“…Roe was the crucial win that saw not only this cascade of laws but also a decisive cultural shift toward treating women as sentient beings. The message was clear: Being able to control one’s fertility leads to being able to control other aspects of one’s life.
That post-Roe optimism was infectious. Mom told Playboy of her delight at the end she saw coming to women’s “being nursemaids to their men; taking what is dished out to them; being chief cook and bottle washer, baby sitter, nanny; entertaining the husband’s guests, the whole servant-master relationship.””
…little of which pertains to poor women who will pay the steepest price for lack of access to reproductive—and other—healthcare.
Molly Jong-Fast
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/erica-jong-sixties-roe-abortion/661345/
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