Social justice for wizards

Alyssa Rosenberg has an interesting post up about how some people refuse to accept that “Harry Potter” has...

Is Roe safe? Absolutely not.

I have to admit, I was genuinely surprised that readers of this blog showed up in comments on this post to spread the glib myth that abortion rights aren’t actually under real threat in this country. This is a myth that has two major proponents: glib liberal men who use it as a way to insinuate that pro-choice activists are hysterical bitches who need to calm down and let a rational male presence set their priorities, and people who voted for Ralph Nader and don’t want to admit that there’s any difference between Democrats and Republicans, which requires pretending that the Supreme Court appointments don’t matter. Ironically, these two couldn’t be more different in many ways, but they share a glibness that I suppose causes the sort of dogpiling-based-on-ignorance that was occurring in that thread.

But in fact, abortion rights in general and Roe v. Wade specifically are in very real danger. I thought I’d do a quick sheet running down the glib attacks on this claim, and why they’re wrong.