The Smiley Guy vs. Abortion Rights

Beware of nice guys.

Chief Justice John Roberts bugs me.

Out of all the judges, he's the most smiley.  He wants to be Mr. Nice Guy.

But really, he's taking away our right to end a pregnancy, to determine how many of us will live the next 8 months of our lives, how we will define ourselves for sixty years.  

What's between us and God, he thinks should be up to him.  

Justice Roberts, can't you be just plain mean like Samuel Alito?  Or Clarence Thomas? 

Or just a raving hypocrite like Brett Kavanaugh?    

That way the country could see through you more easily.

It was astounding to hear you question the lawyers.  Listen to it on YouTube.

"Why is 15 weeks not enough time?" you asked. 

The sheer masculine innocence of that question!

As if hesitating to end a pregnancy were like vaccine hesitancy.  Just get over it, my dears.  Make up your minds. You've got 15 weeks.

13 weeks, actually, since the day you had sex.  

11 weeks from the day your bleeding should have happened.  

7 weeks from the time your period was a month late but you didn't feel pregnant.  

3 weeks from the day your period was two months late and you realized that ohmygod you might really be preggers!  But it couldn't be true.  

Justice Roberts, bless his heart, now gives you three weeks to go through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and come to a screeching halt at acceptance that you are actually pregnant.

No, just two weeks to go through those five stages because you still need a week figure out whether to let the pregnancy continue or to end it.  

If you decide you just can't possibly bring a human being into this world and have the strength and sanity and money to take care of him or her, and you certainly couldn't give a baby away to who-knows-what kind of parents, now you have no weeks left to find a Planned Parenthood Clinic.

You may have no money to drive to a clinic 4-5 hours from your home.  Maybe you have no car.

Maybe you need child care for your kids while you spend a day or two getting the job done.  Or maybe you can't take time off from work.  

But don't worry about this, dear, because you've already used up your 15 weeks.  Your life is now in the hands of that smiley guy Roberts and that liar Kavanaugh.  And Alioto and Thomas and Gorsuch.  And of course Amy Coney Barrett, who thinks that handing a baby over to strangers should be easy as pie.  

The government of Mississippi has decided 15 weeks should be enough for you, and the justices will probably agree with them.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor fights for justice
as Senator Elizabeth Warren looks grimly on.

Of course, the US government gives years to American citizens who have vaccination hesitancy, who just can't quite bring themselves to face that needle.    

For abortion hesitancy, however, there's no tolerance.  15 weeks, sweetie.  Get over it.