The supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark court case that resulted in the consitutional right for abortions for over 50 years, and citizens weigh in following an executive order protecting those rights signed by President Joe Biden.
On June 24, 2022, the supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade, a case where that ruled that abortions were a woman’s consitutional right under the 14th amendment’s right to privacy. This resulted after a young Texas woman under the name of Jane Roe woman sought an abortion in 1969 due to having a low income, but was blocked by Dallas district attorney Henry Wade.
By June 1970, while a Texas court ruled it illigal to ban abortions due to the previously mentioned constitutional protection under the 14th amendment, Wade still actively threatened to prosecute doctors that performed abortions. Within three years, the case was brought to the supreme court and on Jan. 22, 1973, the supreme court nationally legalized abortion as a result of the supreme court’s 7-2 decision.
The supreme court, however, overturned the results of the somewhat 50 year-old case that protected abortion rights for all women in the United States. From a decision that shocked all that watched, perspectives and opinions alike have poured in from all walks of life.
One of those lives is 34 year-old PhD student Deadra Willis, who shared she was pro choice.
“ I feel like it’s the (litteral) choice of a woman if you’re using her body to do something,” she said.
Willis shared that she felt the overturn was a step backwards for the United States, but also deemed it irrelevant as well.
“It’s like, you can still get abortions but there’s all these [spcifics you have to fufill] and it’s up to each state. I find the way they did it barbaric and meaningless at the same time. The way they did it left a bad taste in my mouth.”
Administrative assistant Yvonne Robinson also shared the same stance as Willis in the fact that she identifies as pro-choice and said that she belives it’s to keep women subordinate.
“A woman has the right to do what they want to do with her body, that’s her choice,” she said. “I think this all happened to keep women subservient. The government orchestrated this to keep us distracted from the future, a better future.”
Standing next to her was boyfriend Tony Guerrero who, while he identified as pro choice, but believed that abortions should only be considered up until six weeks of fetus development. Guerrero believed that like Yvonne, the overturn was done to distract Americans, but for other reasons, like a change in the monastery system known as Cryptocurrency.
“To me, this was done on purpose to distract us from other important issues and the new monetary system coming in place,” he said. “They did this on purpose because cryptocurrency is the new monetary system that [has the possibility] to make everyone successful and they don’t want too many people rich. They want us all to be poor and slaves.”
In the midst of the controversial overturn came a supising turn of events, where president Biden signed an executive order protecting abortion rights. The executive order protects certain specifics rights to aid in abortions, such as medical care among others.While Robinson and Guerrero maintained their own stance about their views behind the overturn, both agreed that the order was a step in the right direction.
“I’m in favor of the executive order,” Robinson said. “It protects their rights, its their right to have abortions.”
“It should protect [women],” Guerrero said. “I think them passing this order should help women secure abortion rights.”
In addition to signing the executive order, Biden also made it mandatory for states to administer abortions in medical emergencies. Wills, however, had a different perspective when discussing this aspect of Biden’s abortion protections. She shared doesn’t protect abortion rights because she feels it protects the rights of some not all.
“I think abortions should be considered no matter what the conditions are,” Willis said. “He’s only fully protecting abortions due to medical issues. When I had my abortion, I had it for medical reasons, but everyone else was either too young or [they were in college]. There were girls there who were studying, young couples who weren’t ready. The vast majority [of patients were there for non-medical reasons, so medical reasoning for abortions are only a small percentage.”
She went on to discuss that she felt the Biden administration’s approach to abortion protections were lacking authority and indecisive.
“I think it’s nonsensical,” she said. “A man that can’t balance on a bike is gonna tell me what to do. Worry about that bike. Abortions should be protecting everyone in need of one. He passed some weak-sounding bill that doesn’t want to come off too aggressively pro choice so he can save face. There’s more that needs to be done.”
Biden signed the executive order on July 8, 2022. States, however, currently hold the overall fate of abortions. A full list of how each state is on abcnews.com affected can be accessed by clicking the hyperlink below.
