Two Star

The archives are back, and there was much rejoicing throughout the land. Yay.

In case you haven't been around your favorite news source lately, today is the 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the legal decision that made abortion legal in the United States.

And to celebrate, dedicated soldiers on both sides of the issue traveled to Washington D.C., a town already nursing the hangover from the antiwar rallies on Saturday. Marching like good troopers not wanting to give up the battlefield, they converged on each other in front of the Supreme Court, the biggest symbol in a day full of tokens and icons.

I was thinking about writing something about the occasion, but four things pulled me back to earth.

1) Mark Morford wrote most of what I was going to say.

2) Abortion is one of those topics, like the Death Penalty, where the majority of people have not only made up their minds, but they're adamant about it...so, why bother writing another thing about it? At this point, unless your trying to bridge the chasm between the sides, it's just preaching to the choir or adding fuel to the fire.

3) Referring back to Morford, abortion has always been around. Making abortion illegal again in the United States is going to just underground the whole damn thing. Abortions will still continue, but the anti-abortion folks will be sitting self-satisfied with their little victory. Don't bother helping out scared pregnant girls with pre-emptive, secular and accurate sex education or even try to give women the dignity of making a choice about their bodies. Hell, forget about helping a mother that's down on her luck and with a newborn child in this economy. Just do everything to protect that fetus.

4) I'm a male, and frankly, we - as a gender - should shut the hell up about it. It's a woman's choice. She has to live with the outcome. I'm pretty positive that no woman in the history of abortion has hopped-skipped-and-jumped to an abortion provider, just giddy at the thought of what's coming next. Women know what abortion is, and they don’t need some lunkhead with a cross telling her she’s going to hell. I don’t think that’s what Jesus would do.

I have no idea what's on the horizon with abortion in the United States. Personally, I think if it is made illegal, we have the ingredients for a Second Civil War brewing up nicely.

Whatever happens, it shows that "1984" isn't the only book on our Isn't It Ironic That It's Happening Just Like In That Novel reading list. Now, we have to dust off "The Handmaid's Tale," too.

Today's Word: Tarnish

From One Word

A corrosion. That whisper you shouldn’t have made to that certain someone who isn’t your lawfully wedded spouse. Oh yes, I knew her, and she knew me. I suppose we were adults, but we acted like children, not knowing the good things we had with our respective lovers. Desire is poison in the wrong hands.