A Little More Abortion

My inbox is blowing up with missives from the right wing. They're not cautious and they're not pretty. They're agitated and explosive. Which means what I said resonated with them. Their goal is to shut me up. Their goal is to shut everyone up who doesn't agree with them. They want you to believe you're whacked, don't understand, should stick to what you know and better be ready for consequences.

This is not what happens when I write something that pisses off the left. Takes a long time for the lefties to respond. And it's whiny. And internalized. It's focused on the issue, not me. It's action free. Non-threatening. Coming from a defensive position as opposed to an offensive position. Passive, not active.

Now one of the big problems we have in society is people are uninformed. They only read and see that which agrees with them, and the algorithms at Google and Facebook ensure this is the case, after all they want you to use their products, they want you to be addicted, they want your time, they don't want to piss you off.

But if you read/watch a cornucopia of information you get a much more broad insight into what is going on.

I point you first to the piece by Erwin Chemerinsky (dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) in the "Los Angeles Times" on May 2nd:

"Op-Ed: The brazenly political Supreme Court shows it will strike down abortion rights": lat.ms/3KPj5PG

Here's the most important section:

"'Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.'

Every aspect of this statement is wrong. The reasoning of Roe, a 7-2 decision that was repeatedly reaffirmed by the court, was not weak. For decades before Roe, the Supreme Court held that the liberty of the due process clause protected fundamental aspects of privacy and autonomy. Prior to Roe, the court had protected liberties such as the right to marry, the right to procreate, the right to use contraception, the right to control the upbringing of children and the right of every person to choose 'whether to bear or beget a child.'

Roe followed these decisions with the common sense realization that laws that prohibit abortion and force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term against her will are intrusions on her autonomy and privacy. Unless the court is going to repudiate all of the other privacy rights, it is impossible to deny that laws prohibiting abortion also intrude on a woman's liberty."

Next I point you to Aaron Tang's (a professor of law at UC Davis) piece which is also in the "Los Angeles Times":

"Op-Ed: The Supreme Court Flunks abortion history": lat.ms/3KOwEPt

All of this is pure gold. It refutes Alito's screed with facts.

"But the most shocking aspect of the leaked opinion is something else entirely: the glaring historical mistakes that pervade its supposedly originalist analysis. Contrary to the draft's conclusion, for as long as America has existed, so too have abortions — in most cases free of any form of criminal punishment."

You should really read this Tang article because it completely refutes Alito's analysis. Which is that there's no constitutional right to an abortion and therefore it must be thrown back to the states to make or not make law.

You see the Republicans got out there first, with their spin. That the Justices' hands were tied, that they were only doing what was required. And this has been repeated ad infinitum. As for the other side...the only thing that has gotten traction is Alito's quotation of Sir Matthew Hale, who "had at least two women executed for witchcraft and wrote a treatise supporting marital rape": bit.ly/3MYlNUN This is like taking legal advice from Charles Manson.

In other words, Alito is cherry-picking what he wants from history and assumes the general public will just buy what he is saying and move on. Betting if there is any correction at all, it won't get much amplification, never mind traction.

Which brings me to S.E. Cupp's segment on CNN: cnn.it/3MWw3fY

Every lefty must watch this, to see the right's strategy, they're on the same page, they're saying that the leak of Alito's draft opinion is worse than January 6th, really! Watch this to know what you're up against. This is a machine with talking points it keeps hammering again and again to the point where its audience knows and believes what is said, irrelevant of veracity. Ever have an argument with someone who has got the facts wrong? That's what my e-mail is like. I mean if we can't agree on the facts, how can we have a discussion?

And Putin's strategy is to tire you out with misinformation so you'll give up and stay home.

This is not all by accident, it is planned. And the right wing has its vocal troops in alignment.

Where is the left wing?

HOME ALONE AND SCARED!

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