So, now that Roe is toast, what other rights are on the chopping block?

Women were often forced to wear muzzles for speaking too much in Europe.

Unless you live under a rock, you know that Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Pennsylvania. Both rely on the privacy clause of the U.S. Constitution. That is bad enough but the decision is worse.

“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” Justice Samuel Alito.

If the court is now only going to uphold laws and legal precedents that are “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” where will that end? Here are some other things that could be impacted:

1. Voting rights. Black men got the right to vote in 1870. White women got that right in 1920, and that right should have been applied to women of color but it wasn’t. Black women didn’t really get the right to vote until 1965 when the Voting Rights Act became law. So, are voting rights for all “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history?”
2. Women’s rights to own stuff. Did you know that credit card companies could legally turn down women for credit because they were women until 1974?
3. Marriage equality. If you think the right-wing zealots are going to stop with abortion, you haven’t been paying attention. If Roe isn’t settled law…