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Anonymous wrote:Tests are stupid and useless only if your kid did poorly.
Not so. I did extremely well on the SAT, but always thought that testing for obscure words that were hardly ever used was just silly. Apparently the College Board agreed because they eventually dropped it. Tests are just tools created by people. I think a healthy skepticism towards standardized tests is a good thing, while recognizing that they can be one useful measure of college preparedness.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: This is not something I thought I would ever actually see.
Kudos to the SCOTUS on this. Always should have been up to the states.
But why exactly? I'm just looking for the rationale why it should be a state decision and not a federal one. I can't have children anymore so just curious for the next generation.
There is no Constitutional right to an abortion. The Constitution enshrines a very small number of fundamental enumerated and unenumerated rights. It doesn’t protect everything that’s good.
In the midst of a massive social and political fight over abortion, Roe and Casey created an obvious fiction: a Constitutional right to “privacy” that included a right to abortion. This removed the issue from the usual political process, and did irreparable damage to the Court and the country. Suddenly the Court was a 100% political institution.
Today’s decision delivers the issue back to the political process, where it always should have been. I am basically pro choice. I also recognize that someone isn’t crazy, or a bigot or a woman hater, if they really feel like aborting a fetus (particularly one that is viable, can feel pain, etc.) is murder or something close to it. It’s a complicated issue. There is going to have to be a compromise that leaves both sides unhappy. And the debate will continue, people will make arguments, mobilize votes. That’s what’s supposed to happen on hotly contested policy questions in a democracy.
There are many things that should not be decided by popular vote, even in a democracy and whether someone is forced to use their body to provide life to another person (this is conceding that a fetus is a human being) is one of them. What next? If it’s determined that my bone marrow can save someone’s child, can I be compelled to give marrow to save the child if I don’t want to?