age: 33 (Mar 23, 1979)
MEMBER SINCE: October 2004
occupation: cynic
makes me sad: ass-fat. dick-heads, butt-pumpkins, clown-feet, 0xfeadbeef.
gets me hot: Ladies who kick ass.
crush: squish
into: Pants. I really like wearing pants. Except when I don't.
most humbling moment: repressed for future therapy
stats: Within the top 10% of somethingorother
BLOGS
Hmm. I posted a comment tonight, so I figure I ought to at least have a journal entry. Hmm. What do I know about today.
today I actually went and read the roe vs. wade decission. I have never done that and I found it most informative. It's amazing I have gone this long, and argued so much, about a topic that is among the most central within the modern political dialog, without having read the court's findings.
All of this came about because I've been paying a little bit of attention to the confirmation hearings for almost-certainly-future-supreme-court-justice John Roberts.
All in all, I'm a little dumbfounded that it has remained such an important issue to so many people for so long. Do the pro-lifers actually believe that overturning roe will actually stop the practice of abortion? It's a different world than it was in 1973. Even if the states were allowed to illegalize abortion, only about half of them would. There just isn't the political clout in many states. Furthermore, with pharmasudical abortificants now safe and relatively affordable, a black market of mifisiprizone would crop up in a matter of days. Thus everyone who wanted an abortion would still be able to get it, except for people who don't have enough money to hop on a bus to New York, or buy ru486 on the hush. Not that I want to see roe overturned, but it would achieve what the bible-thumpers think it will.
oh, that's right, people are stupid, I keep forgetting.
-LF
today I actually went and read the roe vs. wade decission. I have never done that and I found it most informative. It's amazing I have gone this long, and argued so much, about a topic that is among the most central within the modern political dialog, without having read the court's findings.
All of this came about because I've been paying a little bit of attention to the confirmation hearings for almost-certainly-future-supreme-court-justice John Roberts.
All in all, I'm a little dumbfounded that it has remained such an important issue to so many people for so long. Do the pro-lifers actually believe that overturning roe will actually stop the practice of abortion? It's a different world than it was in 1973. Even if the states were allowed to illegalize abortion, only about half of them would. There just isn't the political clout in many states. Furthermore, with pharmasudical abortificants now safe and relatively affordable, a black market of mifisiprizone would crop up in a matter of days. Thus everyone who wanted an abortion would still be able to get it, except for people who don't have enough money to hop on a bus to New York, or buy ru486 on the hush. Not that I want to see roe overturned, but it would achieve what the bible-thumpers think it will.
oh, that's right, people are stupid, I keep forgetting.
-LF
OCTOBER 2010
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