I'm not sure where you live, Duddy9, but something that has a profound effect on women's rights in the US is BOUND to spill over into other nations. Just look at how we've been farming out our conservative ideology since around Reagan. We put political pressure on other countries all the time to conform to our "morality"... many nations are receiving financial aid from the US for their sexual health campaigns, for example, but will be denied ANY funds if anything but abstinence only education is taught. I'd say that is a great example of our policy shifts effecting other countries... so don't be so sure Alito's nomination has "no affect whatsoever" on you sometime down the road ;)

Additionally, I think cutting off the choice for women in one arena hurts their ability to make choices in others. How, for example, is a woman forced to keep an unwanted child going to be able to make choices like getting a thorough education? I know many single moms do it, but the point is that we should be moving our society toward a LEVEL playing field, not heaping more and more difficulty on women, who already make 2/3 the amount of income as men for the same work here in the US, and on average are 3 to 5 times as likely to live in poverty. Not to mention disturbingly high statistics on rape, which can often lead to unwanted pregnancy.

I hope that Alito's promise not to go after and change "accepted legal precident", which is what Roe v. Wade is currently, will hold. It would be awful if the ability to get an abortion became something women could only do in certain states... just imagine the immense impact that would have on healthcare in both legal and illegal states. How can we possibly want our mothers, daughters, and sisters to go back to an era when they needed to put their lives and future health on the line because of something that is just a clump of cells? For me, the rights of people we have already established as sentient human beings far outweigh the possible rights of potential future life.



~Nick :cosmic: