The US supreme court leak shows that the levers of power are pulled by those with no skin in the game, at the expense of those with an entire uterus in it<\/p>
An American girl born this week will have fewer rights than an American girl born in 1973. This is the likely import of the leaked US supreme court draft opinion<\/a> on abortion rights \u2013 and cause for a huge thank-you-very-much to all those guys who suggested that women marching on Washington in January 2017 were \u201coverreacting\u201d to the election of Donald Trump. Please make sure to tell women again when they are being overemotional \u2013 even as they sit and watch one of Trump\u2019s justice picks scream and sob his way through his own confirmation hearings<\/a>. In the meantime, resign yourself to yet another \u201cquirk\u201d of the looking-glass world Trump has created. Of course \u2013 OF COURSE \u2013 women\u2019s access to abortion would end up being restricted or removed by the deliberate decisions of a man widely imagined to have personally helped to keep the Manhattan abortion sector afloat for decades.<\/p> I\u2019m kidding, of course! We have absolutely no idea whether abortion services have or haven\u2019t ever been accessed by anyone connected with a draft-avoider who described avoiding STDs in the 80s as \u201cmy personal Vietnam\u201d. \u201cThat\u2019s an interesting question,\u201d Trump replied<\/a> to the New York Times when asked, during the 2016 campaign, if he\u2019d ever been involved with a woman who had undergone a termination during their relationship. \u201cWhat\u2019s your next question?\u201d<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n