I hear your fear and I understand it but I think the odds of a constitutional amendment are incredibly unlikely. Many states have tried to pass personhood amendments for their states and they almost always fail (I say almost, but I'm not aware of any succeeding) - so the odds of 38 states ratifying aren't high. Plus it has to get through 2/3rds of both the House and Senate first (not just a majority).
Pro-birthers in many states have responded to their failure to pass personhood amendments by all those other laws that make abortion essentially illegal/inaccessible without outright doing so - I think that's what we're more likely to see. And, with the current climate, an overturn of Roe vs. Wade (though that would require justices who are not only conservative but willing to ignore judicial precedent - so, you know, worse than Scalia).
We are, unquestionably, going to see big threats to reproductive rights and we need to be vigilant against all attacks. We'll see what happens...
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Re: argh!!!! (icon aimed towards Republicans.)
Date: 2016-11-19 10:51 pm (UTC)Pro-birthers in many states have responded to their failure to pass personhood amendments by all those other laws that make abortion essentially illegal/inaccessible without outright doing so - I think that's what we're more likely to see. And, with the current climate, an overturn of Roe vs. Wade (though that would require justices who are not only conservative but willing to ignore judicial precedent - so, you know, worse than Scalia).
We are, unquestionably, going to see big threats to reproductive rights and we need to be vigilant against all attacks. We'll see what happens...