It is hard in the now times to decide which issue takes precedence in my mind.
Let’s rank them, shall we?
- no abortion for dying patients.
This is what the 5th Circuit Appeals Court shouted at all of us near the end of 2023. In their ruling, Texas doctors are not obliged to perform abortions. At all. Not even if the woman is dying. Not even if the fetus is dying. News flash, if the mother dies while carrying the fetus, they both die. Did someone flunk biology?
This makes me so mad for women in Texas. Also, this is Supreme Court bait that will be appealed to the Supreme Court. This might make it the law in the land, especially in those states that do not have provisions for care of a dying mother because what is killing her IS THE PREGNANCY.
Yeah, there is a story in the New Yorker about a young mother who was excited to be pregnant, and wanted the pregnancy but being pregnant ultimately killed her. And the baby. Because they are linked. Do people not understand that?
2. war is contagious and spreading. More evil has been done in the name of a holy being than ever conceived before. Or, in the case of Ukraine, in the imagined getting the band back together sentiment of the Russian leader. And the band, in this case, is the USSR. I can’t imagine that people don’t understand that Ukraine is only the first step. And the first war.
3. Covid is actively killing people again. Not that it ever stopped. But the newest variant, the JN.1 variant, has gone from 14% of cases to over 60% of cases in less than a month. I have also read reports that it is more contagious even. You know that covid has been bashing at the bars of the vaccine for a while now. Someday it will find the key to ignoring vaccination entirely.
Speaking of covid, some towns are whining that they are running out of supplies. This after most Americans gave a cold should shrug to giving money to efforts to stop and contain covid. We are too interested in going back to how it used to be. Not gonna happen, there is no going back. There is whining, though, because we as a society don’t give enough forethought to things we don’t like.
Lots of things are top of mind today. But those are the main ones.
Not the least of which is the winter storm that is currently battering the Southeast.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 