welcome to the Republic of Gilead

[calimac]

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.

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[cmcmck]

You'll protect a foetus but you won't protect children from gun happy lunatics?

Sheesh!

[oursin]

Mr Justice Macnaghten, who had been a Northern Ireland* Unionist MP before ascending to the bench, in his summing up in the precedent-making case of Rex v Bourne, 1938:

If the doctor is of the opinion, on reasonable grounds and with adequate knowledge, that the probable consequence of the continuance of the pregnancy will be to make the woman a physical or mental wreck, the jury are entitled to take the view that the doctor is operating for the purpose of preserving the life of the mother

He also invoked 'the yet more precious life of the mother' vs that of the foetus.

*The terms of the 1967 Abortion Act only recently became applicable in NI, in fact after Repeal of the 8th in the Republic, and women are still having to make the trip to England or Wales even now because of lack of access.

[wild_patience]

I would urge all women in states outlawing abortion to stay as far from men as you can. If you are single, do not date. Do not get married because you don't want someone else making decisions for you. This will not prevent rape, of course. I have come to the conclusion that the US rape problem is the direct result of the male violence against Black women during the time when slavery was legal in this country. They continued, of course, during Jim Crow. The entitlement felt by white men in the nineteen century continues down through their descendants.