SCOTUS decisions: rage and grief the order of the day

In the last 24 hours, the Supreme Court has made it easier to kill people as long as it's with a gun, but it has barred women from removing from their own bodies embryonic or fetal material not viable as human beings-- even if caused by rape or incest. SCOTUS has taken a wildly absolutist …

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SCOTUS abortion decision absolutely right

It's hard not to be elated by the Supreme Court's five-to-three ruling today on the Texas abortion law H.B.2.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it all in her one paragraph concurring opinion. The law dictated that an abortion clinic needed the buildings, equipment and staffing for a hospital-style ambulatory surgery center and required doctors to have …

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Gomez v. Markey a study in contrasts

It's easy to think of ourselves as thoughtful deliberative voters with no single litmus issue for judging a candidate, but that theoretical criterion came up short last night in the final moments of the Senate debate between Gabriel Gomez and Ed Markey. The defining (litmus, if you will) issue for many became preserving or overturning Roe …

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