What? You don't like emanations from the penumbra?
My terribly cynical suspicion is that this leak was strategic. The actual decision handed down will be a typical kick the can down the road and not overturn the current status quo at all. This leak galvanizes otherwise completely unengaged democrats just as a historic midterm defeat was approaching.
Next, the reversal of what we are led to think would be the decision will generate just the sort of partisan controversy that keeps everyone distracted. The right will say the court was intimidated, the left will say they -should- be intimidated, etc.
I think it is even possible that the leak was orchestrated by a Trump appointed judge who is afraid to go along with the decision and afraid not to. Leak it and then let everyone think you were afraid of angry leftist rioters.
People who opposed abortion for many years are celebrating but I think it is premature. The entire leak redounds too strongly in favor of the pro-abortion / democrat crowd. No leak and the decision coming on schedule would have been much worse for them as there would be nothing to do other than express anger. Right now they can believe protests and riots and fundraising might change the decision. That is motivation on the most sensitive issue they have. Democrats running for election could not have wished for anything better.
If we have to come up with a standard for when life begins, I would suggest that it be a standard based on human compassion and not scientific logic. The importance of protecting unborn life is not merely to protect defenseless gestating babies, it is to defend the sacredness of human life as a moral and legal concept.
That concept is under attack at both ends and from the middle. We saw the elderly deliberately left out of hospitals to die in nursing homes because their lives were considered unimportant. Some states push the upper limit of abortion ever further past birth. Ill health or infection now can cause you to lose your rights and be detained. Hospitals treat patients as if admittance to the hospital is a surrender of all their sovereignty over their own medical decisions and life.
These are all encroachments on the value and sanctity of life. If we surrender on one front, we lose on all. The end of that road is a state that determines where and how your life begins and ends with no human compassion whatsoever. We can see that now more clearly than at any time in our lifetimes.
"The importance of protecting unborn life is not merely to protect defenseless gestating babies, it is to defend the sacredness of human life as a moral and legal concept." A great comment and you put into words what I was feeling but couldn't express.
What? You don't like emanations from the penumbra?
My terribly cynical suspicion is that this leak was strategic. The actual decision handed down will be a typical kick the can down the road and not overturn the current status quo at all. This leak galvanizes otherwise completely unengaged democrats just as a historic midterm defeat was approaching.
Next, the reversal of what we are led to think would be the decision will generate just the sort of partisan controversy that keeps everyone distracted. The right will say the court was intimidated, the left will say they -should- be intimidated, etc.
I think it is even possible that the leak was orchestrated by a Trump appointed judge who is afraid to go along with the decision and afraid not to. Leak it and then let everyone think you were afraid of angry leftist rioters.
People who opposed abortion for many years are celebrating but I think it is premature. The entire leak redounds too strongly in favor of the pro-abortion / democrat crowd. No leak and the decision coming on schedule would have been much worse for them as there would be nothing to do other than express anger. Right now they can believe protests and riots and fundraising might change the decision. That is motivation on the most sensitive issue they have. Democrats running for election could not have wished for anything better.
If we have to come up with a standard for when life begins, I would suggest that it be a standard based on human compassion and not scientific logic. The importance of protecting unborn life is not merely to protect defenseless gestating babies, it is to defend the sacredness of human life as a moral and legal concept.
That concept is under attack at both ends and from the middle. We saw the elderly deliberately left out of hospitals to die in nursing homes because their lives were considered unimportant. Some states push the upper limit of abortion ever further past birth. Ill health or infection now can cause you to lose your rights and be detained. Hospitals treat patients as if admittance to the hospital is a surrender of all their sovereignty over their own medical decisions and life.
These are all encroachments on the value and sanctity of life. If we surrender on one front, we lose on all. The end of that road is a state that determines where and how your life begins and ends with no human compassion whatsoever. We can see that now more clearly than at any time in our lifetimes.
"The importance of protecting unborn life is not merely to protect defenseless gestating babies, it is to defend the sacredness of human life as a moral and legal concept." A great comment and you put into words what I was feeling but couldn't express.