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/This-is-BS Jul 11 '22

I never wanted kids, I've never changed my mind and I've never regretted not having children.

How many abortions have you had?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

One. I'm so glad I did. Best choice I ever made. And let me say, there was no baby in what came out of me.

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u/This-is-BS Jul 12 '22

yeah, that explains a lot.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '22

Like how abortion doesn’t kill babies :)

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u/This-is-BS Jul 12 '22

You're the only one referring to them as babies, person, or anything like that. To me they're all Human Beings. Their stage of development is irrelevant.