Comments on: Really. http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2006/02/24/really/ suck it up, buttercup... Thu, 24 May 2012 01:08:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: steward http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2006/02/24/really/comment-page-1/#comment-1706 steward Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:53:31 +0000 http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2006/02/24/really/#comment-1706 Quit bitching and moaning and start publishing info on abortifacients. You can't do a thing about what South Dakota does... but you -can- start making sure info gets onto the web about things like the acupressure point that induces a safe miscarriage, and herbs that people have used for millennia for the same thing. On the legal front in the US, though... personally, having seen Roberts' decisions so far, I think Bush and the fundamentalist right is in for a big surprise when and if the South Dakota law makes it to the US Supreme Court. US Chief Justice Roberts is a <i>legal</i> conservative, which is far different from an <i>ideological</i> conservative. Legal conservatives don't like changes in established precedent, and they tend to let their legal conservatism override any ideological beliefs they have. Justice Alito hasn't participated in any Supreme Court decisions yet, so he's still an unknown... but that cuts both ways. Quit bitching and moaning and start publishing info on abortifacients. You can’t do a thing about what South Dakota does… but you -can- start making sure info gets onto the web about things like the acupressure point that induces a safe miscarriage, and herbs that people have used for millennia for the same thing.

On the legal front in the US, though… personally, having seen Roberts’ decisions so far, I think Bush and the fundamentalist right is in for a big surprise when and if the South Dakota law makes it to the US Supreme Court. US Chief Justice Roberts is a legal conservative, which is far different from an ideological conservative. Legal conservatives don’t like changes in established precedent, and they tend to let their legal conservatism override any ideological beliefs they have.

Justice Alito hasn’t participated in any Supreme Court decisions yet, so he’s still an unknown… but that cuts both ways.

]]> By: R. http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2006/02/24/really/comment-page-1/#comment-1679 R. Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:30:24 +0000 http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2006/02/24/really/#comment-1679 I see it as insuring a supply of future American soldiers to take over Canada and their oil reserves ;) In some ways this is a win for state's rights (even if they only got it as a result of the federal government supporting their anti-abortion positions.) I'm still wondering why a supposedly limited government is even involved in what seems to me to be a family matter - but power must be asserted or lost and it would be uncharacteristic of leadership to miss any scrap of opportunity. I see it as insuring a supply of future American soldiers to take over Canada and their oil reserves ;)

In some ways this is a win for state’s rights (even if they only got it as a result of the federal government supporting their anti-abortion positions.) I’m still wondering why a supposedly limited government is even involved in what seems to me to be a family matter – but power must be asserted or lost and it would be uncharacteristic of leadership to miss any scrap of opportunity.

]]> By: Cathy http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2006/02/24/really/comment-page-1/#comment-1678 Cathy Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:13:05 +0000 http://miserablebliss.ca/blog/2006/02/24/really/#comment-1678 It scares me to think that roe vs. wade will be overturned and the right to choose a thing of the past in every state! It scares me to think that roe vs. wade will be overturned and the right to choose a thing of the past in every state!

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