This is the same old “states’ rights” argument that has plagued our nation since its very founding-pre-dating it, in fact, all the way back to 1619, you might say. Seems almost reasonable, if the person saying it is a well-spoken public intellectual in a bowtie on CNN, and not a spittle-spewing protestor holding a graphic picture of an aborted fetus and screaming in the face of a 14 year-old girl as she tries to enter a Planned Parenthood clinic.īut in fact, that proposition is dishonest and chilling in the extreme. All it will do is return the rightful authority to restrict it to those states that wish to do so.” “When Roe is rightly overturned, it won’t affect the legality of abortion or access to it in liberal states like New York, California, or Massachusetts.
The argument you hear from those folks goes like this: What those cretins have to say about abortion does not merit serious consideration.īut consider what the few remaining, ostensibly “reasonable” conservative pundits have to say on the subject. With its only rational members having fled to a mainstream mediascape where Reality still reigns, the picked-over corpse of what now constitutes “conservative media” consists largely of con men, carnival barkers, and batshit conspiracy theorists hopped up on their own vitamin supplements, human growth hormone, and horse de-wormer. Over the past five years, the term “conservative” has ceased to have its proper meaning in American politics, especially when it comes to the punditocracy. JUST A BUNCH OF REASONABLE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO OWN SLAVES And what could be more shit-sucking than wading into the debate about abortion? This week, it’s back on your heads, people.
In last week’s dancing-about-architecture essay regarding The Beatles: Get Back I didn’t have to mention TFG or the Republican Party even once, which was a treat.
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