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Arkansas Granny
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May 12, 2022
The Horrifying Implications of Alito's Most Alarming Footnote
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/the-alarming-implications-of-alitos-domestic-supply-of-infants-footnote.html
One of the most arresting lines in Justice Samuel Alitos 98-page draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade is a footnote that didnt really surface until the weekend. A throwaway footnote on Page 34 of the draft cites data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that in 2002, nearly 1 million women were seeking to adopt children, whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to be adopted has become virtually nonexistent. In response to the outrage and some misinformation, the conservative legal industrial complex went to great lengths to downplay it as a trivial footnote in a draft opinion, and to insist that Alito was citing the CDC and not himself and that the note appears in a roundup of people are sayingtype arguments against abortion.
True. But the footnote reflects something profoundly wrong with the new ethos of care arguments advanced by Republicans who want to emphasize compassion instead of cruelty after the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health fallout. Footnote 46, quantifying the supply/demand mismatch of babies, follows directly on another footnote in the opinion approvingly citing the logic raised at oral argument in December by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who mused that there is no meaningful hardship in conscripting women to remain pregnant and deliver babies in 2022 because safe haven laws allow them to drop those unwanted babies off at the fire station for other parents to adopt.
Second only to the creeping chatter of state birth control bans, the speedy pivot to celebrating forced birth and adoption is chilling. Its chilling not just because it discounts the extortionate emotional and financial costs of childbirth and the increased medical risks of forced childbirth. Its chilling because it lifts us out of a discussion about privacy and bodily autonomy and into a regime in which babies are a commodity and pregnant people are vessels in which to incubate them. If this sounds like a familiar, albeit noxious, economic concept, its because it is.
One of the most arresting lines in Justice Samuel Alitos 98-page draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade is a footnote that didnt really surface until the weekend. A throwaway footnote on Page 34 of the draft cites data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that in 2002, nearly 1 million women were seeking to adopt children, whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to be adopted has become virtually nonexistent. In response to the outrage and some misinformation, the conservative legal industrial complex went to great lengths to downplay it as a trivial footnote in a draft opinion, and to insist that Alito was citing the CDC and not himself and that the note appears in a roundup of people are sayingtype arguments against abortion.
True. But the footnote reflects something profoundly wrong with the new ethos of care arguments advanced by Republicans who want to emphasize compassion instead of cruelty after the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health fallout. Footnote 46, quantifying the supply/demand mismatch of babies, follows directly on another footnote in the opinion approvingly citing the logic raised at oral argument in December by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who mused that there is no meaningful hardship in conscripting women to remain pregnant and deliver babies in 2022 because safe haven laws allow them to drop those unwanted babies off at the fire station for other parents to adopt.
Second only to the creeping chatter of state birth control bans, the speedy pivot to celebrating forced birth and adoption is chilling. Its chilling not just because it discounts the extortionate emotional and financial costs of childbirth and the increased medical risks of forced childbirth. Its chilling because it lifts us out of a discussion about privacy and bodily autonomy and into a regime in which babies are a commodity and pregnant people are vessels in which to incubate them. If this sounds like a familiar, albeit noxious, economic concept, its because it is.
May 10, 2022
https://twitter.com/TraceyDelaney/status/1522756925091418113/photo/1?
Here's a little creative thinking.
https://twitter.com/TraceyDelaney/status/1522756925091418113?s=20&t=6GAjj1Wk9-H38sRsTiuUmQhttps://twitter.com/TraceyDelaney/status/1522756925091418113/photo/1?
May 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/realchrisgunter/status/1522948644441309187/photo/1?
I could get behind this.
https://twitter.com/realchrisgunter/status/1522948644441309187?t=tah7whM3tli-iSzE5vCa3A&s=19https://twitter.com/realchrisgunter/status/1522948644441309187/photo/1?
May 8, 2022
Stonekettle
@Stonekettle
If you lie on your resume to get a job, you get fired. Sometimes there is legal action as well But if you lie to Congress and the American people to get appointed to SCOTUS, you get to decide what Americans can do with their bodies, who they can marry, and who gets civil rights
11:06 AM · May 8, 2022
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If you lie on your resume. . .
https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1523333458281611266?t=VtwQ_CEDKxN5Fg8Xk4K3cQ&s=19Stonekettle
@Stonekettle
If you lie on your resume to get a job, you get fired. Sometimes there is legal action as well But if you lie to Congress and the American people to get appointed to SCOTUS, you get to decide what Americans can do with their bodies, who they can marry, and who gets civil rights
11:06 AM · May 8, 2022
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May 5, 2022
https://twitter.com/chipdugless/status/1522226956330274820/photo/1?
I've seen other versions of this posted before, but it bears repeating.
https://twitter.com/chipdugless/status/1522226956330274820?s=20&t=C8nk1Q2zuaxsrdVpoioyHAhttps://twitter.com/chipdugless/status/1522226956330274820/photo/1?
May 4, 2022
Fifty two years ago today: Kent State
May 4, 2022
https://twitter.com/calijo77/status/1521857472427745281/photo/1?
If it was about babies . . .
https://twitter.com/calijo77/status/1521857472427745281?s=20&t=xfpd59ZMcMv3yy7LSb69Qghttps://twitter.com/calijo77/status/1521857472427745281/photo/1?
May 2, 2022
Shiv Ramdas Traing To Rite Buk
@nameshiv
you are star stuff that's taken corporeal form on a rock hurting round a ball of nuclear fire in a cosmic ocean of infinity until the day your form is no longer corporeal and the stars welcome you back home again, so stop ruining your experience by watching cable news now ffs
6:09 AM · May 2, 2022
You are star stuff.
https://twitter.com/nameshiv/status/1521084362032173057?t=_97vPtVPe5ihZhbL37mJFQ&s=19Shiv Ramdas Traing To Rite Buk
@nameshiv
you are star stuff that's taken corporeal form on a rock hurting round a ball of nuclear fire in a cosmic ocean of infinity until the day your form is no longer corporeal and the stars welcome you back home again, so stop ruining your experience by watching cable news now ffs
6:09 AM · May 2, 2022
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