{"id":82117,"date":"2022-05-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82117"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:16:57","slug":"82117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82117","title":{"rendered":"While We Wait On The SCOTUS Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s talk about Roe.<\/div>\n
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I’m pro-life. I’m also one of those quaint hold-outs who’d like to avoid having a civil war if we can.<\/div>\n
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I’m also a *constitutional originalist*. We’ll come back to that.<\/div>\n
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I’ve seen a fair number of friends – people I know, personally, to be neither ignorant nor delusional – repeating some ignorant and delusional things about the Alito opinion, and about what’ll happen if “Roe” is struck down. Ban interracial marriage? Ban same sex marriage? Criminalize miscarriages? Force pregnancies?<\/div>\n
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It will do none of that. That’s *disinformation*.<\/div>\n
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So what *will* it do?<\/div>\n
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It’ll mean that choice supporters (and pro-lifers, for that matter) will have to do what gun owners have had to do for the past fifty years; convince voters, and legislators, one at a time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That’s it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Support reproductive choice? Then you have to convince voters, who elect legislators, that pass bills that get signed into law.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That’s it. Nothing else. It’s a power reserved to the states, and The People, under the 10th Amendment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Now, if 70% of a state’s population supports abortion on demand – as the media continually tells us, every time the subject has come up this past few weeks – then pro-choice laws should slide through the legislature as fast as resolutions praising this year’s Eagle Scouts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Shouldn’t be hard, should it?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If your response is “rights aren’t subject to popularity contests”, then:<\/div>\n
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  1. you get to convince people it’s a right. Not judges – voters.<\/li>\n
  2. please apply that to every gun control law.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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    So what happens in Minnesota?<\/div>\n
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    *Nothing*.<\/div>\n
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    Abortion is considered a right in the MN Constitution (and an entitlement, as well), as it is in several other states. If you’re a pro-lifer and want to change that, you’ll need to get a constitutional measure on the ballot, and have it win.<\/div>\n
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    That’s the case, with or without Roe).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Let’s talk about Roe. \u00a0 I’m pro-life. I’m also one of those quaint hold-outs who’d like to avoid having a civil war if we can. \u00a0 I’m also a *constitutional originalist*. We’ll come back to that. \u00a0 I’ve seen a fair number of friends – people I know, personally, to be neither ignorant nor delusional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82120,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82117\/revisions\/82120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}