Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a tireless defender of equal rights for women. She moved our nation incredibly forward in making us "a more perfect union."
Her passing will now force a new generation forward to take up the question of abortion, a true Gordian knot, which pretty much all sides understand to tragically pit mother against child.
The truths on both sides will remain, as they have since Roe v Wade, for a new generation (or generations) to try to successfully resolve:
Abortion kills children in the first, most defenseless, stages of life. Yet eliminating abortion will require _convincing_ women who didn't necessarily want the children conceived (for any number of reasons), and may have been _raped_ to conceive them, to bring those children to term.
I've chosen the word _convincing_ rather than _coercing_ as a means of perhaps moving the question forward.
Convincing _could involve_ finally providing universal access to affordable health care (and day care) to all people in the United States. And even in the extreme cases of rape and incest, the idea could be explored (among certainly many others) of offering _generous financial rewards_ (reparations) to women who were raped but nevertheless brought the children conceived to term.
It should be possible to map out a way to confront the question of abortion in a way that does not return women to second class status which no people of conscience, _including the Catholic Church_, would accept. But we'll certainly have to become creative.
