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Alabama’s I.V.F. Ruling Shows Our Slide Toward Theocracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/opinion/alabama...®i_id=96954166&segment_id=158840&te=1&user_id=e6affdf52fe9bfcd78f41474fda15788

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I called Sean Tipton, the chief advocacy and policy officer at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, who told me: “One of the points in the abortion debate is, ‘Is it really about abortion or is it about controlling women and controlling sex?’ And this clearly exposes the idea that it’s not just about abortion.” He said, “There is no more pro-life medical treatment available, ever, than in vitro fertilization, and this decision clearly threatens the ability for that to continue.”

Control of women’s bodies is the endgame. And some religious conservatives won’t stop until that goal is achieved. For that reason, intervening victories — like the overturning of Roe v. Wade — will never be seen as enough; they will only intensify a blinding sense of righteousness.

There is an array of reproductive rights cases percolating around the country that could make their way to the Supreme Court — the same court that Donald Trump brags about transforming, having appointed a third of its justices. The legal and political battles over these issues are far from over, and the preservation of women’s remaining rights is far from certain.
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Which is made all the more interesting by the fact that non-belief is at an all-time high, and rising. In the 80s the rate of non-belief was something like 10%. Give or take. Recent data I have seen say that it's up to 30%.

Hmmm...actually it took a slight dip recently:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/re...

It's still more than 2x the rate of 40 years ago. There has been a lot of speculation that the internet is responsible for a lot of that. Before, people lived sheltered lives. They weren't exposed to new ideas. The internet gave them that exposure, and the theist arguments could never hold up (because they're false), and many theists lost their faith. Heck, at TMF I'm aware of at least two that tried to come to Atheist Fools to "school" us, and ended up joining us because they realized their arguments were fallacious nonsense.

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