It is hard to consider humanity as humane when there are so many human beings who consider it acceptable - even in some cases desirable - for an individual not to have the right of self-determination over their own bodies.
How can one defend the notion that the United States of America is a democracy and therefore has self determination when its Supreme Court can deny self determination to every female within its society?
I wonder what the response would be if the Supreme Court determined that no male could be circumcised or alternatively that all males should be so?
Actually, I don't wonder. I know. If males were suddenly subject to essentially arbitrary, irrational and dictatorially invasive edicts of an ideologically skewed majority of a group sex skewed towards females there would be sights reminiscent of January 6th or worse.
The overturning of Roe v Wade is not simply perverse, it is indefensibly atrocious and an abominable abuse of the right of girls and women to manage their own bodies as they wish.
This decision has given free rein to the arrogant demagoguery of States which choose to enslave their female populations as surely as African Americans were once enslaved. Indeed, those States banning abortion and even threatening imprisonment or worse for those giving or receiving one are committing atrocity reminiscent of Josef Mengels & Aribert Heim of Nazi Germany.
Forcing a girl or woman to give birth is no less a torture than were those experiments and may well result in similar consequences.
One has to wonder how a nation that prides itself as a bastion of freedom and stalwart campaigner for human rights can allow a partisan Supreme Court to exist at all, let alone give it the power to deny a basic human right to half of the population.
This situation cannot be allowed to continue if North American society is to have any further claim to being a fair and just one.
I am male and marvel at the reality of female experience during pregnancy and when giving birth. I doubt that I could bear the discomfort and pain associated with the process even if I had intended and wanted to do so.
It is totally repugnant to me that someone who didn't intend to become pregnant or who does not want to go through with a pregnancy and birth can be made to do so because, effectively, a handful of privileged and prejudiced individuals have decreed it.
