Well, the U.S. Supreme Court just had to do it. Shaming at least two of the conservative justices by the leaking of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion on the constitutionality of Roe v Wade didn’t work. If the intent was to cause sufficient uproar amongst the public, which according to polls supported retaining it by a 2-1 margin, that didn’t work either. Perhaps people thought overturning Roe was simply too “radical” for the stomach of at least two of the conservative justices, John Roberts in particular. But then again, Roberts apparently has little influence on the radicals on the court. He did make a personal statement by at least in a concurring opinion with the majority that overturning Roe was too radical a move, but he otherwise agreed with the majority that even with Roe, there was nothing to prevent states from passing their own laws in regard to limiting abortion.
Of course the far-right radicals on the court have no business in preaching about “morality,” let alone ethics; Clarence Thomas’ wife was one the more insane adherents to Donald Trump’s stolen election conspiracies, and it is a fair bet that Thomas also holds views that probably don’t bear close scrutiny. Although we had been told that the original ruling was based on privacy rights, which are “enshrined” in the Bill of Rights, just like, say, the right to own guns that can kill 20 people at a time, you have these “originalists” who are blind to the fact that the “founding fathers” could not have forseen the advance of technology, the instant lethality of the smallest of weapons, or how access to information changes how one views the world and their role in it. Nor could they have forseen that such changes could allow a fascist threat to democracy--first Trump, and now with the likes of Florida governer Ron DeSantis.
The truth of the matter is that the far-right on the U.S. Supreme Court is only interested in fighting culture wars that is only supported by a minority of people, which only underscores their delusions from the realities of the modern world. Kevin McCarthy is now telling the world than one-in-three Americans represents the "will of the people"; but then again, right-wing math has always been a bit off.
But I’m not going to cut gender warriors from the far-left any slack in their own culpability in believing their own delusions. They may have been expressing “concerns” about the possibility that Roe would be overturned, but I didn’t get the impression that they actually believed it would happen, because if they did, they would have changed tactics long ago. It isn’t all over just yet, since the court ruling “technically” still allows states to craft their own policies, for or against access to abortion, but you have to wonder if they have learned anything.
For example, you have people like some musician and gender activist I never heard of named Billie Eilish who wrote a piece in Variety slamming the “Internet for Caring About Depp-Heard Trial Over Abortion Rights: ‘Who Gives a F—?’ You know what, it was people like you who were too busy doing things like supporting an abuser and a liar and allowing yourself to use and being used by MSM to care all that much about the fact that you allowed the Roe decision to slip under the radar for years.
I personally don’t think abortion rights activists, by the way they define themselves and what they do, have a moral leg to stand on; nevertheless I think that it is a woman’s right to make that choice (within limits, such as at the point when “late term” comes into play, when the question of “homicide” can enter the discussion if there is no other “issue” other than simply not “wanting” the child). Yet the MSM and women-only rights activists were too consumed with their “outrage” over things like the Depp verdict to understand that they (like the narcisisstic Amber Heard) also had to move on from this and deal with reality.
And what is that reality? Some people can’t look themselves in the mirror and say, “You know what? I effed-up.” Their accusatory and slanderous ways alienated people who otherwise supported their positions. That is what effed-up Hillary Clinton in 2016, and why we now have a 6-3 far-right majority on the court. Wisconsin used to be a state well-known for its progressivenes, but now look at; voters there barely dumped Trump in 2020 even knowing his fascist, anti-democratic impulses.
The question now is whether there will be a recognition among voters that the far-right on the court has gone too far and the only way to stop it is to punish Republicans at the polls. Will they do this? Unlikely, because there are plenty of older white women who are past their childbearing age who are more motivated to vote by things like racism, xenophobia and white nationalism than gender politics. That’s the reality looking back at you in the mirror.
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