Jane Roe dies at the age of 69

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The child she was trying to abort ended up being 2 1/2 years old by the time the Supreme Court ruling occurred

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it was allowed to live?

the decision wasn't retroactive?

The truth is that behind closed doors, even liberal judicial scholars and lawyers admit it is one of the most egregious court decisions of all time.

I am ultimately for and against abortion at the same time

I am for it because I ultimately believe it does more good than harm for society as a whole. Most aborted babies come from parents who won't do a good job raising a productive member of society

But I hate how it's become a litmus test issue and a feminist issue, and a feminist rallying cry. How if you oppose abortion you are an evil woman hating misogynist shitlord. I hate the politics and activism behind it all

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The child she was trying to abort ended up being 2 1/2 years old by the time the Supreme Court ruling occurred. Nothing is known about the child since it was given up for adoption.

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The Crowned Jewel of Irony.

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goldennugget

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I've been watching The Man in the High Castle and googling some stuff from the show that piqued my interest.

A quick search for "Lebensborn" led me to info about the US' very pro-eugenics attitude 100 years ago. It is pretty wild how accepted the practice was among politicians, college professors, business leaders, scientists, and the general public.

You seem like the type of guy who probably has done some research on the topic, if so, maybe you can start a thread on it next week.

Eugenics is a touchy subject

"At the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

So...
Why does the ’70s-era image of the white, middle-class teenager as the typical abortion patient persist?

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But one thing that hasn’t changed since 1973 is the public image of what a typical abortion patient looks like: A middle-class, white high-school or college student with no children whose bright future could be derailed by motherhood.

And yet, Women under 20 now account for only 18 percent of abortions, around 85 percent of those seeking abortion aren’t married, 42 percent of women having abortions live under the poverty line, and another 27 percent have incomes within 200 percent of the poverty line.

Taken together, 69 percent of women who have abortions are unmarried and living in poverty with little education.

While the discourse around abortion still focuses on scared white teenagers, the reality is that the typical abortion patient these days is a twenty-something single mother of color.

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It's no secret the birth control movement and abortion revolution was rooted in eugenics philosophy that was popular a few decades earlier.

So Roe was a pawn for quite a people who didn't want poor people to procreate and were also probably quite racist.

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I'm not in favor of abortion being illegal

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agree

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want the Roe decision to be left alone

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disagree - things like this should be settled by congress, not by searching for penumbra/umbra projections from imagined meanings in the constitution that have absolutely no supporting interpretation of the words of the constitution.

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but how it happened and how it came to be and how the ruling justices decided it was an atrocity.

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Which is why it should be reversed. Things like this just give impetus for more atrociously decided cases. We have suffered a multitude of rediculous cases that emanated from that penumbra.

I wonder if the child she put up for adoption ever sought out his or her birth mother and discovered that they were the unwanted pregnancy at the heart of Roe v Wade??