I just don't understand
How can so many things that we've all taken for granted for years, or in some cases, decades, are now suddenly in question now, in 2022 AD, and that list seems to be growing daily.
Abortion: We know that right-wingers/evangelicals/Republicans have been after Roe for decades, chipping away at it, getting Justices on to SCOTUS that are sympathetic to their position and it looks like they may finally succeed (and soon) in eliminating any guaranteed constitutional right to an abortion.
Birth Control: Once they get rid of Roe, their next target, inexplicably, seems to be Griswold, which guaranteed the right of people to use birth control without government interference. This seems like the stupidest move of all because you won't find hardly anybody nowadays who doesn't use birth control or at least doesn't want government telling anybody that they can't. How this would be considered a political winner beggars belief.
Gay Rights: Right-wingers/evangelicals/Republicans have been trying to figure out ways to not have to comply with Obergefell and seem to want to get rid of that as well as soon as possible so that they can ban it or severely limit in states they control. The fallout from overturning Obergefell and states reinstituting bans would be considerable. Not that they care much about the ensuing chaos, however, again, this is another move that would be massively unpopular among most Americans and even some Republicans, whom have come out in the years since then. This is, of course, to say nothing of somehow overturning Lawrence v. Texas, which legalized consensual sex between members of the same sex would go down in 2022
Interracial Marriage: Indiana Senator (one of mine, sorry) Mike Braun acknowledged that there are almost no limits on how much power states should have over individual and human rights, which even includes being able to have the power to tell mixed-race couples that they shouldn't be allowed to get married, a monstrously racist position that should be enough to drive every last POC from the Republican Party for all eternity. Braun tried to walk back his statements, however, when you're basically arguing state supremacy over just about everything in terms of individual and human rights, this is just the logical extension of that philosophy.
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My religious, rightwing mother hated birth control pills (promotes sex outside marriage) and abortion. She had 3 children in the first 3yrs of marriage, then at the urging of her doc...and my father(!), she agreed to have tubal ligations done.
She also strongly disapproved of interracial marriage and not until her late 70's would she accept homosexuality as fact!
She actually asked me, "But how do they do 'it'?"
