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Behind the leaked decision that undermines a woman’s right to her privacy

For what it’s worth, my position on privacy – which is constitutionally protected – is that God never deprived anyone of freewill. The wise guys we call our “Founders” knew this. The creator installed self-determinism in us all.

At least to the extent that adults develop reasonable intelligence, we are free to choose. And when this abuts the law, free people will often act lawlessly. That Christians believe it’s within their authority to enact ordinances that deprive people otherwise, is presumptuous to the point of blasphemy.

The notion that a few have the right to legislate morality is repugnant.

All of the moralism aside, the politics of the moment are interesting. If one peeks behind the curtain of outrage and polarization, there’s a facet that may prove important for democracy and freedom.

Liberals tend to be lazy, living freely as long as their lifestyles aren’t restricted. Liberals also tend to act reasonably. NORML is a great example. The fruits of 50 years of intelligent reasoning are being enacted all over the place. An unpopular notion was popularized. This was not so much a moral issue as a recreational one.

Morally, liberals tend to organize and act when threatened. They wield power, only under duress. Deprivation produces militant resistance. See anything to do with civil liberties in the 20th century, or since the Civil War for that matter.

Today, SCOTUS may have provided the distress required for thinking, liberal-minded voters to address some issues.

And SCOTUS may be right: Legislation is needed to fix “the right to choose” as much as it is to repair immigration law and other social issues like healthcare.

If pain and fear is what it takes for Democrats to get busy. So be it.

Something else doesn’t make sense. Putting on one’s thinking cap to look at abortion rights from a MAGA perspective, it is a surprise: The militant promotion to strike down Roe v. Wade.

Spoiler alert. It’s a little irreverent. This is: An afterthought that thinking people may enjoy.

Why is it that overtly racist conservatives, who fear immigration tilts voting leftwards, are so bent on preventing people of color and low income from reducing the numbers of children they bear?

After all, women from those constituencies who vote mostly in the liberal spectrum, receive by far the most reproductive intervention1.