Anyone make a beard joke yet?

Roe lies at the center of the bitter polarization of much of American society.
And overturning the decision would make this better how?

Because then the Jeebus states could ban abortion and the Hillary states could erase even the post-Casey restrictions? I guess?

I grew up in the pre-legal abortion era and know just how easy it was for my friend to get an abortion. I don't think the pratice will change one way or another regardless of what the SCOTUS says. I'm more interested in things like that Kelco, 1st and 2nd Amendment rights be reinstated.

Don't get me wrong, Roe was bad law. I think the least talked about group in this fight are Pro-choicers that want it repealed.

But doing the right thing does nothing more than do the right thing. The animousity will increase, and probably galvanize.

not only that, but the animosity will increase as well.

"I think the least talked about group in this fight are Pro-choicers that want it repealed."

I'll gladly talk about that group, because I'm in it. And nothing is more fun to talk about than oneself.

The animosity might increase in the short-run, but ... avoidance of animosity is not the only concern, goal, or guiding principle.

Whatsisname, the Slate guy, name escapes me for the moment, who wrote "Bearing Right" (wasn't Kinsley, can't remember which one), isn't necessarily in the pro-choice anti-Roe camp, but he certainly sees the writing on the wall. The pro-choice position is currently resting on untenable ground.

It's the Sword of Damocles hanging over the pro-choicers' head - repeal Roe and, short of a Federal Life Amendment, the blue areas will still get to abort away, 24/7. That's where the organs of liberal animosity are, so the effect might not be as strong as you'd think.

I think such an amendment will never be, at least within the 40-year horizon. After that all bets are off - two whole new generations of people will be walking around, and, more to the point, voting (and serving in Congress).

When the far right realizes that Alito wrote passionately in defense of privacy OVER govt reg of sexuality (even of sodomy, homo. sex, etc.), they might get all worked-up as they did against Miers.

Unless they decide he was young then, and can be forgiven.

When the far right realizes that Alito wrote passionately in defense of privacy OVER govt reg of sexuality..

Why?

Knemon:
avoidance of animosity is not the only concern, goal, or guiding principle
Fo' sho', I'm not sure it should be any concern at all.

What I think is that, as things stand right now, we have riots demonstrating the folly of progressive programs in France, a slowly emerging (for some) awareness of the threat of Islamic fundies, and the very slow swing of the pendulum back toward traditionalism.

Interesting times.