Leaked Supreme Court Decision signals majority set to overturn Roe v. Wade

[onlinebiker]

At what level should the fundamental rights of a woman be decided?  Perhaps it should go down to the county level, or even the city level?

A constitution that allows the right to privacy, but that doesn't include the right to private medical choices about their own body?  That is B.S. .  The "originalists" on the court truly believe that if an idea wasn't part of the zeitgeist at the moment that the constitution was written, then it obviously wasn't meant to be a right.

The Religious Right hates "rights".  I have had discussions with conservative religious friends, and they literally believe that there can be no rights but what the majority allows.  They believe legislature must have supremacy over courts.

What the majority allows. You said it. In Iran that majority might let you live if you are not Shiite Muslim, as long as you know your place and never raise your voice. Men in Afghanistan have rights, especially the right to deny females educations, jobs, and positions of political power. But conversely and equally oppressive would be someone like Saddam who ruled with a minority party of Baathists over a majority of the population who were other. 

The truth is America is being held hostage by a very large minority who thinks they are the majority. But regardless, our government is not based on majority rule, or minority oppression of the majority. I see the Constitution as a tool to create as much balance and fairness as possible. But like anything in life, the tool can be abused. "Might makes right" literally is what they are arguing, and that would be true if you are a majority Imam ruling over Iran, or a powerful minority such as Saddam was, ruling over a majority of others.

Nobody likes the prospect of having an abortion, not the doctor, not the female, nobody. But we don't live in a perfect world and as such privacy to me should be the supreme guide in law making and judicial precedent. It is true that the Supreme Court has reversed prior Supreme Court rulings and that ability should be protected as an idea for long term stability. But like any tool it can be abused and our right wing leaning Scotus is pretending to make it a states rights issue, when they damned well know it is pulpit politics that they support.

Nobody is being held hostage you blubbering fool.


You just have to put some effort into the policies you want - and you need a bunch of like minded people doing the same.

Bitching, moaning and making lots of noise - AKA "protesting" won't do it. 

Hiring lawyers and lobbyists and playing the damned game is the only thing that really works.

But you do you....