re: "Do We Have the Supreme Court We Deserve?" (The New York Times, December 30, 2021)
Should the current US Supreme Court, contrived for exactly that purpose, slaughter Roe v. Wade, the outcome might well prove positive. It will force those who recognize that women are human persons with rights in need of protection to seek more solid legal protections for those rights.
An end to Roe v. Wade at the brutal hands of the religiously inspired unreason that founds Texas's S.B.8 and that is apparent in the equally faith-based unreason of Mississippi's restrictive abortion law might prompt a healthy debate about what it means to be a human being, which every foetus is, and what it means to be a human person, which no foetus ever is.
Better still, it might push those who respect the rights of women, who are actual human persons, to work to elect politicians who will pass laws to protect those rights from attack by thinly disguised religious bigotry.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/supreme-court-republican.html#commentsContainer&permid=116126133:116126133
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