No Mo' Roe

Look. We all knew that the Supreme Court was going to overturn Roe v. Wade because of the leaked opinion draft from Justice Samuel Alito from last month.  But certainly the final draft wasn't going to be nearly or even remotely as harshly worded, right? 

Well, the decision was just handed down officially, removing a constitutional right handed down nearly fifty years ago, and it turns out that the only changes from Alito's first draft were largely commas and conjunctions.

I'm just glad that Justice Alito no longer lives in his New Jersey hometown and doesn't commute to Washington on the air shuttle,  Because his hometown . . . is my hometown!

And who's to blame for this overruling?  Susan Sarandon.  Because she told us to vote for Jill Stein for President in 2016 instead of Hillary Clinton.  She also failed to codify Roe in 2009 when she had the power . . . oh, wait, that was the filibuster-proof Democratic-majority Senate of the 111th Congress!

Of course I was being facetious when I said Susan Sarandon was to blame.  Look, you stupid Twitter twits, Susan Sarandon is not a witch - she only played one in the movies!  (Now, Christine O'Donnell - she was a witch!)

So thirteen states automatically ban abortion as a result of this ruling, with another thirteen ready to do so.  And a federal abortion ban is not out of reach, lest any woman who lives in a illegal-abortion state like Iowa to go to neighboring Illinois, where abortion is legal.  And then women will either have to carry their babies to term - even if her child was fathered by a criminal or a family relative - will have to travel to Canada . . . and then the Supreme Court will decide there is no constitutional right for a woman to travel to another country to get an abortion. Then someone will decide that there is no constitutional right for anyone to travel to another country for anything . . . and the Canadian and Mexican borders become the new Iron Curtains under President-For-Life Ron DeSantis.   (It will be like the old Soviet Union; the only Americans who will be allowed to travel abroad are Olympic athletes and ballet dancers.)

Justice Alito said that this opinion should not be read as an attack on other rights rooted in privacy.  So Justice Clarence Thomas, who would not be sitting on the Court if a certain Colorado Democrat who shall remain nameless had not invited a comely blonde and future evangelical Trump supporter to his townhouse in 1987, wrote that decisions such as on contraception and gay marriage are definitely on the table.  And so folks opposed to such things will not stop at abortion.

President Biden urged pro-choice activists to come out and vote in November.  Right.  As long as inflation and gas prices remain big issues, this issue is not going to have a major impact on the 2022 midterms, least of all in the elections for the state legislatures that will now decide on abortion.  There's only one Democrat who even focuses on state legislative elections, and Martin O'Malley is only concerned with his wife's bid for Maryland Attorney General this year.  

I wish well all of those who fight to get this overturning overturned.  But, as I indicated three months ago, I want to be counted out.  Besides, I expect to be busy . . . checking out Irish real estate.