Some people are upset that the draft of overruling Roe v. Wade was leaked. More have been upset that a women's right to control their own bodies is in great danger.
Looking at the draft what concerned me even more were some of the comments that showed when Judge Samuel Alito wrote the draft he was living in a total misconception of what women's lives are really like.
He talks about maternity leave but doesn't consider how someone living paycheck to paycheck can go without paychecks.
He talks about health insurance which doesn't apply to everyone.
He must have been thinking about other countries like U.K., Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada and other industrialized countries. Certainly it is not the case universally in the U.S.
I'm sure none of his wealthy cronies have the problem of affording an unwanted third child.
He doesn't mention how he actively opposed women being allowed to attend his university, Princeton.
What distressed me the most was this phrase... “whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to be adopted has become virtually nonexistent.”
Should it be a comfort to a woman whose life is thrown into an upheaval if she is face with an unwanted pregnancy that she is increasing the supply of infants?
Early child trafficking?
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