Heather Cox Richardson on the Declaration of Independence & Supreme Court Dobbs decision
Friends and readers,
I've written series of blogs about women poets, actresses, and woman painters on my Reveries under the Sign of Austen Two, where I've also written about many women novelists, and about the 18th century, but this is my first on a powerful beautifully humane philosopher and historian of our times, Heather Cox Richardson. For reasons I don't understand I could not make it show on my wordpress blog so I put it here:
Today she explicated the Declaration of Independence in such a way as to make clear what are the issues we are currently in the US gov't struggling to make clear and fighting to preserve our democracy and human rights for:
Notice too if Thomas gets his way, not only is abortion forbidden, but access to contraception may be forbidden. What is this but compulsive pregnancies for women all their lives once they marry? See Richardson's June 24 Newsletter responding to the Court having taken away abortion as a constituential right and Thomas threatening to take away the right to contraceptives, and the right of gays to marry one another
June 24, 2022
Ellen