That’s where I concluded I’d struggle. If I thought I’d live forever, that’s one thing. With trisomy21, you don’t know how independent the child will be capable of being. And even at the least limited, there’s concern.

A friend of mine’s mom took in a guy named Dustin as a favor after Dustin’s mom passed. Dustin was an adult, but mentally handicapped. Essentially a perpetual 8 year old intellectually. She was close friends with Dustin’s mom, and knew Dustin all his life. They thought they could make it work, but the challenge was too much and now Dustin lives in a home. He has no blood family to care for him, and gets to spend a few days with my friend’s mom around holidays.

I’ve never had a conversation with Dustin on his happiness, but it’s not a situation I’d ever want to put my child or their siblings in should my wife and/or I suffer and early demise. And that’s assuming best case scenario where true independence is possible. A group home, all alone isn’t a situation I could feel comfortable subjecting my child to in his 40s or 50s.

I'm a firm believer that Roe was a primary cause of the dramatic downturn in violence we experienced in the early 90s.  Hundreds of thousands if not millions of unwanted children who never were forced to exist with mothers who couldn't care/didn't want them, and turned to the streets to survive. 

I would not be surprised at all if we didn't see a big crime spike in 2040 as a direct result of Roe being overturned and the 20 or so states that will immediately act to ban all abortions.

Isn't that ambiguity the challenge?  I'm sure you and I agree that abortion at 40 weeks on a healthy child and mother would be murder, but there are people who believe that the "fetus" is not protected until it exits the woman.  Common law defined life as starting when the baby can be felt, which generally aligns with 13 weeks or so.  Until Roe was decided, every state in the country either banned abortion outright or had severe limitations on it.  I don't think you can define when a fetus becomes a human life, or if you can, it's entirely based on your own opinion and conjecture.  And if no fetus is a human life, people convicted of killing pregnant women and their children need to have their sentences adjusted.

We know what a man or a woman is, but our newest justice felt that was a difficult idea to articulate.  If she can't determine what a woman is, how can she be expected to determine the moment life starts?

If you read Alito's opinion, his argument is that abortion was never a protected right from the constitution, and cites 800 years of common law and each state in the union's law up until the 14th amendment and at the time Roe was decided.  He also goes to great lengths to negate any claims that this ruling impacts any other notion other than abortion, as both Roe and Casey already identity the unique circumstance of their decisions in determining when potential human life can be extinguished.  This is a wholly unique subcategory of law separate from the right of consenting adults to fornicate or marry whom they choose. 

I support abortion, but I'm looking for the pundits who have actually read Alito's opinion and can counter the arguments he made there.  It's a tough job to do, and one I have yet to find in the numerous articles I've read on the topic this morning.

I'd argue it's not even that simple.  It's about the Court creating a right in opposition to 600 years of English common law and nearly 200 years of American law to create a right that was immediately re-worked 20 years later in Casey and still is without legal precedent.  Why is viability the line in the sand, where does that premise come from, and what statute exists to define viability. 

I feel horrible for the teenagers and women in Southern states that will soon be legally denied all access to abortion.  There is no doubt that at least 13 states will ban all abortion the moment this decision is made public.  But I also hold accountable the progressive states that all but legalized infanticide in the past couple years in their desire to move the bar ever leftward. 

I hope congress can codify abortion into law as nearly every western nation has without relying on the concept of viability or a right to abortion inferred from a right to privacy.  But I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.  I don't think it will have much of an impact on the midterms.  The left has been predicting this outcome for decades, and the aftermath won't align with their doom and gloom.  Mississippi is going to be Mississippi and New York is going to be New York.  With recession on the horizon and inflation at record numbers, convincing the public that abortions after 15 weeks are necessary for a free society and the biggest issue of our time is going to be a hard sell.  Especially when most of Europe and the world is already aligned with the outcome of Alito's decision assuming it is in fact real and 4 other justices sign on.

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Let me know if these are the same guys. Their Duff was an extra 100 lbs, but their Axl was better than the one I’ve seen on stage the past few years.