In the United States, early-term abortion was legal and unregulated until the 1870s. But it was not usually something governments cared about. Abortion is as old as sex - especially non-consensual sex. We’ve seen it coming for a long, long time. Notably, those of us with an unhealthy obsession with the Court - I’ve covered it for ten years – were not surprised at all. How the fuck could this happen? How did we get to the point, in 2022, where the government control women’s bodies and force women to give birth?
Wade, the 1973 case that held that a woman’s right to get an abortion was protected by the constitution, probably came as a shock. To anyone with a normal, passing familiarity with the Supreme Court, the news that a majority of justices are poised to overturn Roe v.
