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Originally Posted by LessinSF
I have no problem admitting when I have been wrong. I have been wrong here, I apologize for that. For not realizing how strong and evil the irrationality of religion and, in particular, the Catholic Church is, and its infection of the Supreme Court,
I will vote with my feet, I am going to leave the US to feed on its self-righteous, religious (i.e. insane) self. Seriously, I'm moving if I can Y'all can have the travesty that the voters seem to want.
To those that hide behind the catchphrases of "liberty" and "freedom," but also would deny autonomy to women over their own bodies against a blastocyte, because it supposedly contains a "soul," you are reprehensible pieces of shit.
Today was a dark, repugnant and deplorable in day in US history.
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The most galling part of it was reading Roberts' concurrence. I disagreed with it, but it was an off-ramp, and a defensible one with which the Right would have a difficult time finding fault. Mississippi had only sought to regulate, and Roberts would be giving them the technically limited result sought.
The five advocates on the court deliberately chose to take an extreme and unnecessary position. It was a fuck you to the country, and Thomas' comment was a threat. There's no other way to take it.
The Court is illegitimate. Doing what it did the same week it flipped a 110 year old gun regulation in NY eliminated any doubt it is a nakedly political institution. Ruling in favor of a coach praying on the field as it did today makes a trifecta explaining the Court in a nutshell. God, guns, and Calvinist punishment for women.
But there are greater pieces of shit. In the wake of this, I've heard no more than a dozen times, "Well, one can just drive to another state to get an abortion." Those people are the most fetid pieces of shit.
They also fail to grasp what's coming. The real insanity starts when the red states start making it a felony to send abortion pills into them.
Ultimately, litigation of the equal protection issue - that any law rendering women unable to exercise the same level of bodily autonomy as men is unconstitutional - is the final battle on this issue. When that case hits the Court, which should be within two years, SCOTUS will be forced to either follow the law or admit it is, as currently composed, an illegitimate institution. I don't see how it can avoid cert, as there will be differing decisions in different circuits.
