Thank You, Michael Moore…. As an 88 year old woman, my horror at the idea that the Supreme Court did what it has done and that some members lied when they said what they would do if confirmed…. Is growing…. 1982, Paul Newman in “The Verdict”….. The nurse, “Who ARE these Men….” (And one! Woman….) who determine MY fate as a woman?!
Most certainly they should. They bring shame on us all. As does the Roberts SCOTUS, the most corrupt court in our history. And all the people who voted T**** into office, giving him the chance to change the court to take away women's rights to their own autonomy. For these Georgia legislators, a charge of second degree manslaughter is warranted.
Just wanted you to know that abortion was not illegal in the United States and was performed by midwives until about 1850.
At about that time the American Medical Association was formed. These new “doctors “ began to take over deliveries from the midwives. They soon realized that they would have more business if they could stop abortions from occurring. They were instrumental in passing anti-abortion laws.
Therefore, we DO want to go back! Back to a time when it was nobody’s business but the woman,
what she did with her body! Check it out yourself.
The plight of women in America is real and enormously cynical. Weak men making decisions exposing their cowardice and claiming it as power. The table must be turned in this historic election and show the cowardly villains on the Supreme Court, Donald Trump and "his" political party that the majority still believes our humanity is still a guiding principle. A vote for Kamala Harris will be a beginning to preserve that ideal.
Amber's story reminds me of my Aunt, who died in the 1930s, long before abortion was legalized. Maybe she died of a miscarriage, or maybe a botched abortion, nobody told the truth about such matters in those days, but her death certificate mentioned septicemia. She left three children, a husband, and her ex-husband. Her two sons were raised by their fathers, but her daughter first went to live with her grandmother, who soon thereafter died of cancer. So the daughter, my cousin, came to live with my birth family for seven or so years. Well into her old age, that daughter wondered, what ever happened to my mother, that she died then? No one could or would tell her. She felt like a motherless child for all of her life.
Any fool should know that if something having to do with medicine and health of women for many years is suddenly made illegal for no sound medical reason except for the whim of middle-aged men, women will die as a result. The not so funny thing is, as a woman, I got used to the idea that my body parts were MINE! Little did I know that I had to live like an evangelical Christian from now on! My sense of my own spirituality isn't good enough. Unfortunately, every middle-aged man in America is above me – by several rungs. I'm not childbearing anymore, but will doctors be fearful that I want to have an abortion if I need – say – a hysterectomy? Apparently my body and everything in it isn't really MINE anymore. Kamala Harris said it: we are not going back!
At least there are more women doctors these days. It is lamentable, however, that the corporations that have taken over their practice, dictate their servitude, since it is prohibitively expensive to OPEN a practice with the kind of debt one accrues getting there.
Telling REAL stories of REAL women who suffered and died as a result of these cruel decisions is SO important....our hearts need to be opened and broken...and after we grieve we need to TAKE SERIOUS ACTION to stop all the people and institutions that make this possible!!! Thank you for this powerful article!
As a PS….. Those Supreme Court, Senators and House of Representative members who voted “against women” are complicit in ALL the women who die or are “done” for life. My grief in writing this about my country’s leaders is profound.
I repeatedly gave every Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. The Democrats are now campaigning on protecting a woman's right to choose when they're clearly to blame for letting Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court in the first place.
If you really want to stop the corruption, you're going to have to show the American People concrete proof that both major political parties have sold them out. My book does exactly that and I'm willing to give it away for free. (There is a link for a free digital copy of my book in this post.)
My name is Ted Martin. I have finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
P.S. I blame the Federalist Society for the corruption in the federal judicial system. The six so-called conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, and all the Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee are members of the Federalist Society. Donald Trump picked “his” judicial nominees from lists provided by the Federalist Society.
I didn’t know that the Democrats were in on it until I tried to give them proof of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. If you would like to read about their reprehensible conduct, you can skip ahead to the Postscript on page 221 of my book. But, by all means, read the rest of the book.
The corruption is undeniable. The judges in both of my cases incorporated the defendant’s fraudulent statements into their opinions even after I pointed the fraud in every brief that I filed. These “judges” are clearly taking dictation from corporate defense counsel without even reading the plaintiff’s briefs.
OK, the lawmakers are culpable and uncaring, but what about the religious beliefs, historical background and community of faith(s) that embrace, enable and tolerate such anti-women, anti-fact agendas? When are the churches and clerics going to be held accountable by their congregations for practicing such cruelty?
Such 'religous' groups and so forth need to follow the separation of church and state. If such are designated as 'charitable or church' under tax laws - that status should be removed once they become otherwise.
I'm assuming of course, that churches in the US are exempt?
Yes, that would certainly be one helpful approach in reining in "political" preaching and keeping religious belief separate from civic duty. Getting the congregations to keep their private religious beliefs apart from women's rights and abjure voting for faith-sanctioned lawmakers is the root problem - and far more difficult to resolve in a media-spin and misinformation environment.
Your poster should include more faces. Every doctor or medical personnel with authority in that hospital should be on there as well. They too, murdered this woman. As a woman who nearly died of an ectopic pregnancy in 1987, as I bled out and doctors slut shamed me and tried to find a non-Catholic hospital that would remove my ruptured fallopian tube, I am sickened, saddened and disgusted every single day by these abortion bans. But I hold all these feelings as well as shame. Not my shame but shame at the doctors and hospital that let Amber die. “ It is not clear from the records available why doctors waited to provide a D&C to Thurman, though the summary report shows they discussed the procedure at least twice in the hours before they finally did.” (https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death)
The legislatures that banned abortion in Georgia don’t care about women and don’t even
have a basic understanding of women’s medical care. Doctors in Georgia claim to do both. But they didn’t because they were afraid of powerful men. You know who’s not afraid of powerful men? Me, and millions of women like me. You know who would go to prison to save another human’s life? Me, and millions of people like me. The weak, ineffectual medical staff and administrators at Piedmont Henry Hospital are just as guilty of murdering Amber as are the legislators.
The medical community bears responsibility as well, but IMO theirs is for craven cowardice. They should be called out publicly as a warning to people of who they should avoid if they find themselves in need of care. Not much anyone can do about an ER incident, but you can try to get to a hospital where the OB/ GYN consult isn't a chicken$hit. Don't get me started about the Catholic Church. Gave that up when I was 13 and never looked back.
Reading about that poor woman's death while medical professionals stood about wringing their hands - shocking is the only word. This happened in the USA!!??- was my first thought. How? Why?
You have to live there for a few years. Watch Michael's Sicko, nothing has changed. We're so lucky to be back in Canada though my provincial government is doing its damnedest to follow the MAGAs down the insurance industry rabbit hole.
Michael , as a Wiman it Totally discusts me that Other Woman are against another fellow Woman getting urgent Reproductive Care, to me that is the height of betrayal of your Fellow a woman! The idiot Men you can expect who are holy as anyone and expect Woman folk to stay in the Kitchen with the kids ! How dare these selfish crule people Lord over anyone and it’s a horrible ,horrible tragedy that ANY Woman be denied the Care they desrve as a Human being !
Mike talks about the future, and the future talks back! — see Thom Ecks’s latest installment of “Notes from a Future” entitled “My Father’s Child.”
It recounts the imagined future history of how, in 2026, under a second Trump administration, a seventh-grader impregnated by her rapist of a father is denied an abortion ... and justice.
One doesn't have to like Hillary Clinton to know that had she been elected the Terrible Three Trump supremes would not have been appointed to SCOTUS. Anyone who thinks that the Presidential choice is between two evils should repeat over and over these four words: reproductive choice, judicial appointments.. If we're lucky Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito may leave/be forced out of SCOTUS during Harris' tenure. Then the court will have a sane/humane majority. Don't you envy Canada (God's frozen people, many are called but few are frozen) where Supreme Court Justices retire after age 75? Keep up the good work Michael!
At that time many who were tasked to make a judgement on them assumed they'd not have the gall to lie, giving benefit of the doubt.
But now they know, and we know, that the norms we assumed, that were assumed in the spirit of good will - were never theirs to begin with.
It's a lesson that if not learned at this point, will spell the end of not only norms - but the undermining of institutions, free elections, and more. Don't assume anymore.
Yes they should. They know women are going to die if abortion is not safe and legal. And they don't care. It's a form of femicide.
Yes, it is murder.
Thank you for bringing attention to this. It is horrific!
Thank You, Michael Moore…. As an 88 year old woman, my horror at the idea that the Supreme Court did what it has done and that some members lied when they said what they would do if confirmed…. Is growing…. 1982, Paul Newman in “The Verdict”….. The nurse, “Who ARE these Men….” (And one! Woman….) who determine MY fate as a woman?!
Most certainly they should. They bring shame on us all. As does the Roberts SCOTUS, the most corrupt court in our history. And all the people who voted T**** into office, giving him the chance to change the court to take away women's rights to their own autonomy. For these Georgia legislators, a charge of second degree manslaughter is warranted.
Read my post today. It's worse than you think. The court's are corrupt by design and I can say for a fact that the Democrats are in on it too.
Just wanted you to know that abortion was not illegal in the United States and was performed by midwives until about 1850.
At about that time the American Medical Association was formed. These new “doctors “ began to take over deliveries from the midwives. They soon realized that they would have more business if they could stop abortions from occurring. They were instrumental in passing anti-abortion laws.
Therefore, we DO want to go back! Back to a time when it was nobody’s business but the woman,
what she did with her body! Check it out yourself.
Louise
The plight of women in America is real and enormously cynical. Weak men making decisions exposing their cowardice and claiming it as power. The table must be turned in this historic election and show the cowardly villains on the Supreme Court, Donald Trump and "his" political party that the majority still believes our humanity is still a guiding principle. A vote for Kamala Harris will be a beginning to preserve that ideal.
Amber's story reminds me of my Aunt, who died in the 1930s, long before abortion was legalized. Maybe she died of a miscarriage, or maybe a botched abortion, nobody told the truth about such matters in those days, but her death certificate mentioned septicemia. She left three children, a husband, and her ex-husband. Her two sons were raised by their fathers, but her daughter first went to live with her grandmother, who soon thereafter died of cancer. So the daughter, my cousin, came to live with my birth family for seven or so years. Well into her old age, that daughter wondered, what ever happened to my mother, that she died then? No one could or would tell her. She felt like a motherless child for all of her life.
Any fool should know that if something having to do with medicine and health of women for many years is suddenly made illegal for no sound medical reason except for the whim of middle-aged men, women will die as a result. The not so funny thing is, as a woman, I got used to the idea that my body parts were MINE! Little did I know that I had to live like an evangelical Christian from now on! My sense of my own spirituality isn't good enough. Unfortunately, every middle-aged man in America is above me – by several rungs. I'm not childbearing anymore, but will doctors be fearful that I want to have an abortion if I need – say – a hysterectomy? Apparently my body and everything in it isn't really MINE anymore. Kamala Harris said it: we are not going back!
At least there are more women doctors these days. It is lamentable, however, that the corporations that have taken over their practice, dictate their servitude, since it is prohibitively expensive to OPEN a practice with the kind of debt one accrues getting there.
Telling REAL stories of REAL women who suffered and died as a result of these cruel decisions is SO important....our hearts need to be opened and broken...and after we grieve we need to TAKE SERIOUS ACTION to stop all the people and institutions that make this possible!!! Thank you for this powerful article!
As a PS….. Those Supreme Court, Senators and House of Representative members who voted “against women” are complicit in ALL the women who die or are “done” for life. My grief in writing this about my country’s leaders is profound.
Mr. Moore,
I repeatedly gave every Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. The Democrats are now campaigning on protecting a woman's right to choose when they're clearly to blame for letting Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court in the first place.
If you really want to stop the corruption, you're going to have to show the American People concrete proof that both major political parties have sold them out. My book does exactly that and I'm willing to give it away for free. (There is a link for a free digital copy of my book in this post.)
My name is Ted Martin. I have finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
If you want a government that actually acts in your best interests, I urge you and everyone you know to read my book as soon as possible. You can get a digital copy of my book free of charge at the link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vaMH1riLodzOfQn0kI7ow0RDrPM0NqE/view?usp=sharing
P.S. I blame the Federalist Society for the corruption in the federal judicial system. The six so-called conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, and all the Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee are members of the Federalist Society. Donald Trump picked “his” judicial nominees from lists provided by the Federalist Society.
I didn’t know that the Democrats were in on it until I tried to give them proof of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. If you would like to read about their reprehensible conduct, you can skip ahead to the Postscript on page 221 of my book. But, by all means, read the rest of the book.
The corruption is undeniable. The judges in both of my cases incorporated the defendant’s fraudulent statements into their opinions even after I pointed the fraud in every brief that I filed. These “judges” are clearly taking dictation from corporate defense counsel without even reading the plaintiff’s briefs.
OK, the lawmakers are culpable and uncaring, but what about the religious beliefs, historical background and community of faith(s) that embrace, enable and tolerate such anti-women, anti-fact agendas? When are the churches and clerics going to be held accountable by their congregations for practicing such cruelty?
Such 'religous' groups and so forth need to follow the separation of church and state. If such are designated as 'charitable or church' under tax laws - that status should be removed once they become otherwise.
I'm assuming of course, that churches in the US are exempt?
Yes, that would certainly be one helpful approach in reining in "political" preaching and keeping religious belief separate from civic duty. Getting the congregations to keep their private religious beliefs apart from women's rights and abjure voting for faith-sanctioned lawmakers is the root problem - and far more difficult to resolve in a media-spin and misinformation environment.
Your poster should include more faces. Every doctor or medical personnel with authority in that hospital should be on there as well. They too, murdered this woman. As a woman who nearly died of an ectopic pregnancy in 1987, as I bled out and doctors slut shamed me and tried to find a non-Catholic hospital that would remove my ruptured fallopian tube, I am sickened, saddened and disgusted every single day by these abortion bans. But I hold all these feelings as well as shame. Not my shame but shame at the doctors and hospital that let Amber die. “ It is not clear from the records available why doctors waited to provide a D&C to Thurman, though the summary report shows they discussed the procedure at least twice in the hours before they finally did.” (https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death)
The legislatures that banned abortion in Georgia don’t care about women and don’t even
have a basic understanding of women’s medical care. Doctors in Georgia claim to do both. But they didn’t because they were afraid of powerful men. You know who’s not afraid of powerful men? Me, and millions of women like me. You know who would go to prison to save another human’s life? Me, and millions of people like me. The weak, ineffectual medical staff and administrators at Piedmont Henry Hospital are just as guilty of murdering Amber as are the legislators.
First, do no fucking harm.
The medical community bears responsibility as well, but IMO theirs is for craven cowardice. They should be called out publicly as a warning to people of who they should avoid if they find themselves in need of care. Not much anyone can do about an ER incident, but you can try to get to a hospital where the OB/ GYN consult isn't a chicken$hit. Don't get me started about the Catholic Church. Gave that up when I was 13 and never looked back.
Do No Harm.
Reading about that poor woman's death while medical professionals stood about wringing their hands - shocking is the only word. This happened in the USA!!??- was my first thought. How? Why?
You have to live there for a few years. Watch Michael's Sicko, nothing has changed. We're so lucky to be back in Canada though my provincial government is doing its damnedest to follow the MAGAs down the insurance industry rabbit hole.
Michael , as a Wiman it Totally discusts me that Other Woman are against another fellow Woman getting urgent Reproductive Care, to me that is the height of betrayal of your Fellow a woman! The idiot Men you can expect who are holy as anyone and expect Woman folk to stay in the Kitchen with the kids ! How dare these selfish crule people Lord over anyone and it’s a horrible ,horrible tragedy that ANY Woman be denied the Care they desrve as a Human being !
Women are not humans. This is a mis-conception(!)
A woman is NOTHING but a youth hostel with ovaries.
If that's supposed to be sarcasm, it's much too offensive to succeed as such. If it's not...
Sandy - Apologies. It WAS intended as sarcasm. Sorry I offended you. No intent to be offensive. Repeat: Apologies.
A sincere thanks for your reply. Your apology is very considerate. I am more than happy to accept.
Mike talks about the future, and the future talks back! — see Thom Ecks’s latest installment of “Notes from a Future” entitled “My Father’s Child.”
It recounts the imagined future history of how, in 2026, under a second Trump administration, a seventh-grader impregnated by her rapist of a father is denied an abortion ... and justice.
It’s free and you can read it here: https://tecks.substack.com/p/my-fathers-child
One doesn't have to like Hillary Clinton to know that had she been elected the Terrible Three Trump supremes would not have been appointed to SCOTUS. Anyone who thinks that the Presidential choice is between two evils should repeat over and over these four words: reproductive choice, judicial appointments.. If we're lucky Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito may leave/be forced out of SCOTUS during Harris' tenure. Then the court will have a sane/humane majority. Don't you envy Canada (God's frozen people, many are called but few are frozen) where Supreme Court Justices retire after age 75? Keep up the good work Michael!
The Three lied under oath.
That's your so-called Supreme Court.
At that time many who were tasked to make a judgement on them assumed they'd not have the gall to lie, giving benefit of the doubt.
But now they know, and we know, that the norms we assumed, that were assumed in the spirit of good will - were never theirs to begin with.
It's a lesson that if not learned at this point, will spell the end of not only norms - but the undermining of institutions, free elections, and more. Don't assume anymore.