Whether you think it's right or wrong to kill babies in the womb, it's probably a safe bet to say that most everybody thinks abortion's a surgical procedure. So, in order to make the procedure or murder safe, it makes sense to force abortion clinics to operate under regulations for "ambulatory surgical centers."
Well, sense perhaps to anyone but the Supreme Court of the United States, who've ruled along partisan lines to overturn Texas legislation that would have acted to reduce the possibility of Kermit Gosnell-style Houses of Horror occurring in the Lone Star State.
Regardless of SCOTUS' belief that abortion is a constitutional right, really, the framers of the Constitution would have thought that? what's on display here is a radical disconnect between a politicized Supreme Court and what the people of a state believe is right and true.
Nothing, per the SCOTUS majority, must stand against the sacred right of abortion, not even normal surgical center regulations. Texans, via their legislature, think otherwise and at some point there has to be a clash, or constitutional crisis.
The bottom line is this. Citizens should not obey unjust laws and, as a matter fact, people won't obey laws that they don't believe in. Any court which attempts to impose them becomes irrelevant at best, or a touchstone of anger, division and conflict at worst. With this latest ruling, it seems we're on course for the latter.
No wonder Texans are talking about leaving the Union and, in case you wondered, the Lone Star State has roughly the same GDP as Australia and more people.
Texit,
LSP
We just bought 9 acres in Kerrville, TX. If Texas leaves the union before we get down there to build our compound, that means we'll have to get a visa issued by a foreign government just to set foot on our property. Our foreign property.
ReplyDeleteActually, that doesn't sound all that bad. Can you conceal carry a big hairy roscoe in The Federation of Texas (or whatever you guys are going to call your new country)?
Sure you can, Fredd. In fact you can open carry your Magnum, now that we've gotten rid of some out of date laws.
ReplyDeleteI can only hope that Robert E. Lee will be on the Texas $1000 banknote, sitting proudly astride Traveler. I'm sure that the DLC will be folded into the official Army of Texas.
ReplyDeleteYour welcome to join the Commonwealth.
ReplyDeleteHow is Texas' cricket team?
I'd be very surprised if The General wasn't on our currency, LL, and I see the DLC playing it's part with the rest of the AOT. Maybe a small part, maybe a large one, we'll see how Winged Victory favors the Cause.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anonymous. We'll have to catch up on the cricket thing...
ReplyDeleteNo cricket around here, except among some Indians who play in the park where I walk the dogs. A little more widespread are some rugby teams, at college level, tho it's not like watching Aussie pro players.
ReplyDeleteI can only hope Louisiana would join Texas. I doubt it; but I could hope...
ReplyDeleteSorry if this comment shows twice, but it said the field was blank?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I was commenting that I could only wish that Louisiana would join Texas. I doubt it, but a girl can hope.
A Texit might actually get me to immigrate there. Assuming of course that all the hippies in Austin vacate the premises to points West forthwith.
ReplyDeleteHowever, R.E. Lee, while a masterful general (Gettysburg notwithstanding), fought for one of the worst causes any man ever has. And don't give me any of the that 'state's rights', Lost Cause, B.S. Cloaking a defense of slavery with state rights is still defending slavery. A real Texan, Sam Houston, had it right and knew that the Confederacy was a bad idea and had no part of it.
We must never lose hope, Linda!
ReplyDeleteLee was quite a general, Theodore, but I've never been able to account for G/burg. Strange and uncharacteristic.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right, Austin might have to move, maybe to some place that's lying on a fault line. Enjoy that sustainable kimchi while you can, kids.
LSP - in re Lee: some historians look to him falling off his horse in the week or so prior that left him banged up, hurting, and not thinking right. I, for one, put it all under hubris. He was so used to winning and out thinking the Union generals that he thought his men could do the impossible. Served him right and thank goodness.
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