The latest leak to Politico of how SCOTUS may be thinking was a shocker... They are seriously thinking about ending Roe v Wade.
Texas, and many southern states have been waging their war on abortion by passing increasingly stricter controls on who can provide such procedures, and the amount of paperwork and time delay the woman must go through to get one.
Multiple states have previously attempted to either try to give the father a right to veto the abortion or require the father to be notified. Both were struck down by previous SCOTUS, but if RvW was overturned, one can expect such prior decisions to be moot.
And just to point out the inequities, a father is NOT allowed a "financial abortion", since he never wanted kids, and his partner got pregnant anyway (sometimes, through extraordinary measures, such as stealing a spent condom...). The court ruled that a child's need for support supersedes the father's interests.
But what they don't realize, or care about, is the law of unintended circumstances.
What do you think the father would do if the pregnant woman was FORCED by the government and circumstances to carry the child to term, and he cannot opt-out of that responsibility?
Do you really think he'll just turn into a productive citizen for the sake of the child?
Some may, but some will seek a different solution.
This answer will be extremely disturbing, but also terribly obvious.
The answer is... murder.
Between 2018 and 2019, HOMICIDE is the LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH for pregnant women (and newborn mothers) by "more than twofold" over the other leading causes of maternal mortality.
Think about that.
A woman, merely by being pregnant, is MORE likely to die by homicide, compared to the non-pregnant population of the same age and race.
Think about that.
Further tightening the ban on abortion will only make this worse.
We are already in the age of COVID and Qanon. Qanon fodders have killed their wives just because they read somewhere that their wives are contaminated with lizard DNA or some such nonsense. Add stress of COVID to that, THEN add the idea of an UNWANTED family, what do you think would happen?
In an alleged attempt to save one life, the anti-abortion laws are killing two, three if you count the (don't-wanna-be) father.
It's not about saving lives.
It's about control.
It was always about control.
