Abortion: Inconvenient truths for a matter of convenience.
The recent Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs case and its reversal of Roe v. Wade is a political, social, and cultural earthquake with reverberating seismic shifts that has potential for more destruction and confusion in the coming weeks, months, and years. I am not sure how this will all play out in the 2022 elections and beyond, but my instinct tells me that this may be a pivotal moment in American politics and culture. Why the issue of abortion holds such a powerful and tenuous position in our society is worthy of some deeper analysis. While America's other big issue, race, has obvious origins and easy to understand context, abortion's rise to such a defining cultural issue does not. I also think that the many in the media over simplify the abortion issue by framing it as an attempt by over zealous religious types trying to impose their beliefs about sex and women on all women, or that abortion is merely about the reproductive health of wome...