ST. CLAIR: Overturning Roe v Wade is good for American women

Perhaps an unintended but grave consequence of Roe v. Wade was the absolution of the need for sexual mores and the rise of hookup culture. Women and men could now engage in sexual intercourse ad nauseam, and if the shocking consequence of that decision was a pregnancy, then they could lean on the holding in Roe to terminate the life they created and continue on their merry way.

Recently, the leaks from the Supreme Court seem promising in that the well-being of women may once again prevail over deviancy— at least in within the borders of states that have values and morals.

While there is a misconception that abortion will become totally unavailable with the reversal of Roe, that is far from the truth. States will be left with the ability to make their own decisions, based on the will of their citizens, to allow access to abortions, which will obviously prevail in many states. While there is the obvious discussion about whether abortion should be legal, there is a grossly under discussed component when it comes to the ever-increasing access to and normalization of abortion: An accelerated hookup culture that is actively harming women and making them increasingly unhappy.

In the wake of the "Dobbs-leak", men have come out of the woodworks to profess to the world their dedication to a woman’s "right-to-choose", while attacking the people who have made this possible as misogynists and autocrats. But many of these men are using the veil of "women’s rights" to hide a subconscious association of a woman’s worth with their sexual availability.

Roe has set the stage for opportunistic men, because it allows them to draw women into sex under the guise that it is consequence free, and many women have been none the wiser. The reality is that reproductive irresponsibility has well-documented consequences far beyond pregnancy, all of which negatively impact women’s overall happiness.

Countless studies have explored the under-discussed link between casual sex and depression, with one study citing a direct correlation between casual sex and mental health deterioration. In marriages, those with fewer sexual partners reported being happier overall in their relationship. Casual sex is the leading cause for the rise of STD cases among women, with infection rates skyrocketing each year. Interestingly, these rates temporarily decreased when casual sex hit the roadblock of COVID lockdowns in 2020.

The fact of the matter is that men do not bear the same immediate consequences that women do when it comes to casual sex—psychologically or physically. The modern push for women to view sex as men do, as a pleasurable normalcy, comes from the most aggressive and dominant of the male population, and is likely contributing to women’s ever-growing difficultly to find suitable partners to settle down with.

While women are having more casual sex than ever before, a higher percentage of the male population are having little to no sex, with “1 in 3 men reporting having no sex.” The sexual liberation movement, which in large part was accelerated by Roe, is not making women or men happier or healthier. Instead, it is exploited by many men to brainwash women into believing that the only consequence to sex is pregnancy and the key to their liberation is a solution to those pesky ovaries working the way they’re supposed to.

Maybe that is the most disheartening part of the entire abortion discussion, that pregnancy and having a child is seen as such an earth-shattering, devastating consequential blow.

It’s been ingrained in us as women to dislike, even resent, anything about ourselves that does not serve the purpose of powerful men. And it’s working—with nearly twenty percent of all pregnancies ending with abortion.

When I became pregnant just last year, the idea I had of myself began to fade and I thought I had lost myself. Staring at my beautiful six-month-old baby now, I realize that I hadn’t lost myself at all, but rather, I found myself and a purpose so true to my natural feminine being. Pregnancy isn’t the consequence of casual sex we should be worried about. Instead, pregnancy should be celebrated as sacred, as our superpower as women to bring life into this world. That superpower, no matter how hard the left tries, can never and will never belong to men.

We should teach our girlfriends, our sisters, our wives, our daughters, to celebrate the traits of feminine being that will always be uniquely ours. After all, what is more powerful than being able to bring in and be directly responsible for the next generation running the world.

Many women will read this and may feel angry, enraged even, but ask yourself this: Do you really think the best decision for our freedom and well-being came from a bench of men just a few decades after we weren’t considered worthy enough to hold the same civil rights as those same men? That maybe, we are being sold on a cultural norm that disproportionately makes us unhappy? That maybe, a cultural shift in taking more reproductive responsibility will make abortion rare and only for life-saving medical procedures like it was once intended? That maybe, men will consider the consequences of over-sexualization and availability more instead of leaning in on an insatiable desire for women as sex objects?

Once Roe falls, as it should, perhaps the restoration of honest, healthy, and truly virtuous romance can stand in its place.