That’s a really tough question. Right now, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the Mississippi case, and court watchers are parsing the justices’ questions for clues about where their thinking is going. This game of “Clue” is producing a lot of handwringing in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
October 11th, 2021 - 12:56 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
WSU coach’s odds of getting vax exemption don’t look good
WSU football coach Nick Rolovich could lose his job if he doesn’t comply with the vaccine mandate applicable to all state employees. Rolovich, a Catholic, has applied for a religious exemption, presumably on the grounds that fetal tissue was used in vaccine testing (although not in the vaccine[...]
October 1st, 2021 - 11:13 am § in Law and Courts
How to beat Texas’ anti-abortion law
Even though abortion is still a constitutional right, for now, the media give the impression Texas’ law against it is unassailable in the courts. For example, The Hill noted (here) the law’s novel approach of “private enforcement has thrown up procedural obstacles to” legal c[...]
September 17th, 2021 - 7:56 pm § in Humor
Texas women’s rights council
Just kidding. Texas Republicans aren’t like the Taliban. They let women leave. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 29th, 2021 - 11:49 am § in Politics
How to be a GOP candidate in 2021
Man, it isn’t easy. Nobody ever wrote a playbook for this. Let’s say you’re a clean-cut businessman (photo) who wants to run for governor in a staid and slightly blue-leaning state (e.g. Virginia) on traditional pro-business issues. This both gives you an advantage and puts you at [...]
July 22nd, 2021 - 11:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Overturn Roe v. Wade? You can ask.
“Mississippi’s attorney general urged the Supreme Court in a Thursday brief to overrule Roe v. Wade next term when the justices review Mississippi’s ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy,” The Hill reported on July 22, 2021. “Calling the court’s precedent[...]
March 23rd, 2021 - 8:48 pm § in Law and Courts
The cost of an unconstitutional law
“Louisiana’s taxpayers could be forced to pay nearly $9 million in legal expenses after the state’s failed effort to enforce a 2014 abortion law … nearly identical to a Texas abortion regulation … struck down by [the Supreme Court] in 2016,” CBS News reported on T[...]
September 18th, 2020 - 6:06 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Quick and dirty situation report: The Democrats’ options now
Democratic hopes that Justice Ruth Bader Ginbsburg would survive Trump’s presidency have vanished. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has already declared the “Merrick Garland rule” inoperative. He won’t wait for the election results to ram through a Trump-appointed replacemen[...]
Should we have a Forced Pregnancy Law?
So the Trumpies believe in forced pregnancy? If a woman is impregnated, does she now have to give birth? Who pays for this? Is she like a prisoner? Does the father now have legal responsibility for the baby? Does he have a choice if the mother does not want it? Does she pay her for […][...]
February 8th, 2020 - 11:15 pm § in Christianity, Hypocrisy
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: On abortion, the Quran Comes Close to Telling the Story of Life
Fundamentalist Christians say abortion is murder because life begins at fertilization. Did they learn this from the Quran? In western religions, divine revelations can not be updated. Jews, Christians, and Muslims .. each claim that the Torah, the Christian Bible or the Quran as the definitive wor[...]