving babies. They care about there being more White babies and they care about taking away the vote from women who vote Democratic.

What this does, is give them a way of criminalizing Black, Latina, and Liberal White women.

Just like criminalizing Black men has resulted in 20% of them being stripped of the right to vote. This will give them massive opportunities to criminalize women.

Taking away their right to vote.

I go into this in more detail in my piece

My Take - 03 : With the Reversal of Roe, Trumpublican America’s endgame becomes clear.