Musical interlude of the day

Eccles suggests Handal's Alabama chorus, but I prefer Lynyrd Skynyrd:




yeah, those damn rednecks are at it again.

as for the Catholic bishops, well some are quietly approving of these bills: very quietly of course.

Most are silent as usual, except for those in Tennesee who would oppose such a law in their state.

Too bad this dangerous rebel is no longer with us:




the bad news: it probably won't stop any woman who is desperate to get an abortion. So expect lots of sob stories to be printed in the MSM. I was a doc before Roe V Wade and we saw lots of botched abortions, so expect sob stories like the case in Ireland who died of sepsis from a botched second trimester sex selection abortion and the death was blamed on the lack of an abortion law, details of course left out.

so women who really want an abortion will find a way to do it.

But it will slow down women who panic and force them to think of what they are doing, and maybe strenghten them to oppose their family and boyfriends who are pushing them to abort.

the Democrats are pushing abortion up to and after birth (i.e. they voted against the "born alive" bill, meaning you could let survivors of abortion in the utility room to die of exposure, insisting it is not the same as "infanticide", ignoring the fact that a trip to the PICU would save their life).

This is not "choice": This is deliberate killing of an innocent life for the sake of the mother.

Next step? Well, if you believe Peter Singer and Joseph Fletcher, you can chose infanticde: And if you believe Joseph Fletcher and other "bioethicists" you can do this up to age 2.  And logically, it means soon you can extend this to anyone who doesn't meet the criteria for "personhood", i.e. the mentally ill, the mentally retarded the senile, etc.

This is the "slippery slope" argument and you aren't supposed to use it when you argue against these things. The problem, of course, is that we see this happening in front of our eyes.

And not just in PC states, as the Texas "futile care" bill shows: You can let grandmom die of neglect if the docs say caring for her is a waste of money.

So the Alabama and similar bills are a push back to this idea.

No, it won't stop the Supreme court from throwing the law out.
But it will remind people that abortion is not a simple ethics free procedure, but the taking of a life, and they will not be silent when you do this.

And maybe all the Hollywood hysteria is about shouting to cover a guilty conscience?