# @smeharbinger on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2022-05-05T23:11:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Harbinger (@SMEHarbinger) — https://gondola.cc/SMEHarbinger

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I shouldn’t need to explain why overturning Roe v. Wade is bad.

We’ve all heard the same arguments over and over — criminalizing them doesn’t stop them, it makes them unsafe. A woman should have the right to do what she will with her body. What to do if a woman is raped? I’m not going to drill home these same ideas that my mother’s mother had to scream her whole life.

Obviously, revoking basic rights that women have to their bodies is horrible. But by taking away a woman's basic right that they fought for starting with the criminalization of it in 1880, we are collectively taking 50 steps back to 1973 when Jane Roe challenged Texas.

Texas — which seems to have a trend with stealing the rights of women — outlawed all abortions that take place six weeks after conception in September last year. A few other states followed suit, dancing around the federal laws — like Roe v. Wade and a more recent law, the Women’s Health Protection Act — that have been in place for years now.

But now with the highest court questioning the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade, it could unravel years of rights granted to oppressed peoples and minorities — not just within abortion rights.

IUDs and morning-after pills could be outlawed, by the standard that some Justices have been arguing. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the Constitution in no way supports the right to abortion. If we apply this philosophy to all of the laws that have been created after the Constitution, we could lose important legislation that has improved the lives of many.

Not to mention, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, it will expose economic disparities even more. Any well-off woman could travel to a liberal state or find some unsafe method to abort her pregnancy, but a woman without the money — or the will to risk her life — has to follow through with birthing a child they could never support.

If the Supreme Court rules to overturn Roe v. Wade, be conscientious of your voting on the state level. Primary elections are on Aug. 2. Vote wisely — it could cost your body.

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