I feel very comfortable saying as a man, that if men could get pregnant there would be more drive-through abortion clinics than Chick-fil-A restaurants in every town in America.
So here we are. Fifty years of stare decisis is about to be shot down by five conservative Judges on the Supreme Court. Why? Because only women get pregnant, and men don’t have to give up control of their bodies for nine months to bring us our little bundles of joy.
Forgot social stability and order in society, forget legal precedent, and forget respect for long settled law. These are different times we are living in. Justice Alito cites Sir Matthew Hale for crying out loud! The same Matthew Hale who said that husbands can’t be prosecuted for raping their wives, and who sentenced women to death for being “witches”. Yikes!
Sadly, we should all have seen this coming when we elected the former guy to the highest office in the land. Now, anything is possible. We thought that the highest court in the land was beyond reproach and could not be compromised. Boy were we wrong.
Liberals and folks on the left are going crazy with rage. They can’t believe that America has morphed into something out of The Handmaid’s Tale. And, quite frankly, some of them should be upset. I say some, because some of these same liberals and left-wing purists refused to vote for Her. —-You know, the e-mails lady— Now, looking back, they are having regrets.
But how could they have not seen this coming? It takes incredible political naivety the likes of which is reserved for the Susan Collins of the world to believe that these Justices were not going to get on the Supreme Court and do exactly what they are apparently going to do. When they all sat there lying to those Senators during their confirmation hearings about respecting precedent and Roe being settled law, we all knew they were lying. But the political game is so rigged in America, and the feckless and inept democrats in congress are so powerless, that we all knew that there was nothing that was going to be done to stop the inevitable.
Now we will see how committed folks in this country are to making sure that we don’t go backwards when it comes to our individual rights. If a woman can be prosecuted and jailed for a choice she makes when it comes to her own body, just imagine what could come next.
I recently saw the following quote from an article written for cnn.com back in November.
“Here’s the best-kept secret about the so-called abortion “debate” in the United States: It’s actually not that much of a debate at all. A majority of Americans believe that the decision to end or continue a pregnancy should be left to a woman and her doctor, not the state. Most Americans oppose laws that make it more difficult for reproductive health clinics to operate. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month challenging Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide, but fewer than a third of Americans want Roe to be overturned. ”
When you have autocratic and fascist leanings, the will of the people does not matter. Only those who are in power get the final word.
Happy Mother’s Day everybody.
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