So — Let’s Talk About Abortion

If a report yesterday from Politico is to be believed, the Supreme Court is going to overturn both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey later this summer through their case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This draft opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito, and it’s believed that Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett will all go along with this — although it is not certain if Chief Justice Roberts will as well.

If both of these cases are overturned, abortion laws will be a matter of state legislatures — assuming the right to abortion is not codified into federal law at some point in the future. Of course, if state legislatures can be trusted with the responsibility of determining who does and does not have an abortion, one has to wonder why that responsibility cannot be placed on the induvial woman.

I do plan on writing more about the topic, covering all the issues I can find with the document, and writing about the nonsense of the anti-abortion movement more over this summer and in the runup to the mid-terms. However, before I do any of that, I think it is best for me to state what I think of abortion as a whole.

In my first book Ramblings of a Mad Man: Life as an Anarchist — written in 2019 when I was a right-wing libertarian as opposed to the solid leftist I am now — I included a chapter declaring…