One of my brothers like to throw the statement about not being able to legislate morals into any argument he wasn't winning. I loved to take the air out of his bags by pointing out that legislating morals wasn't the point. The point is that we can and do legislate behavior. Morals may become part of the argument, but the case is won or…
One of my brothers like to throw the statement about not being able to legislate morals into any argument he wasn't winning. I loved to take the air out of his bags by pointing out that legislating morals wasn't the point. The point is that we can and do legislate behavior. Morals may become part of the argument, but the case is won or lost by proving wrongful behavior. We're trying.
And yes, no state had laws relating to abortion in the year before mid 1850s (corrected typo). It was up to women whether or not to get an abortion until the takeover of health care by male physicians, who began to stake out markers in the mid-50s.
And that is what this (and schools and corporations and all the rest of the "issues" being thrown at us, and the rights we're being told aren't rights are all about. Power. Control.
We're seeing it all laid out in the Jan 6th Committee Hearings. Yes, that's about the insurrection. But it is mostly about power and who gets to wield it. The good news is that the Republicans are running out of targets and are starting to tear at each other. Hope, hope, hope, hope.
One of my brothers like to throw the statement about not being able to legislate morals into any argument he wasn't winning. I loved to take the air out of his bags by pointing out that legislating morals wasn't the point. The point is that we can and do legislate behavior. Morals may become part of the argument, but the case is won or lost by proving wrongful behavior. We're trying.
And yes, no state had laws relating to abortion in the year before mid 1850s (corrected typo). It was up to women whether or not to get an abortion until the takeover of health care by male physicians, who began to stake out markers in the mid-50s.
And that is what this (and schools and corporations and all the rest of the "issues" being thrown at us, and the rights we're being told aren't rights are all about. Power. Control.
We're seeing it all laid out in the Jan 6th Committee Hearings. Yes, that's about the insurrection. But it is mostly about power and who gets to wield it. The good news is that the Republicans are running out of targets and are starting to tear at each other. Hope, hope, hope, hope.
Very well put. I still hope. Sometimes It feels abusive. But I keep on hoping or I will go crazy with despair.