My wife Gina Vitale Syrja wrote a brief piece with far more resonance than I could have, sending it to me on June 27th, our 19th wedding anniversary (thank you, love):
"Justice Roberts solemnly raised the issue of rushing this moment in the nearly fifty years of protecting women's reproductive health--women's health. As a citizen, I am now suspicious of the one branch of government which specifically exists to ensure the rule of law. To see in my lifetime that my children will have fewer rights than I had is devastating.
"That a court of law can put forward the idea that women not have complete autonomy over their bodies and enforce law, restricting medical health care is a travesty.
"This ruling is incomplete. How is it that 49 years of Roe vs. Wade is overturned without addressing the 50/50 role men play in pregnancies? How is it that people wholly unconnected to a stranger's life experience have a say in their life? How is it that these same people waive the 'right to life' when that person reaches the age of fifteen and is in serious life altering circumstances, needing professional health care?
"How does the ideology of a minority group infiltrate the highest court in the most powerful country? As women fully understand what happens when basic rights are revoked, our nation will never reach its highest potential without women's equality. We have taken a most egregious step backward."