This week’s readings and video gave a comprehensive look at abortion and the pro-choice movement. In addition to my class engagement with the issue I have been reading and listening to podcasts, like The Daily, covering the news and historical context of abortion rights in this country. Something I am continuously struck by is how the pro-life movement solely seems to focus on the fetus, with a disregard of the financial, social, physical, and emotional impacts denying access to abortion would have on women and families. It’s a disregard I feel is absent from the pro-choice side. There is obviously a fundamental disagreement on when life begins, or viability of the fetus, or the many ways that argument is framed, but there is still consideration of the issue from the pro-choice side. I always feel it is heavily acknowledged how difficult this choice is, that the choice is not right for everyone, but that having the ability to choose is necessary. I feel Justice Alito’s argument similarly follows this pattern of disregard of a woman’s rights and autonomy, and the impacts this decision will have. I find this especially concerning in the judicial branch that is meant to heavily consider these issues. And though Alito specifically sights that this logic and interpretation of the 14th amendment should only be applied to Roe, I don’t see how this will not set a precedent that could dismantle so many other rights based on privacy. Many of those rights concerning the disenfranchised groups of Americans who are most frequently and easily disregarded.