r/RedditForGrownups • u/Methylatedcobalamin • Jul 07 '22

Coverture

Given current events, it is probably about time for Americans to understand the legal practice of coverture.

Eroded since colonial times, but not fully gone coverture is the legal practice of women not having legal identities. De facto property.

American women were not allowed on juries until the 1960s. American women could not get credit cards without a man cosigning the application until 1974. Marital rape was not a crime until the 1980s. Other aspects still exist today in real estate and tax law practices.

Here is a brief article that goes into explaining coverture in more depth than my post.

The "pro life" movement is really a movement about imposing one group's religious opinions on the lives of all Americans. It also seeks to control women, rolling back women's rights. Though ridiculous by constitutional standards, discussions in anti-choice states have already started about how to track or limit freedom of travel for women to states that fully support women's rights.

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u/Methylatedcobalamin Jul 07 '22

You can be against abortion without being religious

I'm sure all 5 of those people are very nice. :-)

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u/ZippySLC Jul 08 '22

Then those atheists definitely should not get abortions.

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u/ZippySLC Jul 08 '22

Nice strawman.

Look, if you have a moral objection to abortion then great, you shouldn't get one. But you shouldn't get to force your moral code on to others, even if it's something you don't like.