Burn baby burn
The recent decision by Trump’s Supremes continues the proud Trump Republican Party (TRP) agenda of tearing this nation apart at the seams in the name of their religious patriotism. They rain blow after blow upon our Republic in their quest to undermine the rule of law with their activist judges. They want to replace it with their quasi-religious theocracy ideals and fanaticism. The real Chief Justice Supreme, Clarence Thomas, along with his seditious wife Ginni, want to burn it all down when it comes to the advances that have been made in making our nation more egalitarian.
Pros
I am pro-life and pro-choice. I don’t know anyone that is pro-abortion. I’m sure there are people that are. What I am interested in seeing happen is having the need for abortions be reduced (aka birth control). History has already taught us that punishment doesn’t eliminate those seeking an abortion or reduce the need. The Holy Bible has instructions for performing an abortion.[1] Science has taught us that the method proposed won’t work.
They believed it would.
Cons
Republican Senator James Langford of Oklahoma thinks that 13 year old girls can have consensual sex.[2] Pedophiles have that same position. Langford has daughters. Republicans voted him into office. The age of consent for sex in Oklahoma is 16. However, minors between 14 and 17 can have consensual sex according to Oklahoma law. I’m always surprised, though I probably shouldn’t be, when adult men, like Langford, talk like this and then get elected. It does point up one of the many problems that the issue of abortion presents.
Girls 13 and even younger turn up pregnant.
Full term.
When I was in the service, I ran into one of the sergeants that I served with in Korea at a fort I was stationed at in the United States. I got to meet his wife. One evening when they were with us they wanted to know if they could ask my then wife and me some personal questions. They wanted to know about contraception. We learned that they had been using Norforms feminine hygiene deodorant suppositories for birth control. They were Catholic. We advised them on other methods of contraception. They were both articulate and had high school educations.
Women without access to sex education will get pregnant. Women without access to contraception get pregnant. Female victims of incest get pregnant. Rape victims get pregnant. Teenagers will get pregnant. Women sick with cancer get pregnant. Women with health issues will get pregnant. Poor people get pregnant. (So do those well-off but they will always have alternatives.) Women will have fetuses with un-survivable birth defects. Women will get pregnant because men won’t use condoms. Women will miscarry.[3] We need to reduce the need for abortions.[4]
The Trump Supremes’ decision means that all the above women will be forced to go full term and deliver whether they want to or not in states that prohibit abortion. The overriding plan is that Trump Republican Evangelicals want control of the entire process from bed to birth. They want power over women.
The Trump Supremes gave it to them.
Green light
Now the court cases and appeals over abortion will start winding their way through the courts. The TRP Evangelicals want people punished. They want women in jail. They want abortion providers in jail. They want anyone that helps them in jail. They want people that they think might be involved with abortions in jail. Just as soon as they can they’ll have the Trump Supremes grant personhood status to fetuses and then they can start trying people for murder because it’s either murder or it isn’t and the religious fanatics on the Supreme Court will say it is.[5]
Women that miscarry will be suspect. Common citizens will be enabled by state legislatures to become religious police and will watch out for suspect women engaging in risky behavior.[6]
Welcome to religious Orwell time.
[1] https://yadayadayadablahblah.blogspot.com/2021/11/instructions-for-abortion-numbers-5-19.html
[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-06-25/senator-in-2010-deposition-13-year-olds-can-consent-to-sex
[3] https://yadayadayadablahblah.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-brother-that-might-have-been.html
[4] https://yadayadayadablahblah.blogspot.com/2020/11/bidens-for-life.html
[5] https://yadayadayadablahblah.blogspot.com/2020/09/murderers.html
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/abortion-law-regulations-texas.html