Chip Boaz

I’ve been really upset about the recent round of decisions put forth by the Supreme Court. From cutting environmental protections to making access to guns easier, the supermajority in the current court has pushed an agenda to force a specific ideology upon U.S. citizens and their lifestyle. That’s not their job, and at the end of the day, it’s an abuse of power.

The court’s overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which has a massive impact on a woman’s access to abortion, infuriated me and inspired “It’s Not Your Choice.” This decision was not only stripped away a basic human right from women, but it took away their ability to choose. When we loose the right to make choices about the way we live our life, we inch dangerously further away from the basic tenants of democracy.

I wanted to express these ideas through “It’s Not Your Choice.” Instrumental music often leaves things up to interpretation though, so I included the following text in my video:

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court voted to overturn the 1977 case Roe vs. Wade which had long protected abortion rights throughout the United States

In doing so, they returned the decision around laws about abortion to the states, many of which have already taken steps to ban abortion.

Justice Alito wrote about the decision, saying, “the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives”.

But it’s not the supreme court’s choice to make; it’s not a state government’s choice to make, and it’s not a mass electorate’s choice to make

Each individual woman deserves the basic human right to have choices about their body

Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan wrote, “With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent”

I also dissent. The Supreme Court abused their power by forcing a specific set of beliefs on women and by taking away a woman’s right to make their own choices.

It’s Not Your Choice.