Edmund Schweppe (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edschweppe) wrote2022-06-24 07:34 pm
edschweppe) wrote2022-06-24 07:34 pm
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The obvious topic for today
Today's huge political story, of course, is that the Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade, ruling 5 to 4 in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization that the United States Constitution does not "confer the right to an abortion" (and ruling 6-3 that the Mississippi state law being challenged was in fact constitutional).
There's not a whole lot for me to add right now, save perhaps that I both vehemently disagree with the result and greatly fear that this Supreme Court is both (a) corrupt and (b) not going to stop with abortion. And I'm not at all surprised that my Twitter, Farcebook, Discord, etc. feeds are basically aflame with anger at the decision. One thing I have seen that I didn't expect, though, was just how much of an outcry against Dobbs I'm seeing on LinkedIn. That's usually almost completely apolitical. However, there are a lot of professionals and business leaders who are crying foul. I'm (slightly) more hopeful that the Christian Dominionists and White Nationalists will find their victory Pyrrhic.
There's not a whole lot for me to add right now, save perhaps that I both vehemently disagree with the result and greatly fear that this Supreme Court is both (a) corrupt and (b) not going to stop with abortion. And I'm not at all surprised that my Twitter, Farcebook, Discord, etc. feeds are basically aflame with anger at the decision. One thing I have seen that I didn't expect, though, was just how much of an outcry against Dobbs I'm seeing on LinkedIn. That's usually almost completely apolitical. However, there are a lot of professionals and business leaders who are crying foul. I'm (slightly) more hopeful that the Christian Dominionists and White Nationalists will find their victory Pyrrhic.