Before Justice Alito’s draft overturning Roe v. Wade’s corpse was autopsied, Mitch McConnel started inviting mourners for the idea of a federal prohibition of abortion. [And] “if this were the final decision, that was the point that it should be resolved one way or another in the legislative process,” he told the USA Today. “So yeah, it’s possible. It would depend on where the votes were,”said McConnell. The Senate minority leader also reiterated the filibuster would not be used to make abortion against the law. Of course—using air quotes, Mitch McConnell would never manipulate the rules of the Senate for his gain.
At this point, it should be evident that conservative men in America view women as chattel. It is not by accident there is no mention of women—ANYWHERE—in the original Constitution. In a John Wayne western, he would have owned a mule, a few slaves, and a woman. Now, the equivalent would be an F-150, Colin Kaepernick, and a breed woman. The fantasy that the Republican party is still playing on the same moral field as the Democrats are absurd. Witness the husband of uber-conservative Ginni Thomas [Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas]. He lambasted liberals for attempting to bully the Justices because pro-choice supporters would not accept an outcome they did not like. [A]s a society, “we are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don’t like,”said Thomas.
As if irony were agross substance on his shoe, Thomas went on to say, “We can’t be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that,”he said. Of course, his wife is implicated in one of the most violent denials of an outcome in American history—the January 6 insurrection. Despite the denials by Judge Alito, the author of the draft to overturn Roe v. Wade, what gives the American people any confidence that other attacks on our privacy are not in the offing. Was it because he gave his word of ‘your honor.’ Associate Justice Alito also said that Roe v. Wade was an “important” precedent but hinted, even then, at stripping women’s rights under the right circumstances. In his 2006 confirmation hearing, Alito said;
“Roe v. Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court. It was decided in 1973, so it has been on the books for a long time,” he said. “It is a precedent that has now been on the books for several decades. It has been challenged. It has been reaffirmed. But it is an issue that is involved in litigation now at all levels.”
Separate but Equal is as flawed as Trickle-down economics, it keeps the powerful, powerful, and the rest of us just get wet. It reminds me of All in the Family and its depiction of racism in America. The comparisons to the program Handmaid’s Tale have been unavoidable and inevitable, but it is also a disservice to the cruelty of fact. Bigots, misogynists, and authoritarians are not affable, misunderstood people with good hearts; they are dangerous men and women. Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves said yesterday that there is no right to an abortion in the Constitution, but there were also no women according to the Constitution.
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