{"id":317710,"date":"2021-09-19T14:59:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2d4d9e1d7bfe3abd443416476c349579"},"modified":"2021-09-19T14:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:59:25","slug":"texas-abortion-ban-architect-takes-aim-at-lgbtq-rights-urges-reversal-of-roe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/19\/texas-abortion-ban-architect-takes-aim-at-lgbtq-rights-urges-reversal-of-roe\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Abortion Ban Architect Takes Aim at LGBTQ Rights, Urges Reversal of Roe"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Protesters<\/a>

Advocates for reproductive freedom and LGTBQ+ equality on Saturday pointed to a legal brief filed in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could soon overturn Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a> as a crucial example of the broader goals of those fighting to end abortion rights across the United States.<\/p>\n

“It’s never just been about fetuses. It’s about controlling sex,” tweeted<\/a> Muhlenberg College assistant professor Jacqueline Antonovich, a historian of health and medicine.<\/p>\n

Both Antonovich and Elie Mystal, The Nation<\/em>\u2019s justice correspondent, responded to a portion of the brief flagged<\/a> by New York University School of Law professor Melissa Murray that challenges previous rulings from the country’s highest court on not only abortion but also LGBTQ+ rights.<\/p>\n

“Of course” the so-called “right to life” movement is also coming after cases that established key LGBTQ+ protections, said<\/a> Mystal, “because it’s never about ‘life’ and always about ‘Christian fundamentalism.'”<\/p>\n

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These attacks also show a callous disregard for the danger they put women and LGBTQ people in if they were to be successful. <\/p>\n

And they fly in the face of the American values that all of us have the right to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…safely.<\/p>\n

— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) September 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n