Friday, June 24, 2022

welcome to the Republic of Gilead

Because that's where we're headed. Rapidly.

One of the anti-Roe protesters photographed outside the Court was holding a sign reading "Human rights begin in the womb."

And now they end when you have a womb.

Women below menopause, girls above puberty: you're beasts of burden now.

It's on the same principle that now you have the right to carry a gun (unless you're black, probably) but you don't have the right not to be randomly shot. (Or not to be on hair-trigger alert all the time: that's not my idea of freedom.)

Or the people who want the right to breathe covid virus on other people, but not to give the other people the right not to have covid breathed on them.

For a few decades, we came close to having a free country. We've lost it now.

Megan Rapinoe wants men to stand up and say something. I've said something.

2 comments:

  1. Nah. Your state, California, will be safe for abortion. It's up to the states. It always was supposed to be.

    Thanks for not using the "Trump appointee" canard that I'm hearing today. Supreme Court justices are nominated by the president, but confirmed, or not, by Congress.

    Dale Nelson

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    1. 1) Ah, well I have this thing called "empathy," you see, unknown to conservatives, in which I feel regret for the women in all the other states. Besides, the rhetoric of the opinion makes it clear that the authors consider abortion totally unacceptable and are just looking for a chance to prohibit it altogether.
      2) It's not a canard. The president has a wide choice of appointee. The Senate can only affirm or deny. Who the justices are says a lot more about the president's choice than the Senate's.

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