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The Abortion Argument at SCOTUS: A Thought

  What kind of blogger would I be if I didn't have a thought about this subject? In my case the arguments on abortion before the Supreme Court last week sent me back, not to 1973, but to 1992.    It is worthwhile to note that 2021 this isn’t the first time  Roe  has seemed on the verge of demise. In 1992, after two Republican presidents over twelve years had made five Supreme Court appointments, there was a widespread expectation that the Court’s decision that year in  Planned Parenthood v. Casey  would overturn it. After all, both Reagan and Bush the elder had made a point of seeking jurists who would overturn Roe v. Wade .  A friend of mine was working for what one may call a junk mail processer at the time. He tells me that among the items of mail they processed was a call for donations from a pro-abortion rights group. The letter began, "The Supreme Court has just eliminated the constitutional protection for...." It asked for the money to figh...