Conniptions over the "right" to abort
The woke universe on fire over "pregnant People" (!) losing the right (!) to surgically terminate life....
I got a royal chuckle over the chocking, huffing, and puffing delivered by the above super-woke MSNBC newscaster, and his equally terrified and aghast guest, who just can’t believe the US Supreme Court may be en route to quashing the inglorious Roe vs Wade 1973 decision that recognized the “right” of women to abort (meaning ‘terminate’ as in ‘killing’) babies they don’t want without excessive government restriction.
The cause of this “nukellar” — as some pronounce “nuclear”—blast upon a woman’s “right,” to surgically extract from her body a baby she wishes not to have, is a leaked supreme court draft opinion, signed by Justice Samuel Alito, that clearly presages the defenestration of Roe vs Wade once final decision time arrives.
The online jungle is already aflame (see this, this, and this, for example), with gasping announcers of both (and not ‘multiple’) sexes mourning preemptively the end of Western Civilization, as we know it, if this diabolical opinion prevails.
Abortion wasn’t one of my immediate concerns until I became more broadly educated after I first landed in the US, in 1972, and came to notice the front-page blast generated by the 1973 decision.
There’s practically no middle ground when you begin to grapple with abortion. Supporters are as raving mad, and darkly hostile, in defending the “right” as fire-breathing opponents similarly are in castigating (and threatening) those “who kill babies.”
Wokeness has further exacerbated the issue beyond control by insisting that “all people” can be pregnant. And an associated flaming topic is how to determine the beginning of life; at the moment, the prevailing method is detecting a heartbeat, something that’s still challenged by abortionists.
Now, if you’re the primitive type, who associates pregnancy solely with the existence of a womb, you’re still in a bind: biological women, who “transition” from female to male, face the unalterable harsh reality of being women, and of dying women, irrespective of how they “feel” in accordance with the rather unhinged theory of Nature supposedly allowing “multiple sex identities.” This is yet another nagging question for a truly “caring” society to settle.
Protecting your (female) “masculinity” is indeed a hard job in a world dominated by men, who have no doubts they are truly men thanks to their male factory built (again though problems do arise in the case of homosexuals, who don’t wish to be ‘women’ but still prefer ‘loving,’ and submitting to, men exclusively).
Fear spreads across the land… and (primarily Western) humanity is firmly en route to collective madness.
Leaked Draft Opinion Says Supreme Court Will Overturn Roe - If issued, it would open the door for absolute abortion bans at any time and for any reason.
Late Monday night, Politico shook the earth with something no one in modern times has seen before: a prepublication draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that would upend the lives of millions of Americans by unequivocally overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. If Justice Samuel Alito’s 98-page opinion that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” is officially issued by the court as it stands — and this could theoretically change by the end of the court’s term, typically in June — about half the states in the country are expected to ban or severely restrict abortion.
The outcome itself is not the surprise. Anyone who listened to the justices’ oral deliberations on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in December could hear there was a majority to overturn the 49-year-old precedent that kept pre-viability abortion technically legal. (My recap of the argument was headlined “This Is How Roe Ends.”) But its inevitability doesn’t diminish the devastating impact such an opinion would have on real people’s lives.
The Court’s typical process is to take an initial vote in its private conference in the days following argument; then the writing of opinions are tentatively assigned by the chief justice or, if he’s in the minority, the most senior justice in the majority. According to Politico’s source, this outcome had five votes in conference, and “how Chief Justice John Roberts will ultimately vote, and whether he will join an already written opinion or draft his own, is unclear.” A week ago, the plugged-in Wall Street Journal editorial page seemed worried that Roberts would defect and try to take other justices with him. After Politico published the leaked opinion, CNN reported that, according to its sources, Roberts was opposed to completely overturning Roe but was willing to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.