From The NY Times:
The emphasis in the court's ruling was also much less on the health or well-being of the pregnant woman, but on the risks and consequences of an abortion to her and her fetus. This makes discussion of an abortion's potentially negative consequences easier, the lawmakers said.
What an astonishing turn of events that a decision made by five men and no women seemed completely disengaged from concerns over the health and well-being of the mother -- and that the Supreme Court's conservative bloc was only able to pursue such reasoning after their one female member retired. It's worth occasionally mulling over the fact that this epochal ruling on reproductive rights was done by a body comprised of eight men and one women, and those who ended up winning the day were five men and no women. The patriarchy lives.
