Avoiding National Embarrassment

IN MANY CONSERVATIVE, southern, disunited states, state legislatures have passed laws greatly restricting abortion rights, and every one of these laws is clearly unconstitutional. The question is:"why"? Why pass the unpassable?  Strangely enough, many, if not most of the conservative legislators who promulgated this lunacy know damned good and well that they are indeed unconstitutional, you have to hope so. they aint stupid, are they?

They acted out of sheer spite. Roe vs Wade allows abortions until fetal viability, which is defined as the end of the second trimester. Conservatives have always regarded roe v wade, perhaps properly so, the epitome of barbarity, and gleefully remind us over and over again, to vindicate their disgust, that since january 1973 fifty million american babies have been murdered.

Still unsatisfied, they have flouted the constitution, state by erring state. Arkansas, as southern conservative as they come, has outlawed abortions beyond the first trimester! A federal judge has alrady set this ludicrous law aside, essentially saying that since it will never pass constitutional muster, why bother?

All these new state anti-abortion laws will eventually work their way through the appellate courts, will be struck down, and at last one of them will be decided by the supreme court, thus deciding them all.

The current high court, though at least half conservative, will almost certainly uphold the appellate courts in strinking down these laws, because really it has no choice, so certian is their blatant unconstitutionality. the vote might even be something other than five four; surely at least one conservative justice will come to his or her senses, as they sometimes do, and must in this instance.

But again, you never know. it aint over, until...whenever...you never know when, where, and how inanely the murky vicissitudes of conservative thought will take this great nation of diverse ideals.

Another case in point: the U.S. house of representatives recently repealed obamacare, if you can believe it, which perhaps you cannot. the senseless, useless futility of this spiteful group temper tantrum is reflected in the fact that nobody noticed it, nobody cares, and the vote was only briefly mentioned in the media, not because of any liberal media bias, but because our discerning media mercifully wishes to avoid national embarrassment before the entire world. <whew>

But pouty, juvenile , vindictive behavior never entirely fades from the human psyche, even in advanced, alleged adulthood. I plan to use the following excuse: our country is young, and is still learning, as are our political leaders. That sometimes worked when I was in trouble as a child, and maybe it will this time. One can hope.