The potential overturning of Roe v. Wade will have repercussions far beyond a woman's ability to get an abortion. When you have a federal law guaranteeing rights across the board, people don't have to think about where they'd live, where they'd take a job, where they'd vacation.
Now, with the draft Alito decision leaked, Americans are suddenly thinking, OMG. Will I accept that job in Austin? I want to get married and raise a family — will I have any rights if I move there?
Or, further: Would I be willing to live in a red state if I'm of childbearing age and could die from an ectopic pregnancy? Can I go on that vacation in the Ozarks if I'm pregnant? What if I run into trouble while I'm there? Will the ER docs let me die because the embryo in my fallopian tube takes precedence over my life?
Because of these questions, we cats are seeing plenty of conversations on social media about the US breaking up. Yes, those arguments carry weight. They are scary. And red states definitely benefit from the taxes that blue states pay. But we can't help thinking that a red-state-blue-state breakup is exactly what Vladimir Putin wants.
The United States of America has influence abroad because of just what it is — the United States. Please, let's find a way to continue to be the land of "out of many, one." We cats PURR.
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