Freedom?
This week, the Supreme Court ruled in the Hobby Lobby case. Everyone should be concerned and upset about this ruling, especially women. Reproductive Rights and Equality for Women I'm still in my 40's, so I can't claim to be a groundbreaking feminist, though I have had to fight for equality a few times. But mostly, the heavy lifting was done before I came along. I grew up expecting my reproductive rights to be there. By the time it affected me, Roe v. Wade was old news. I took an interesting medical ethics class in college, and we studied the law and controversy around abortion, around things like frozen embryos, cloning, etc. It was one of my favorite classes. (I took it the same quarter I took a logic class -- and I think the combination of the two proved very beneficial for my ability to analyze an argument!) The problem, as I see it, is that these same arguments continue today. I'm a bit shaken because this is supposed to be settled law. The state c