I began my career as a contract IT guy with a job for the local Planned Parenthood, their first political database. The choice wasn’t accidental on my part, and I regret that I’ve deteriorated to the point where all I can give them is an occasional few bucks. What they give back, directly to the entire female population of America and indirectly to the rest of us, can’t be overestimated: how much is control of one’s life worth to every woman who, without Planned Parenthood, might very well not have that control? IMHO it’s priceless, and the irony is that there is an army of anti-choice, anti-contraception activists (that’s too polite a term, but hey, I’ve already cut loose my profanity for the day) trying relentlessly to deprive them of that control.
My first thought was that the ruling would have gone the same way if Scalia were alive, only 5-4. My second thought was no, Scali-wag would have browbeaten Kennedy into voting against women’s interests, not for the first time. I hope the Devil provided Antonin, invisible, with a ringside seat to the debate.
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