{"id":258317,"date":"2021-12-06T18:48:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258317"},"modified":"2021-12-07T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:20:45","slug":"3-outlandish-reactions-possibly-overturning-roe-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/3-outlandish-reactions-possibly-overturning-roe-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"3 outlandish reactions to the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the wake of the Supreme Court arguments for\u00a0Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> on December 1, pro-abortion activists have come out swinging with a number of outlandish claims of what might happen should the Supreme Court make the decision to overturn Roe v Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here are three of their claims \u2014 and why they’re nothing but ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Claim #1: Once abortion is overturned, women will lose their autonomy<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a recent Washington Post op-ed<\/a>, Alexandra Petri ponders the loss of her autonomy that she feels is sure to come if Roe is overturned. Writing in the third person, Petri says, “But when the court\u2019s clock struck, her run would in all likelihood begin to end. She would stop being a person with autonomy over her own body that the law was bound to respect. She would go back to being a vessel that might potentially contain a person, a vessel whose rights ended once that possibility was considered.”<\/p>\n

An end to legalized abortion would not take away a mother’s autonomy or personhood as this hyperbolic comment claims; it would simply stop her from ending the separate and distinct life of her child, who is currently not<\/em> treated as a person with rights.<\/p>\n

Abortion supporters often make the claim that pro-lifers pass the laws that they do because they want to control women’s bodies. But the fight against abortion isn’t a fight against women; it’s simply a fight for preborn human beings’ right to life. No one in society today would approve of a stressed-out mother killing her toddler because she wants more freedom in her life. The pro-life movement simply takes that sentiment and applies it consistently to children who reside in the womb and who are just as human.<\/p>\n