Derrick Z. Jackson: Children Will Suffer the Consequences of Recent Supreme Court Rulings

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It appears to be of no concern to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ultraconservative majority how children are collateral damage in its monumental rulings to close the 2021-22 term.

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First, the conservativesstruck downNew York’srequirementfor gun owners to prove why they should be allowed to pack heat in public. The ruling ignored, among many practical realities, thatbulletsare now thetop killerof children.

Then, in overturning Roe v. Wade’s constitutional right to an abortion, they not only denied a pregnant person’s right to their own body, but they also ignored the fact that children born to mothers who are denied abortions face a3-in-4 chanceof beingraisedinpoverty.

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel…

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