Reply #21: The Supreme Court is not about "politics" and bargaining.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Roberts is 50 years old and will be appointed for his lifetime. I say "will be" because that is probably the case.

That is where we part company.

You rather blithely say that "if abortion isn't federally protected, it's not federally protected." As if removing that protection will have no effect.

"Only decades of extreme rhetoric could equate abortion (I assume you mean abortion 'rights") with personhood." Perhaps you're right. A woman could be forced to give birth and still find a way to lead an acceptable life. Some slaves liked being slaves and found it acceptable. Which is hardly an argument for chattel slavery or the slavery of women to their own bodies.

If staying "grounded in reality" means surrendering to slavery for women in the name of politics and being nice to those who embrace the concept that it's just politics, I regret to inform you that I will have none of it.

"Armegeddon" for you or me? Not likely seeing as I'm male. But, for a woman being forced to resort to a knitting-needle or being forced to give birth, I think that would qualify as "Armageddon".

Feel free to count me among "our wingnuts".