Your comparison at the end between enslavement and southern states again trying to control what people can do with their bodies is apt and as you state, timely. I only recently discovered that pregnant people cannot get divorced in some states, but must wait for the birth of the child. It surprised me that one of these states is California.
The Christian Nationalist intent to stop no fault divorce is yet another way to prevent people from freely making decisions about their lives, as are many of their more well known attacks on abortion, contraception, puberty blockers and gender affirming care.
I was pleased to see that the Southern Poverty Law Center designated some of the groups trying to push the Cass Report from the UK as hate groups. The Cass Report being one conducted by a doctor of questionable credibility regarding transgender care and puberty blockers. This report has been discredited by the American Association of Pediatricians and yet in the UK the government used the upcoming elections snd the dissolution of parliament to outlaw puberty blockers and make their possession a crime that can be charged against the transgender patient as well as their parents. It sounds to me that the reasoning you explain here could possibly be applied to such executive orders if they were enacted by say a governor. De Santis comes immediately to mind. I realize this is a stretch and I’m no lawyer but some of the reasoning about autonomy or lack thereof could apply.
I am very worried about the far reaching ramifications of Dobbs being applied to many other areas, as you’ve been describing in these posts.
The analysis about sovereignty applies very broadly. I'll address it again in another related piece tomorrow. But what I'm writing pertains exclusively to adults and their sovereignty over their own minds and bodies. I'm not writing about disputes between children and their parents, between children and the government, or between parents and the government regarding children.
Your comparison at the end between enslavement and southern states again trying to control what people can do with their bodies is apt and as you state, timely. I only recently discovered that pregnant people cannot get divorced in some states, but must wait for the birth of the child. It surprised me that one of these states is California.
The Christian Nationalist intent to stop no fault divorce is yet another way to prevent people from freely making decisions about their lives, as are many of their more well known attacks on abortion, contraception, puberty blockers and gender affirming care.
I was pleased to see that the Southern Poverty Law Center designated some of the groups trying to push the Cass Report from the UK as hate groups. The Cass Report being one conducted by a doctor of questionable credibility regarding transgender care and puberty blockers. This report has been discredited by the American Association of Pediatricians and yet in the UK the government used the upcoming elections snd the dissolution of parliament to outlaw puberty blockers and make their possession a crime that can be charged against the transgender patient as well as their parents. It sounds to me that the reasoning you explain here could possibly be applied to such executive orders if they were enacted by say a governor. De Santis comes immediately to mind. I realize this is a stretch and I’m no lawyer but some of the reasoning about autonomy or lack thereof could apply.
I am very worried about the far reaching ramifications of Dobbs being applied to many other areas, as you’ve been describing in these posts.
The analysis about sovereignty applies very broadly. I'll address it again in another related piece tomorrow. But what I'm writing pertains exclusively to adults and their sovereignty over their own minds and bodies. I'm not writing about disputes between children and their parents, between children and the government, or between parents and the government regarding children.