Congratulations, it's a judge!

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Our thoughts go out to America, pacing anxiously up and down the delivery room, awaiting the news of the new arrival to its Supreme Court. Anti-abortion, and with the religious right in the wings champing at the bit for someone to finally for God's sake get in there and overturn the whole Roe/Wade thing, Judge Samuel Alito (“if” nominated) will be a weighty enough presence to tip the balance in favour of God and the sanctity of life and all that other great stuff that’s right there in the Constitution.*

(* It’s not in the Constitution.)

Let’s face it, in a situation like this, there can only be one winner—BABIES! So there’s bound to be a million social programmes being planned by conservatives to make sure all these extra mouths have got something to be fed, right? Lots of housing initiatives for all those hot wailing little bodies, hmm? I mean, you wouldn’t go to all that trouble to reclaim the state’s rights over a woman’s body in the name of your vicious God and confirm America's regression to the Dark Ages without making some kind of provision for the sheer jump in numbers that would result, would you? It’s not just the unborn you care about, is it? Course not. Cradle to the grave, that’s conservatism all the way. No Foetus Left Behind, right?

(Still, just in case, we could do worse than investing in American private prisons right now, so long as we’re prepared for the long haul. Around thirty years ought to do it.)

Mazel tov!

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[Note: This entry is of course written in jest, even a spirit of hopeful optimism. After all, this administration isn't really likely to detonate the whole abortion issue by appointing this man to the Supreme Court, and even if they do, he's surely not likely to bring matters to a head, and even if he does, he's surely not likely to succeed, and if he does... well, is adoption so bad, girls?]

[I'm serious. Prisons. Buy early.]

Comments

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

I understand that this is necessary in order for the USA to become a net exporter of babies by 2025. Currently they are importing babies from China/Romania, and they can't let that continue.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit confused by this Alito guy. He's being pitched as an ultra-conservative, but it's by no means clear he's ever expressed a desire to overturn Roe v. Wade. However, the Dems seem convinced, in a way they did not about John Roberts, that this chap is Real Trouble. I shall have to find out more.

BBC have a profile of him here, which doesn't exactly make him sound like Pat Robertson.

I was particularly amused by:
ACLU v Schundler, 1998; he ruled that a public display of a creche and menorah did not violate prohibitions on government endorsement of religion because it also included non-religious symbols including Frosty the Snowman.