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May 6, 2022Liked by Virgil

Well written, and a good read (as always). I have had a lengthy conversation about this with a good friend who is a circuit court judge, and a pro choice female. I think she would agree almost word for word with your assessment. Her basic stance on R v. W, is that the court shouldn't have heard this case to begin with. I can't remember her well articulated reasoning for that opinion (I'm blaming old age & bourbon)...but it was a very interesting conversation.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Virgil

Excellent as always. It’s such an incredibly difficult problem in some ways, and also weirdly simple in others.

What I can’t get my head around are the avatars of absolute evil who *celebrate* actual abortions - not abortions from a theoretical or abstract perspective, but actual instances of abortion in their lives and in other peoples’ - as if they’re some miracle. I don’t know how many people are doing this in reality, really, but there are a fair number on the Twitter and appearing on TV and in print occasionally who are so damn loud and proud about it…and those people are monsters.

Demons.

As a parent, and really just as a thinking, feeling human being, I know that much. And every time I see one of those people shrieking out their lungs or wearing their “I’ve had 21 abortions” t-shirt or having a goddamn cake and a party on the anniversary of their own first abortion…it drives me further to the other side of the debate.

So maybe plastering the left’s reaction to this leak incident and SC opinion all over the media will be a boon to the GOP in November. I don’t know.

But thanks again for writing.

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