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[fpb]

Funny how less than a week ago the Supreme Court of the United States was the archdemon of every republican blog, and people were queuing up to explain to the poor ignorant judges how mistaken it was to call carbon dioxide a pollutant - while all the "progressives", with the New Jerk Dimes in the van, rejoiced and hailed. Now all of a sudden most of those same blogs (not all, of course, since there is hardly a complete overlap between supporters of big business and enemies of abortion) are jumping up and down with glee at the unexpected victory of the ban on partial-birth abortion, while the NYT rages and spits poison. Such is life; hero one day, hate object the next. At any rate, I assume that the prestigious, well remunerated and probably well served nature of their posts can protect the Justices' little hearts from any sense of bitterness.

Moral of the story: there is no issue, however important, that does not have at least a little of the pantomime about it.

Comments

[mathiasroesel.livejournal.com]

Do you think those decisions will affect ways of lifes in general and yours in particular?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Yes. Both of them. The struggle about supposedly man-made global warming has a massive impact on economic growth and procedures around the world, though no doubt corruption will take care of it that the impact is not as huge as it would be if all the required measures were applied thoroughly. And I pointed out in my essay on abortion, sexual revolution and American politics - http://fpb.livejournal.com/228779.html - there is evidence that pro-abortion politics may be becoming more aggressive, more internationalized and more bullying, exactly in response to the visible decline of the popularity of abortion in the USA. It may affect me in particular because if there is one European country where the abortion laws might be questioned sooner than elsewhere, it is Italy, with its inevitable majority of Catholics among voters and its deep concern with demographic collapse.

[theswordmaiden.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you just said here or in your main entry. When people say "Supreme Court" my eyes glaze over. ;)

But I also read your link to your essay and it is excellent! Abortion is one of those things that I can't quite decide on, but I do have stronger opinions about the sexual revolution and I hadn't quite connected it to abortion before.