roe_v_wade amy in red My ancestors, the ornery cusses, wanted a roe to exist but were not totally sure that it shouldn't be a wade to exist. And of course, i am here for the ancestors! I want to liberate everybody! (Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily!) 150718 ... amy in blue red (I'm not actually sure that's the actual answer but that was the desire of the ancestors) 150718 ... amy in blue As time heals wounds, the question of "this shouldn't have happened" becomes moot--- I do think my point about my ancestors is correct, though. to add drama and color, you call it dying_on_the_vine. but wow did i just get chilled to the bone by the doucumentary "The Thin Blue Line". Henry Wade was the longest serving D.A. in US history. You must see the film about a wrongfully convicted man sentenced to death row for the murder of a police officer. According to the wikipedia page on Henry Wade: As of July, 2008, fifteen persons convicted during Wade's term as Dallas County District Attorney have been exonerated of the crimes for which they were accused in light of new DNA evidence. Because of the culture of the department to "convict at all costs," it is suspected that more innocent people have been falsely imprisoned or even executed.[7] Project Innocence Texas currently has more than 250 cases under examination. I'm never going to hear the name Wade in the same way again. There's a lot there, isn't there? incidentally, and this is also somewhat moot, it was the name of our former next door neighbor in this insulated subdivision that i know as home. My brain just got totally woahed- i had been assigning a symbolic force when it actually shoulda been a history- changes things. gives a perspective i did not have, in all seriousness, at all. 150718 ... raze i don't even know what to say today. i guess i always knew a few rich, narrow-minded, toxic assholes in suits could undo centuries of work that went into protecting people's basic human rights just by snapping their fat, filthy fingers. but all of this is so sad. and infuriating. and horrifying. fuck. 220624 ... raze (not trying to start a thing here. i don't usually weigh in on stuff like this. i just kind of feel like we've been thrown back into the dark ages today, and it's disconcerting.) 220624 ... nr this absolutely deserves to be a started-up thing. it's just insane and dystopian and, like you said, back to the dark ages. 220625 ... kerry it's getting to the point where nothing surprises me anymore. i was doing a therapy session while a protest was taking place outside city hall, which is about a block from my office. it was hard to be present with these people arguing about whether or not they should get a lie detector test to figure out who cheated on who. 220625 ... epitome of incomprehensibility And here I'd thought that the U.S. had gotten through the Trump years without a large-scale terrible thing happening, as many people had feared (the tagline of the blog We Hunted the Mammoth during that time was "Surviving the Trumpocalypse" - tongue only partly in cheek). I mean he's only indirectly responsible here, by appointing those judges, but still. This is already making so many people's lives harder. I don't think it's fair to put potential people above actual ones, even if sincere conviction about not ending life is behind some of the impetus to ban abortion (still, "pro-life" is disingenuous, as the pro-ness is usually inconsistently applied). Plus, you see plenty of vengeful gotcha-ism, blatant misogyny, etc. Some of my thoughts about this are in dream_conversations, so I won't blather TOO much here. Except that it's also frustrating how the process seems so undemocratic. Most Americans did not want to overturn this ruling. Not that a majority couldn't decide on something unfair. The question of what sort of powers to grant government is a tough one. But this feels like not just a step, but a leap in the wrong direction. My country isn't immune to similar - Bill 21 is one that I think of easily (see against_bill_21 for context). 220625 ... raze i just ... i don't understand how this happens. i mean, the rational part of my brain gets it. but the whole idea of a small group of amoral, blatantly dishonest, self-involved people in positions of power making decisions that have far-reaching and potentially fatal consequences, driven only by their own interests and biases, safe in the knowledge that they aren't going to be touched by any of it ... the whole thing will never stop feeling wrong to me on a fundamental level. it makes me want to scream, for all the good it would do. 220626 ... past a friend once said that it's a really bad sign that things are falling apart if you aren't in the field and you know the names of, say, supreme court justices or the head of the national bank (or equivalent). i don't know the name of any canadian supreme court judges, just that they dress like santa and have an owl mascot, but i could probably name all 9 american judges. that said, i am worried that people here are looking there and seeing a path to overturn morgentaler (not that access is in anyway equitable, with some provinces doing backdoor bans, and some regions unserved entirely). when i used to teach cultural geography, i'd say the humanities are important because we seemed to be approaching a pivot point and we need to be able to imagine and assess different futures. i really don't like living through the pivot and not knowing where the second foot will land. 220626 what's it to you? who go blather from