[Mercer] That the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) finally delivered a decision returning and restoring power to the states on this one issue, abortion, is as it should be. If her state outlaws abortion; a woman can still board a Greyhound bus to get the procedure elsewhere.
The ethical elegance of the libertarian argument was voiced before in this space:
However much one disdains abortion, one can’t get away from the matter of self-ownership. You simply have no right to take custody of an adult’s body. An adult woman, however loathsome, either owns herself and everything inside her or doesn’t. You can’t "own" yourself with the exception of your uterus or in conjunction with other busybodies.
Thus, theoretically, "Women have the right to screw and scrape out their insides to their heart’s content." With a proviso: Americans who oppose abortion must be similarly respected in their rights of self-ownership. Taxpayers who oppose the procedure ought to have an equal right to dispense of what is theirs—their property—in accordance with the dictates of their conscience.
Trojans, Trivora or termination: An American woman has the right to purchase contraception, abortifacients and abortions, provided ... she pays for them. For like herself, America is packed with many other sovereign individuals, some of whom do not approve of these products and procedures.
So, while adult women ought to be able to terminate their pregnancies—always to the exclusion of late-term infanticide—what America’s manifestly silly sex does not have the right to do is to rope conscientious objectors into supplying them with or paying for their reproductive choices. The rights of self-ownership and freedom of conscience ought to apply on both sides of the abortion debate.
Late-term abortion, generally, must always be outlawed. (I realize, dear reader, that I owe you argument, not assertion, which, alas, is what I’ve provided.) One could argue that, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the deciding case brought before the SCOTUS, did concern late-term abortion, with the state of Mississippi banning abortion after 15 weeks, pursuant to which, "The Jackson clinic and one of its doctors sued Mississippi officials in federal court, saying the state’s law was unconstitutional. A federal district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the clinic, blocking Mississippi’s law. But the state appealed to the Supreme Court, which put the case on its docket."
The result has been real federalism—on this one vexing matter—although, individual taxpayers who conscientiously object to abortion will still be on the hook for these services should their state authorize them. Federalism does not respect individual choice. And, federalism has hardly been revived. Powers have never been more concentrated in the Federal Frankenstein, which has never been more intractable and tyrannical.
The wide-eyed boy-child we saved, 20 years or so ago, is now a low IQ, AK 47-bearing moron, siring children whenever the whim takes him, and blaming the world because he is uneducated, poor and left behind. … Somalia another fine land of violent, AK 47-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts, and housing pirates of the ocean. Indeed [in Africa], we now have almost an entire continent of sexually hyperactive, illiterate indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world …
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They are not procreating and their adoption rates are minimal. Notice all the rainbow flags at the baby killing rallies?
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Mercer's assumption that non late term abortions are moral but late term abortions aren't may be a majoritarian position. However, neither Mercer nor anyone else is able to define the bright line the separates moral vs immoral abortion.
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President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust
That's because he's lived his whole life on those principles; denial, deceit, and distrust. That you are unwilling to face truth, says far more about you.
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#1 President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust
That's because he's lived his whole life on those principles; denial, deceit, and distrust. That you are unwilling to face truth, says far more about you.
Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-04 15:29
...Frankly, I believe Senator Romney simply hopes that they'll come for him last.
Mike
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Trump in office the country is generally in the right direction despite the establishment resistance, lies, antics, impeachments… Biden in office the country is falling apart and Romney prefers Biden. Makes total sense…. Dumb a$$ Romney!
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Trump in office the country is generally in the right direction despite the establishment resistance, lies, antics, impeachments… Biden in office the country is falling apart and Romney prefers Biden. Makes total sense…. Dumb a$$ Romney!
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Romney's got the spine of a jellyfish. Biden accused Romney of wanting to put blacks back in chains during the 2012 presidential election. Someone with balls would spend at least an hour every week for the rest of his life figuring how to fuck over someone like that. But noooo, not my former governor...
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The Second American Civil War formally ended in April 1865, although hostilities continued off & on for decades.
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It will start with more assinations and mysterious deaths. Judges and LEO will be first. Followed by media. 2028-30 is not that far away.
Since the left is endorsing violence and mob rule I expect war to happen sooner.
Individual shooters, blue and red will pick off protesters until each side arms itself. Then competing protests will shoot it out.
Individual shooters, blue and red will pick off protesters until each side arms itself.
That may happen, but will not be all that common. What will become more common are "random" shootings that obscure personal vendettas, your basic 3rd world approach to settling scores & upholding one's "honor". Crowds of people gathering together for any reason, or no reason, will be targeted.
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I see it differently. The left will continue to be violent at the same time their ideals are exposed as horribly toxic. They will get whipped badly at the ballot box for the next three elections. At every level down to dogcatcher. This will result in re-funding the police and thugs and Antifa types arrested and given long sentences.
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Any planning of future branches and sequels would see the 22 and 24 election outcome as key trend nodes. If the great Red Reset fails, especially if it fails through fraud, this happens.
The doughnut-ring suburban-rural interface would be the front lines, as would key transit nodes that feed the blue urban cores. As long as it retains the characteristics of low-intensity conflict and absent OCONUS players onshore, siege tactics 101 should be a focus for future thinkers. Just imagine a Mad Max version of the double circumvallation of Alesia for Sacramento.
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Large Blue cities import food and fuel. Some of them still make things, but generally stuff comes from somewhere else. Control of supply lines would be key. See Rus v Ukr 2022, for example.
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Well, we just had a mass casualty even at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park... wait for it.. Illinois! My grandma might literally crawl out of her grave over this one.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] After the capture of Belogorovka and Verkhnekamensky, battles began for Seversk. In the event of the loss of the city, the Seversk-Soledar line will begin to crumble quickly enough and our troops will not only be able to move further to Slavyansk and Kramatorsk (on which artillery attacks are increasing), but also roll from the north to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Soledar, and then at Artemovsk.
Of course, they will also try to organize an offensive from the Klinovoye area, but there is no rapid progress expected there, at least until the occupation of Pokrovsky. It is the battles for Seversk, Soledar and Artemovsk that will be the focus of attention in the coming weeks. The enemy will try with all his might to slow down the pace of the offensive of our troops in order to transfer the battles east of Slavyansk into a positional phase.
[ColonelCassad] Although the cleansing of Lysychansk and the fighting near Belogorovka are still ongoing, but officially July 3 will be considered the Day of the Liberation of the Luhansk People's Republic from Ukrainian occupation. Congratulations to all residents of the LPR. We are waiting for the liberation of the DPR and everyone together in their native harbor. And not only Donbass.
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Now why couldn't the Russians have said that they were going in to protect Russian medical students like Reagan said when going into Grenada. That would have made it right, right? O.k., o.k., maybe no medical students, but still.
[Babylon Bee] FLATWOODS, KY — According to sources, local man Dave Smithers was struggling to afford food for his July 4th barbecue due to food prices being up over 3272% this season. His luck changed, however, when he realized he still had the 16 cents President Biden helped him save on his barbecue last year.
"Thank you, Biden! You're a lifesaver!" said Smithers as he ran to the family safe and carefully removed the 1 dime, 1 nickel, and 1 penny he had stashed away last year for occasions like this. "July 4th is saved! Hallelujah! Build back better!"
Other families haven't been so lucky. Smithers' neighbors recently spent their 16 cents to buy 0.0091 gallons of gas. Several more families in the neighborhood invested their 16 cents in Bitcoin and their investment is now worth 8 cents.
Smithers plans to use his 16-cent bounty to help his neighbors and invite them to all share one hotdog this July 4th.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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