Author: Crowhill Report

The wise council of elders invested in a next-gen nuclear plant to actually (really, no, we’re not kidding or playing games) cut their reliance on fossil fuels. Once this plant comes online they will be able to safely and affordably wean the city off oil and natural gas, without causing any price disruptions.

That’s what I wanted to say in response to a post on LinkedIn where somebody is praising some dumb jurisdiction that’s investing in solar power. The trouble is that LinkedIn (like most social media) is full of liberals, and while you can always tell a liberal, it’s usually wise not to. Wherever you find lots of liberals, you will find lots of intolerant, unthoughtful, unreflective, narrow-minded people. It’s best to just be polite and leave them to their fantasies.

… without checking it first. The left absolutely hates female and black conservatives and will slander them at any opportunity.

NBC news says “Justice Thomas cites debunked claim that Covid vaccines are made with cells from ‘aborted children’. Thomas cited the claims in a dissent to the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up a challenge by health care workers who opposed New York’s vaccine mandate on religious grounds.”

They want you to believe that Thomas believes this allegedly debunked claim. “In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas expressed support Thursday for a debunked claim that all Covid vaccines are made with cells from “aborted children.”

Here is the relevant text.

Petitioners are 16 healthcare workers who served New York communities throughout the COVID–19 pandemic. They object on religious grounds to all available COVID–19 vaccines because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children.

It seems to me that Thomas is simply citing a claim made by the petitioners. Also, it’s not entirely clear to me that the claim has been debunked. It seems that cell lines that originated with aborted children may have been used in testing.

Whether you think that is a serious moral issue is your own business.

The media, however, is garbage.

241: Abortion, Roe, Casey, and Dobbs

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This is from the dissent in Dobbs.

The ability of women to participate equally” in the “life of the Nation” — in all its economic, social, political, and legal aspects — “has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.” … Without the ability to decide whether and when to have children, women could not — in the way men took for granted — determine how they would live their lives, and how they would contribute to the society around them.

This is part of their argument against originalism. The idea is that women were not considered equal members of society (either at the ratification of the constitution or at the passage of the 14th amendment), so decisions affecting women from back then can’t be applied today — when women are equal members of society.

It’s an interesting point, although there is a counter-argument.

Do men really control their reproductive lives?

It’s clear that a man’s involvement in reproduction is not as intense or consequential as a woman’s. I don’t mean to pretend they are the same. They are clearly not. But does a man have any rights?

What if a man wants to have children, but his wife keeps having abortions? Does the man have any say in that? If not, what are his “reproductive rights”?

What if a man does not want to have more children, but his wife has an affair and gets pregnant. The husband is legally the parent of that child. Does he have any say in that? What are his “reproductive rights” in that case?

I’m not a lawyer, nor an expert on Supreme Court decisions, but I’ve read my share of court decisions over the years, and Alito knocks it out of the park on this one. It’s masterful. I expect law students will be reading this one for decades to come.