Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Will the Supreme Court Allow Louisiana to Protect Women?


[Conservatives need to recognize that liberals over time tend to morph into ultraconservatives.  In the 19th Century,   Friedrich Nietzsche noticed that:    "Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions." ]

The 14th Amendment requires states to guarantee "the equal protection of the laws." Unfortunately ultraconservative Supreme Court justices such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg don’t believe states should be allowed to protect women from unsafely operated abortion clinics. Supreme Court justices are considering Louisiana's Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which requires that abortionists in the state have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility
Yes, I said "ultraconservative". I know people such as Ginsburg like to call themselves "liberals", but their attitude to abortion regulations is closer to "ultraconservative" than to "liberal". During the last century "liberals" have attempted to enact regulations to protect individuals from unsafe, unfair, etc. business practices. "Ultraconservatives" have attempted to prevent such regulations or ask the Supreme Court to overturn them.
The ultraconservatives who oppose abortion regulations are like the ultraconservatives who opposed regulations to protect employees from unsafe working conditions a century ago. The probusiness ultraconservative justices oppose any attempt to regulate abortions like probusiness ultraconservative justices a century ago opposed any attempt to regulate working conditions

The liberal mindset believes changes will help.  The ultraconservative mindset cannot conceive of doing anything differently.
Ultraconservatives like abortions because abortions reduce the surplus population: The deaths of women from abortions also reduce the surplus population

How many more women will have to die from carelessly performed abortions before heartless probusiness ultraconservative justices allow states to strictly regulate this  potentially fatal surgery.

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